I'd love a tamer class. The three new Pokemon games: Aldmeri, Daggerfall and Ebonheart versions.


I'm only half joking, it'd be pretty cool. I'd love a zoo feature where you can just view all the creatures in the game without having to fight back.

I think something they might’ consider is a new upgrade alloy.
From gold to platinum for example, this would require new crafting skills to use.
And allow for gear upgrades without the grind for new and not induce more power creep

I would love to see a new upgrade tier. Crafting needs something new to keep it from getting too stale. Nothing new since summerset.

If runes or other magicka-based weapons are ever added, that could be another crafting system.

Jewel crafting was an obvious gap, in that there was an equipment category that the player used, but could not make. There aren't any more gaps to fill.

Spell-crafting doesn't fill a gap, as you don't have individual spells to acquire, only skill lines. The ones you use have morphs and so are effectively three spells in one, making a sensible crafting system almost impossible.

I think we're done with skills, but I could imagine something other than furnishings being added to each to extend its use. The outfits system was added without "extending" clothier, or blacksmith, and I suppose that could happen again, but I don't expect a new kind of crafting to be involved.

wishlist14 wrote: »

Im more than happy with the crafts we have.

This is a "what if" post for ideas for crafting. Why are you here?

In a text-based MUD/MMO I played back in the late 90's and early 00's - Darkness Falls: The Crusade (DFC) - that was the direct precursor for DAoC and, by proxy, a forefather for ESO (Matt Firor was on the production team), each realm had their own version of craftsmen which could craft armor and weapons, place runes on armor/weapons, and improve/repair the gear as it degraded with use.

In addition to this, the craftsmen of each realm had a unique skill line that set them apart from the other realms' craftsmen. Bear with me, but I'll get to the point eventually. The three realms were classified as Evil, Chaos, and Good.

Evil realm's craftsmen were a demon race belonging to the Cult (Guild) of Xionakis and their special ability was the capability to make the best siege ammo in the game. In DFC catapults and ballistas could be used for both PvP and PvE and enabled you to kill enemies in adjacent "rooms" - remember this was a text-based MUD, lol.

Chaos realm's craftsmen were the goblin race and their unique ability was crafting "bombs." These were essentially consumable items that were armed by casting a spell that allowed you to throw them at enemies. They detonated a second-ish later causing massive AoE damage to anyone in the room. Obviously, higher level, more complex bombs caused more damage but required more, and more costly materials.

Good realm had generically-named "Craftsmen" that could be created utilizing an assortment of humanoid races. Their unique ability was golem construction. These were basically constructable pets that required considerable resources to build and were animated, controlled, and de-animated by spells. Once animated they followed you around passively attacking any hostile enemies, or could be directed to attack specific enemies by typing in 'command golem attack <enemy>'. They had a finite number of hit points and I'm honestly drawing a blank on whether they could be repaired, healed by spells, or simply took damage until obliteration. Either way, I know that they could be destroyed and you'd lose all materials invested. There were 5 levels of golems with increasing defense, hit points, and damage dealt based on expertise in the craft. The material costs obviously increased with each level and crafting them required you to make two arms, two legs, a torso, a head and a heart (core). I want to say the golem levels were: straw, wood, steel, mithril, and diamond. You could deanimate the golem and carry it in your inventory when you didn't need to use it.

Obviously in ESO we wouldn't want to restrict a new crafting style to a single alliance, but two of these might make interesting candidates for game-wide implementation. Since ESO siege weapons do not require consumable ammo, that option is out, but some variant of explosive flasks that can be crafted might be an interesting skill line.

"Bombs" could be the poor man's version of spell crafting. You create consumable items that can be stacked like regular potions/poisons. A spell "throws" them with a delayed proc that telegraphs the AoE. These flasks could be made with various elemental damage, poison/disease, etc. Or apply status effects like defile, maim, etc. Or be instant damage, DoT, etc. If they become OP I guess you could implement some type of cooldown before another could be used.

Golems could be a way to introduce a "pet" to every class. Granted it would be a consumable and costly pet, but wouldn't require double-barring, would persist until destroyed or deanimated and put away, and could be based off main resource and not magicka specific. You could have differing types of golems too. AoE or single-target dps, AoE or single-target healers, or even a tank one that deals no dps but is a damage sponge and holds aggro until destroyed. Golem could "taunt" by the creator casting a command spell on the intended target.

Anyway... just some thoughts.

TL;DR - My two ideas are craftable, consumable "bombs" that can be thrown at enemies and craftable, consumable* golems that function as pets. *High hit points, but can ultimately be destroyed requiring you to craft another.