I don't agree. I hate the criminal act nonsense with necromancer because you'll get flagged for casting a skill on accident.

Example: Talking to a vendor, pressing B button (xbox) to exit the conversation, the game lags, and you accidentally pull out a skeleton summon that was assigned to the B button and are flagged a criminal.

Not to mention the instances where someone from a quest attacks you in a town/public area. Wish I could actually disable the criminal act (like you can with attacking innocents).

Don’t forget to have guards attack you if you approach them with your sword drawn... cause that was so much fun two decades ago in Everquest.

Also, players have to avoid guards in opposing faction cities or get sent to jail.

Finally, add non-consensual PvP to everywhere in the game, but give players who attack other non criminals a bounty!

Do these all sound like terrible ideas? Yes, I think so too, and so do the ideas from the OP. Every criminal system should have a risk/reward mechanic.

jediodyn_ESO wrote: »

Don’t forget to have guards attack you if you approach them with your sword drawn... cause that was so much fun two decades ago in Everquest.

Also, players have to avoid guards in opposing faction cities or get sent to jail.

Finally, add non-consensual PvP to everywhere in the game, but give players who attack other non criminals a bounty!

Do these all sound like terrible ideas? Yes, I think so too, and so do the ideas from the OP. Every criminal system should have a risk/reward mechanic.

Guards didn't attack you in Everquest for having a sword drawn. That LITERALLY never happened. You literally must have been auto attacking and targeted one. Stop acting like immersion is bad. As a necro main, it really makes the class feel alive to me.

You should not be able to run around in town as a werewolf. period. it should have been criminal when the game first came out.

Dusk_Coven wrote: »

Now that the mechanic for Criminal Act skills are in place, I feel the following should be changed to also be Criminal Acts:
Vampire - Drain Essence, Blood Ritual (although theoretically it would be moot as the shrines are at secret locations)
Werewolf - Werewolf Transformation, Devour (when used on men or mer)

@ZOS_RobGarrett

Curse you! You beat me to it! LOL!

You already get a bounty if you feed on someone as a Vampire.

You can just drink Double Bloody Mara to avoid feeding.

If there going to make Vampire ability's a criminal action, how about adding some more useful skills first. Other than the Bat swarm healing ult I never see a reason to slot the other two ability's, instead of class or weapon ability's that I already have to choose from and never see a reason to use any of the vampire ability's in towns at all.

At least give Vampires a spam-able attack ability.


As for WW, I think the WW transformation at the least should get you a bounty in towns like the Necro Goliath ults.

Vamp Drain and vamp feeding are already criminal acts. Use it on a yellow attackable NPC in front of a guard and you'll get bounty and attacked by the guard.