Been there, thought about it... (and other stuff too)Nemesis7884 wrote: »All this talk of ...crossbows... in the prologue...
can we please have cross bows added to the game as weapons?
Like a... "magical martial arts" skill line? Or like dual-wiending runes to cast magic from your hands? See above for an idea on those!If stam gets crossbow, mag should get flame, frost, and lighting gauntlets
And thus it would make more snese to add "crossbows" as alternate weapon choice... and give magica characters more options to play with in terms of skill lines and weaponry. See above!Grianasteri wrote: »However as I have commented elsewhere, and will continue to do so, stamina does NOT need another skill line. Magica does.
And yeah, that was my general premise... though with the realism in moderation.Let's introduce crossbows with a realistic cast time of a couple of minutes, and see how everyone likes them.
But that is a single-hand "hunters surprise" pistol crossbow. Not the two-handed "marksman" crossbow we are all wanting!Kalik_Gold wrote: »Fighters guild has one, if you really want it.
In the same thread I keep referring to?Where are the spears?
TheShadowScout wrote: »And thus it would make more snese to add "crossbows" as alternate weapon choice... and give magica characters more options to play with in terms of skill lines and weaponry. See above!Grianasteri wrote: »However as I have commented elsewhere, and will continue to do so, stamina does NOT need another skill line. Magica does.
Darkstorne wrote: »
Two different arguments.Grianasteri wrote: »TheShadowScout wrote: »And thus it would make more snese to add "crossbows" as alternate weapon choice... and give magica characters more options to play with in terms of skill lines and weaponry. See above!Grianasteri wrote: »However as I have commented elsewhere, and will continue to do so, stamina does NOT need another skill line. Magica does.
That makes no sense to me.
You are agreeing that Magica needs more choice, but arguing give more choice by adding more Stamina weapons that Magica users can use?
Melee stamina, yeah. Three skill lines, with three or four options as to which weapon to pick up.Grianasteri wrote: »Stamina has numerous skill lines and weapon types.
Depends how you count it, but even at the worst magica has two weapon skill lines - destruction and restoration.Grianasteri wrote: »Magica has ONE skill line, with ONE weapon type.
Agreed. And thus... I made that other discussion I always link to:Grianasteri wrote: »Whichever way we look at matters, Magica is hugely lacking in variety with regards to "weapon" type.
My idea on that notion was to have those as alternate weapon for casting the very same destruction and restoration spells we currently use staves for... much like melee fighters get the choice between "sword or axe or mace (and sometimes dagger too)"; with the staves give a bit more range and those "Spell Foci" give a bit more damage (or some other effect)...Grianasteri wrote: »I believe a new Magica "weapon" skill line needs to be added, "Arcane Knowledge" or something, which allows the use of Tomes, Runes, Scrolls as Magica "weapons" each with different status effects - for arguments sake, fire, frost, shock.
We have wands already in ESO... in Shad Astula we explode chickens with one, and later have it moidded to do the same to scamps. Not a big step to go from there to blast other mobs too, right?Grianasteri wrote: »Of course what will happen is Zos will add a harry Potter wand skill line just to really pi55 me off.
...but why?Nemesis7884 wrote: »crossbows could easily have stamina and magicka morphs through different types of bolts you can use such as explosive bolts...