Faulgor wrote: »

Nemesis7884 wrote: »

Faulgor wrote: »

Why do people want a hybrid weapon when they aren't using hybrids right now?

What is this skill line supposed to accomplish?

just because a sword is involved doesnt mean physical damage...i think ppl just want a more melee focused magicka weapon with lower distance spells such as flame thrower, magicka buffs (buff your sword with elemental damage etc) and self buffs/shields etc.... basically the way a lot of people played Skyrim...which would fit a skyrim chapter

People have also been complaining that melee magicka (DK and Templar) sucks ever since release.

Don't get me wrong, spellsword playstyles sound like fun, but they don't work with ESO's current system, at all. We'd need much more substantial changes to get something like that going, just another skill line won't do.

While it's true we could use some more substantial changes for magicka-melee, it's not really accurate to suggest it doesn't work currently. Some players have definitely gotten it to work - myself included - and it makes for a distinctive, fun play style that can be quite a challenge sometimes. In a way, being able to recover magicka through heavy attacks would take away some of that challenge, but I'd rather have the option to be able to do that than not.

Faulgor wrote: »

Why do people want a hybrid weapon when they aren't using hybrids right now?

What is this skill line supposed to accomplish?

A magicka melee weapon line.

SilverIce58 wrote: »

Hotel6 wrote: »

idk if the engine can handle it. and i dont think zos will do that anytime soon even if it's possible.

The weapon line has been datamined. And why wouldnt the engine be able to handle it? Its just a weapon line.

Based on that datamined pictures both restoration staff and 1h+shield does not exist in the game. It was not skill line that was datamined it's just 1 icon in old file. I think people created way too much fuss around one random datamined picture without any context. It may be also old design for the game where 1h+rune was initial idea connecting designs of resto staff and s&b but later ZoS scratched those plans and turned 1h+rune into 1h+shield and resto staff. There is many possible reasons why that icon is in the game files but people choose only one reason that it definietly has to be skill line which was and still is planned.

Nemesis7884 wrote: »

Juhasow wrote: »

SilverIce58 wrote: »

Hotel6 wrote: »

idk if the engine can handle it. and i dont think zos will do that anytime soon even if it's possible.

The weapon line has been datamined. And why wouldnt the engine be able to handle it? Its just a weapon line.

Based on that datamined pictures both restoration staff and 1h+shield does not exist in the game. I think people created way too much fuss around one random datamined picture without any context. It may be also old design for the game where 1h+rune was initial idea connecting designs of resto staff and s&b but later ZoS scratched those plans and turned 1h+rune into 1h+shield and resto staff. There is many possible reasons why that icon is in the game files but people choose only one reason that it definietly has to be skill line which was and still is planned.

true...at the same time, devs usually have tried to implement things in the game that were requested often...they already said that a new weapon line would be difficult for a variety of reasons (one being that you would have to recreate new weapons for all the existing styles and it would change the loot tables) - but this is not the case for 1h+spell...as it could basically use existing 1h weapon models and simply work with passive bonuses / changes in the skill line if you dont equip another weapon in the second hand... so thats why i think IF we see a new weapon line, this one is most likely...

Also so far they always have alternated a new class with new crafting / skill lines for chapters...if they keep this up (and they seem to be falling into a certain rythm and keep doing the same type of content, etc.) than we would get a new skill line and or crating / weapon etc. this next chapter

Problem is You would still need to put something in Your second hand. Because without it You would have just one one-handed item in Your weapon slots and that would cripple that skill line the same way 2 handed weapons were crippled for long time and counted as 1 item which caused inability to for example wear 5-5-2 gear combos. ZoS would have to implement whole new mechanic that would recognize wheter You have one or two one handed weapons and would count it towards 1 or 2 item slots based on that or 1 handed weapons would have to be redesigned completly and always count as 2 items but then dual wield off-hand and shield slots wouldn't count as item slots. Both solutions sounds wierd.

To avoid them ZoS would have to add new items called runes that would fill second slot in 1h+rune combo. And that would also cause additional implementations , changes of drop rates , redesign of unique weapons in specific parts of content (like DSA , BRP etc.) and lot more. Sounds like a lot of mess. Also that would be wierd if we would have 1 handed weapons in 3 separate skill lines.