On the Greymoor PTS, the character screen background is of the new expansion and not the characters alliance. Someone said years ago they should allows us to change them to the homeland of our races and Zos took notice as they commented on it. This is the first change we have so maybe we will get more this year

Let us marry Darien Gautier, place him in our home, and have him wander around as our housecarl? This is the best idea I have seen in these forums, ever. Please make this happen @ZOS_RichLambert

Tandor wrote: »

AcadianPaladin wrote: »

Only thing on the list I'd like to see is a class change token.

If I have a concept I want to try, I give it the full shot. That is, I invest 6 months+ into bringing the character up (horse, undaunted, FG, MG, Alliance skills, supporting crafting skills to have better food/potion duration, etc. Though this has often worked well, I have a magblade and a bow/bowblade that have been given the full fair shot and I have concluded I don't want to play them. I would love to change their class to be able to save much repetitive grinding if I wanted to try another class. As things are, I simply avoid starting any new characters.

More importantly, a class change does not hurt anyone. For those who don't favor the idea, simply don't use the option. More flexibility and choices is generally a good thing.

The fact that ZoS has said they currently have no such plans means nothing. They can (and do) change on a whim rather regularly.

Untrue. When you have a class change ability then players have to follow the perceived FOTM class whether they want to or not, or they get kicked from groups etc. Additionally, developers will tweak the balance of the classes every update in order to sell more class change tokens, and that impacts on all players whether they use the tokens or not.

I will disagree, here is my point:

If we are talking about hardest content like trials & achievement runs - you already have to be certain class / race / gear combo in order to participate. As a result, if you were unlucky to for example & rolled certain race / class when you 1st started playing the game (your main) then you have no hopes to get certain rewards as titles for example are not account wide.

When it comes to normal group content, like dungeons, dlc dungeons and some vet dungeons - people don't vote-kick, unless they will get wiped several times times. Only then, some people lose their nerves and will start blaming each-other. Also I have not seen anyone trying to kick someone because certain player was not using certain gear or was not running certain class or race. Basically - of all goes well, vote-kicks do not happen.

Besides, currently you can always create new alt that is certain race / class combo - as long as you have free character slots... and this brings us to the final, most important point imho.

ZOS does no like hoarding. They obviously try to limit our inventory space, so more people would use ESO+ for more bank & Craft Bag. So obviously, there will be a point that they will stop increasing maximum character slots - because players use those as storage space for gear. ZOS does not want you to keep "unlocked" (farmed) gear. They want people to sell nerfed gear & re-farm buffed gear (look for example at whole vMA / vDA gear drama). Basically - at some point we won't have more Character slots.

Another, most important thing is (paradoxically) Class Change token is a perfect way to achieve true class balance...
...But how, you will say ?! Players will simply roll / switch to better class, right ? - And that is exactly the point.

Imagine for example, that we have a class change token. What happens next is we have a lot of players switching classes from the ones that are underperforming to the ones that are over-performing (lest say NB to Necro etc.) As a result global population of certain class is decreased drastically, and the others are increased drastically. That way ZOS has a lot of internal statistics and will see what class used most often in certain content (PvE / PvP) or role (Tank / DPS / Healer). Basically, they will know what to buff / nerf.

Sure, you may say that there is a risk of even more P2W classes, but I don't think that will happen. ZOS usually tends to appeal mostly towards new players, with each year-long story. Imagine how it would look like if a new player was told that they also need to buy X class when they bought the game... because base game ones are "meh"...

The thing is that "P2W", happens only if you start comparing weakest class to the strongest class (Nb vs Necro.. um, yeah ; Templar vs Ncero... um, not so much etc). Also the whole P2W stuff is a bad PR for all games (games as services in particular) so ZOS will want to avoid it. Every mmo games has updates, and often older stuff gets updated to current standards to lessen the power creep. It happened in the past updates, so it will happen in future ones.

TLDR:
Class change token will happen at some point in the future, either to sell convinces, or sell less Character slots (ZOS does not like hoarding, they want you to use ESO+), to make class balance better (more statistic data of most popular classes etc.) or (at worst) to sell class upgrades, if they will decide to go "P2W" - but it will be too obvious and many would quit.