Yes please!

This would be AWESOME! I've been wanting a magicka sword user type for so damn long.

My magDK approves as well! One of the coolest spells in the Elder Scrolls franchise is summoning a magical weapon you can use. We can already see some NPCs doing that ingame and it'd be really cool if we can do it ingame! In fact you wouldn't really need to make new motifs or anything. Just take the existing ones and make them super sparkly or something.

Simple solution: Have light/heavy attack damage be based on your highest stat, not just off of stamina/magicka depending on the weapon. If I want to use a two handed sword as a magicka dps because I want the 6% overall damage increase on my front bar, I should be able to choose that without a massive loss in damage because my light attacks only do 600 damage now. Simple solution that won't require much effort to implement an won't really require much balancing since people can do this anyways, albeit with about half the light attack damage capability.

I feel like this would fit magicka nightblade very well

How about a Conjuration skill line like conjured swords and bows included could be cool

The Aedric spear is also a conjured melee weapon. A sword or spectral bow would be really cool though.

Athan1 wrote: »

How about an magicka sword weapon line, with flashy magicka melee range effects and a ranged beam skill? I imagine something like Artoria's Excalibur from Fate.

I've long been a proponent of the 1h+ spell skill line, making many threads, so of course I'd support this

Thing is, with regards to the above gif and idea of "flashy magicka melee effects", it seems like they tried doing that with the Psijic Skill line and Imbue Weapon specifically (enchant your sword with magicka awesomeness for the next attack) but they just sucked at making the animations look good. It's horrendous to weave with melee weapons, from a visual perspective at least. Doesn't fulfill the fantasy at all.

I'd quite like an ult similar to Sorc's Overload, that enchants your weapon like the above gif / Imbue Weapon skill, but rather than being a skill to be pressed every time it instead becomes an ult toggle that consumes ultimate with every swing. Light attacks are normal weapon swings with extra damage and flashiness, fully charged heavy attacks unleash a ranged blade beam. One morph further boosts the damage of the blade beam and its range, the other adds healing to light attacks (boosting ranged DPS or melee range survivability). Being an ult should make it even more fulfilling, something you toggle when you want to trigger your god mode.

At the very least I hope they consider adding the functionality to sets at some point. 5 point bonus allows your fully charged heavy attacks to unleash a magicka beam etc. We already have some fun sets to play around with for similar magicka sword builds, like Storm Master causing all your light attacks to deal lightning damage (for 20 seconds, after dealing a heavy attack crit to trigger the effect, easy for NBs with shadowy disguise skill), Torug's Pact boosting your weapon enchantment damage and reducing cooldown (fun on an infused weapon with Ilambris Monster set). More sets to play around with would be nice though. Especially ones designed for magicka builds to boost melee weapon damage specifically.

Mostly, I still just have no idea why 1h+ spell isn't a thing in an Elder Scrolls game. Even NPCs have access to the skill line, but the players don't... Here's THREE of them in one screenshot


And some official TES art showcasing it, even from this very game:

Agree 100%. I use to dual wield on my Mag Templar years ago when it was really beneficial to unlock the 5 piece bonus.

But yes, I would love to see more than Staves for Magicka characters.

I'm literally down for everything. However, they did miss an opportunity to add unarmed skill line to the game with Elsweyr. Seriously, khajiit are known for having the greatest monks, it would have been awesome! Anyway a conjuration skill line would make the most sense, but how they would add that in a game where item sets are an important part of the game IDK. Maybe add a new weapon summoning item? Some kind of rune stone most likely. Or maybe make it possible to convert melee items into conjured weapons? Heck they could actually do both! So many ideas!

Maulkin wrote: »

I think the reason why melee or 1handed magicka weapons have not been touched by ZOS, is partly because of the sheer amount of design work they’d have to add. Being a weapon you’d think they’d have to add it to the motifs and there’s what 150 motifs now? And what do you do with the achievements on motif completion that players have already acquired? It’s messy.

Their alternative would be for those to be entirely outside of the motif system but not sure how you do that either. Some creative thinking might be required.

It wouldn't need many animations. Swords could use the same models, with added light effects over them. If it's 1h+rune, the other hand could just use an elemental orb of some sort, like the elf lady from the game's banner. Ezpz.

Athan1 wrote: »

Most players are magicka focused, yet all we have is staves. Sure, there are four sub-types, but they're essentially the same thing, just different animations and effects. Unlike stamina users who have tons of different weapons to choose from.

A magicka melee weapon line has been desired by the community for a while now. Many people hate using staves and want to use real weapons, but as magicka users that's all we have. How about an magicka sword weapon line, with flashy magicka melee range effects and a ranged beam skill? I imagine something like Artoria's Excalibur from Fate.


This could create a new niche for magicka DPS, which is currently geared towards long-range. Basically all magicka builds look about the same: robes/light armor (aka extremely squishy) and a staff, so basically there is no benefit in coming close-range. This just encourages zoning and spamming skills from afar. A magicka melee option would encourage players to come within melee range, properly apply their shields, and perhaps go heavy armor.

Paired with heavy armor, this line could also make magicka tanking more viable through a couple of tanking spells. For example, it could have a skill similar to Puncture, allowing magicka tanks to apply major fracture (which frost staff tanks currently lack).

This line would allow players to play the spellsword or 1h+rune RPG archetype, which is not really possible in ESO at present, and diversify the gameplay of magicka classes. Thoughts?

Why would you want a melee magic sword if you want to use range skills like beams and such? For the time being, you can use daul swords and use melee/magicka range spells depending on your class.

its really strange considering most if not all enemies with swords you fight in eso are using magicka swords.