Sticking racial skill to appearance is an old-school outdated system that NEEDS to go! I don't care that it was that way in a 10/15/20 year old RPG. This is an MMO and this is 2021 we're talking.

Racials should be either a skill tree where you pick: magical / stamina DPS, heal, tank, sustain builds with very slight differences for each race

Or a standard set of skills that you can pick for those roles and are completely independent of the race you pick.

Marchastre wrote: »

Could have been way much better to integrate the passives as a sort of progression, linked to the champion system instead of the current iteration of the passives / champions points.

Have 10 tree of abilities, each representing one archetype of the races, each giving differents bonus you can pick from:

• Orc - Pariah : Give differents bonus for the offtanking (increased regeneration after a parry, increased resistance after taking a large hit)
• Argonian - Rootmender : Healer (Increase the heals and the magicka/stamina regen from a healer)
• Altmer - Arcanist : Pve Magicka DPS (Give more crits, spell damage and bonus on hitting the same target)
• Breton - Battlemage : PvP magicka dps ( Increase the magicka stats but also the ability to resist damages)
• Dunmer - Hortator : Hybrid DPS (Bonus to magicka and stamina, bonus on the offstats of the characte, more penetration)
• Bosmer - Hunter : PvP Stamina DPS (increased stamina damages against heavy armored target, increased detection range, decreased time period to enter in stealth)
• Nord - Conqueror : Main tanking (Reduced damage taken, % of regeneration available when blocking, increased regeneration after taking a large hit)
• Redguard - Blade Master : PvE Stamina dps (Increased crits, % of cleave damage, poison/bleed/disease dots improved)
• Khajiit - Trickster : Utility (Increased movement speed, bonus given during combats when encountering certains thresholds/conditions, increased potions effect)
• Imperial - Emperor : Synergy, groups and ultimates (Increased effects of synergy, increased ultimate generation, damage reduced depending of the positions of the allies)

At beginning, the character is only stuck with the archetype of his own race but once you're gaining CP, you can unlock the passives of the others archetypes and equip them.

But instead, we have the current system. Sigh.

This sounds good really good on paper but not sure how well it would fit into the game if they stuck to the way the other TES games were it does not fit into the design ether but they could do something to a degree close to that where its focus is more on things like ORC has a better resistance in light armor and has a stronger damage to certain things not a flat across the board increase I think this is why so many racials do not fit as many call it the lore but its more like they do not match the other TES games bonuses. Cause if you really follow the lore most who become what they do is to training and learning the art of there chosen path weather it be a Warrior path and wizard path or a priest path they all have the ability to do it and many can excel at it.

This has always been a problem with many MMO's that have racial stat increases it foot holds many into certain roles much like WoW did with its races only being allowed to play certain races and many others this creates an illusion that your race is specific to a certain role then you come across a character in the lore or story that is not like the others and you go I want to play that kind of character. But hey its there game there choice on what they do with it but this idea sounds really good.