Andre_Noir wrote: »

TheEndBringer wrote: »

It's easier to balance when there are specific roles.

There is no specific roles. There is a DD that allowed to have 3 different executions skills and there another DD that got a single weapon gutted to something tanky-wonky-support nonsense and without even remotely effective execute

It's easier to balance mag skills for mag builds and stam skills for stam builds. What you wrote has nothing to do with it. You're complaining about class balance which has been an issue since day one and will not be fixed by letting someone throwing stam and mag skills with the equivalent damage as someone who invests completely into one or another.

I may not have a popular opinion on this thread, but IMO the direction they are moving is a lot closer to traditional Elder Scrolls.

I actually think they should go farther and make all skills cost Magicka, and only use Stamina for roll dodge, block, bash, etc. I never really understood how some feat of effort could turn 1 arrow into a 10+ second volley of arrows if not by magic, or how can a feat of Vigor heal myself and my allies if not by magic? This also solves the problem of being able to invest in Stamina to get high damage and defense. If magicka is about damage and support and stamina is about defense then you have a harder time pushing both at the same time.

Also, damage, should just be damage and crit should just be crit. I think this is the right call.

Anyone who says that this will make it so that only a few sets are viable has not looked at very many high end trials builds lately. Unless someone is working in a group oriented support set, or the trial invalidates a set, they are all wearing the same sets. This will just cause a one time shuffle and then everyone will be wearing the same statistical best sets again. PvP has always been a rat race, and will continue to be a mixed bag of sets, and someone will always find some new cheese.

What this does enable though, is for players to use a 2 handed sword with light armor and actually throw in some 2 handed skills (instead of only being able to use non weapon specific class skills), or use a staff with medium armor, etc. If you just consider aesthetics (and forget about whether your skills are depleting a blue or green bar) you will find that there are actually a lot more options with this model.

I also think that Armor should have never been linked to the kind of damage you do. It should have only been about the level of protection, types of defense, and the sustain you have, and damage should have only been determined/buffed by the class and weapons.

If they would have launched with this model it would have saved a lot of endless balance (Stamina vs Magicka vs Hybrid) and tail chasing over the years, but better late than never I guess.

kojou wrote: »

I actually think they should go farther and make all skills cost Magicka, and only use Stamina for roll dodge, block, bash, etc.

That's how it worked in 2014 and it was absolutely terrible.

Stamina builds were useless, because there wasn't a single stamina-based class skill. Why in the world you would want to bring that back is baffling.

As if stamina builds for different classes weren't homogenised already, imagine when your ONLY options are weapon skills.

Why don't we straight up bring the excellent "Click LMB a bunch of times" combat system from single player TES games?