new weapons like 1h/rune, spear, and hand to hand or spellcrafting

Druid from World of Warcraft: able to shapeshift into animal forms depending on activity. Bear for tanking, tree of life for healing, cat for melee damage, boomkin for ranged damage.

Bouldercleave wrote: »

Gladiator / Monk

We need a class that uses Martial arts / Hand to Hand tactics.

Based on the way ESO classes/skills work, that's not a class, it's a weapon skill line.

I’d prefer a class that uses water magic like a Tempest class or an Elementalist using water, wind, and earth.

None of the above.

Battlemage - this would be too similar to existing classes and I don't think there would be a huge amount of variety within the class, you likely wouldn't get any differentiation between mag and stam as almost by definition it's a hybrid class. That could work well given ZoS's love for hybrid builds, but I just think every battlemage would end up being even more of a cookie cutter than existing classes.

Witch - we don't need yet another class predominantly based on magicka to add to the existing magicka supremacy.

Witch hunter - why would this be a class of its own? Anyone can hunt witches.

Barbarian - with the state of the game as it is I don't think a melee stamina only class would be much appreciated. If you really want a barbarian type character, 2h/2h stamsorc can work I guess.

My vote would be for vampire. It always felt like it should have been a full class rather than a single unbalanced skill line - just a class that overwrote most or all of your existing class skill lines, i.e. so that you can choose to apply it to an existing character after character creation, for RP reasons. Neither the original implementation nor the reworks have been satisfactory at all.

Before they make new classes I'd like to see them do something to make stamina DDs equally viable to magicka ones. That probably means making bow as viable as staves as a front bar weapon and addressing the difficulty of using the same resource pool for skills as for core combat abilities. It doesn't really make sense for things like sprinting and roll dodging to cost magicka but perhaps applying a cost reduction to sprint, roll dodge and block based on the number of attribute points you have in stamina could work. Require as minimum of 32 for any cost reduction at all, then scale it so that at 64 points in stamina the abilities are cheap enough that you don't kill your sustain by running to the next fight or by having to roll dodge once in a while. (Yes there's quite a lot of hand waving about how to ensure balance for PvP in that suggestion, but however they do it making stam not just viable but desirable to play should be high up the to-do list.)

None of the Above/Other <---which should have really been a poll option

Also.. does anyone else miss schools of magic? (Assuming you played the Elder Scrolls other than this)

I'd love for them to bring THAT into play.

Pugilist/ Hand to Hand: Mostly just want Hand to Hand combat back whether that’s a class or a weapon skill line. I bee-lined to those Gloves of the Pugilist every Skyrim run.

Spearman/Spear: Before you say it’s not lore abiding, there was a spear skill line in Morrowind, so hah! Same as above, class or a weapon skill line doesn’t matter to me. Polearms and spears are my favorite martial weapons in any game.

But again those are both more of weapon skill lines.

Acrobat or Bard: These could be good new non-redundant classes, if they were executed well.

Spellcrafting: Now this is the best new potential skill line. Bring in a system by which you can craft all types of spells (AoE, Line, Cone, Direct Hit, etc) in all types of elemental damage. Maybe even add some new types of ele damage (water, wind, dark, light, earth). Imagine a movement skill for DK, forcing locks with magicka, or ice skills that aren’t super weak. Reintegrating the Schools of magic (Conjuration, Destruction, Alteration, etc) which have been sorely missed in ESO.

I'd love to see a bard class! (And that's not just because I played a minstrel for 12 years in a different MMO).

Music is such a powerful thing, and I think ESO could get real creative about it.

Also:

I doubt we will be getting a new class though.

Bard.

Case closed.

Berseker/Barbarian my #1 chioce. Mele stam needs some love this could help.

Mushroomancer wrote: »

None of the ones you listed.

• Battlemage/Spellsword: been saying this in pretty much every thread that proposes this class. Both Battlemage and Spellsword are not classes that are well-differentiated enough to stand on their own in ESO. The requirement of a mage that can also use weapons can be fullfilled by any class, hell it's even meta now with magicka dps being able to use melee weapons and still do good dps. And if you want the heavy armor aestethic of these classes, just use the outfit station. Please stop requesting this class, it's uninventive, boring, and I don't think it would make a good addition to ESO. At most I think we could see some of the scrapped skill lines for it as stand alone or even as new weapon classes.
• Witch/Hedgemage: don't know what this is referring to exactly, but I'm guessing you are talking about the witch-like enemies in the Reach. Yes it would be cool to have more magic based on nature and maybe the void, but we already have the Warden, which covers the former, and the latter seems unlikely. I would much rather see the void remain very nebulous, and unable to be "channeled", and was already iffy at the way they portrayed it in Markarth, just being another dimension with "lost souls", pretty lame.
• Witch-hunter: again, cool class in the single player TES games, not unique enough to be a class in ESO. At most, I could see them implementing some sort of "Witch-hunting" quests or dailies, although the cultural and historical baggage of even the idea of witch-hunting makes me think it's most likely never gonna happen.
• Barbarian: really? The most generic warrior class (well besides warrior, which is literally the same, just with heavy armor, I think?) is something you think they'll implement? Literally any stamina class can be made to look like and feel like a Barbarian, just don't use class skills. What skill-lines would a Barbarian class even have? Raiding, Muscles, and Lamentation of Enemy Women? Didn't really think this one through, did ya?

I think the main problem with the classes you proposed is that for a class to work in ESO it kinda needs to put together more than one archetype, unlike the classes from the main-line games, which really represent just one, and mostly very boring and trite ones at that. Look at Warden, for example, it combines the Druid archetype, with the Ice Mage one. Or alternatively, it needs to be a class that feels unique enough whereas even if it doesn't combine multiple archetypes, you can still make three distinct skill-lines out of it like the Templar. Just taking a class from classic TES which is literally "mage, but he hit good with pointy stick" barely qualifies as a class for ESO, because we already have weapon skill-lines, and the different elements of Destruction magic, as well as other schools of magic, are distributed among the classes, so I don't see a generic "mage" being too appealing.

To me, the only class that can be diverse enough to have three unique skill-lines is some sort of Dwarven artificer/alchemist kind of deal, which would use Ancient Artifacts, Dwemer Constructs, and Alchemy. Maybe, just maybe a Bard class could be feasible, just associate each skill-line to a different instrument, or make each one a different type of art, like Music, Poetry, and Acting (?), I don't know, just throwing ideas at the wall. But then again, bards in TES aren't really a fleshed-out "class", they are either straight up artists, or your run-of-the-mill adventurer with a BA in Performative Arts.

This guy gets it, both in analysing the suggested options and also coming up with something sufficiently different from the existing classes, strong enough to stand up as a fully purposed class, and fitting in with TES.

However, I seriously doubt that ZOS are looking at adding another class in the foreseeable future.

I seriously doubt we'd get anything new that could be used in PvP content. That includes new classes, weapons, and the like. I'd love to have new weapons, spell crafting, and skill lines (Please no more classes), but I doubt we'll see them till next year.