I would love an opportunity to use staves. I'm not big on magicka, so that's out -- but definitely that, as well as an unarmed line would be excellent.

I think monk would be better as an unharmed skill line than a class

Polearm would actually probably be a pretty easy new weapon to design, pole arms are a stick with a blade at the end of it. It wouldn’t be hard to derive the designs of the polearms motifs based on existing blades and staves in the game. So it would still be a lot of work with all the motifs but it’s not like they would have to design them from nothing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BRTF9PnhBk

Some Unarmed Magicka abilities already exist in the game for NPC mobs, so we're at least half way there for that!

ShawnLaRock wrote: »

There will never be a new weapon line, as every. single. motif would have to be redesigned to include it - and that simply, will never happen.

S.

That's pretty sad if that's true. No denying it's a big job, but it's a real shame if adding 100 new weapon designs is deemed too much work.

On the monk / polearm idea - I don't hate it, but I would much prefer 1-hand and rune or something along those lines.

ArchMikem wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BRTF9PnhBk

Some Unarmed Magicka abilities already exist in the game for NPC mobs, so we're at least half way there for that!

This is exactly how it should / could work and I'm totally here for it. Throw in some passives that buff your hardiness so people don't freak as much about how paper thin you are when in melee and give morphs that allow you to be ranged, like that ground fire ability the NPC used.

I can see a bunch of options here.

• Ulti - Ground Pound - Hurl yourself into the air and super hero land, dealing x damage and applying y buff.
• A skill that is a super robust uppercut, one morph can stun/off-balance
• Roundhouse kick
• Summoning attack (summon weapon, summon ghostly claws that lash at an enemy, etc.)
• Ranged spell (kind of like how you use flames/lightning in Skyrim, for instance) that has morphs for differing magic types
• Something like "Pummel" where you hit a fit of rage and batter your enemy with consecutive attacks

As for new weapons, you could easily get away with "wraps" or "gauntlets" and the weapon design for existing motifs could just be the armor design. The point of going unarmed would be to.. not have a weapon. That said, it would offer some new motif options (i.e. from an event vendor) that look like brass knuckles, or boxing gloves, or a full on Thanos gauntlet.

Unarmed is, in my opinion, a large part of, like, every RPG Bethesda studios makes, so it should make it in to ZOS' ESO. I'm here for the Pugilism chapter 100.

No. Just, no. World of Warcraft is that way ---->

francesinhalover wrote: »

Everyone will use two handed anyways since carve is overpowered atm, but jokes aside

stams already have problems because of all the insta kill aoes that im not sure why this game isnt called staff scrolls online.

But the issue is, a fighter skill line would have 0 ranged skills. Unless z adds a summon shadow that teleports to enemy and punches it and a punch that throws wind that deals damage, but the game woukd look a bit anime

A spear skill line would just be templar 2.0

Polearm woukd just be two handed 2.0

And these 2 would require z to make weapons for all existing motifs.

The best option would be one handed sword n rune or magic. (Battlemage)

I think polearms and spears would work fine under the 2h skill line, they just need to be added in the game. The current game mechanics make fighting up close more difficult but not impossible and shouldn't be what determines which combat styles are added in the game. Unarmed was a staple in TES3 and TES4 and should be brought back.

Vindold wrote: »

in TES3 it was more viable than in TES4-5, if my memory serves me right.

it was the opposite, hand to hand sucked in Morrowind and was better in Oblivion. Morrowind hand-to-hand didn't do damage until the target was depleted of fatigue, oblivion hand to hand just did damage like a normal attack.

Onomog wrote: »

No. Just, no. World of Warcraft is that way ---->

World of Warcraft didn't invent the Monk class and doesn't own complete ownership of the Monk class. Any game is allowed to have said class if they want it to be.

Personally, out of the all the possible new weapons, I do think a Monk one would be most likely since you can add unarmed weapons to the game without giving them a motif or visual at all. I rather have Crossbows (I don't mind if Crossbows uses the same Archery skill as Bows, I just want Crossbows) but I see them doing unarmed combat first before anything else.