It would be a lot of work, but I would have every weapon skill line have slightly differing morphs based on the class that has the weapon equiped. It could be mechanical or animation based. Volley on a Sorc could become a barrage of thunder infused arrows raining from the sky if magicka based or it could be whirl of arrows inside a tornado if stamina based. Similarly, destro staff on a dk could have one morph of Elemental Ring become a Fireball for a magic morph or it could be an area of disease and poison around them for a stamina morph. These could give each class a bit of flavor and differentiate them from others who use the same skills. Again, they could be purely animation or have a mechanical component. Even it's as small as changing the damage type of the ability based on the class.

I agree on having mag and stam morphs both available. But. I would enjoy for the third morph of damaging skills to include sustain and/or health and defensive elements. Furthermore, I would like for this version to be the unmorphed base skill and draw on whichever resource pool is higher, as this would be most beneficial to newer players. It would also encourage them to keep leveling so they can unlock the damage-focused morphs, thus creating a bit of enticement for player retention. As an example, I'll use Backlash (Templar skill).

Base: use the current form of Purifying Light (get that health back)

Stam morph: current Power of the Light, but make it major breach and add martial damage status (bleed, poison, etc)

Mag morph: same as stam, but add minor breach and apply magic damage status (burning, chilled, etc.)

For the healing and tanky skills in each class, simply add some/more damage to the base skills, so that our support players have the chance to level up faster. Reduce the slowness (read: absolute anti-fun grind) of leveling a tank or healer, and there would be far more people opting for those roles, which would also help with queue issues (both reducing the need for fake roles, as well as shortening queue times)

Also a side note: I specifically would like for Backlash to be reworked because stam/medium armor builds need more pen, and because purifying light is weak af with the heal to the point of being useless IMO.

I'd provide morphs that supported health as an offensive resource.

A scorch morph, for example, that cost 2k health to use and made the damage of the ability scale from max health (making it ignore the first 20k health, but scale twice as effective so 50k health equates to a 60k resource pool). You're still missing the crit/crit damage for it to make tank damage insane, but it'd be better if tanks in normal dungeons could be specced 'tank' and still capable of 25-30k damage (I can do it on my DK, but only because I am predominantly dps-focused and only have 35k health with no self healing beyond masters sword+shield).

I'd also like to see some skills twist into alternate damage types to support builds - like disease options or lightning damage.

Radiant Destruction --> Radiant Heroism
Converts to a stamina ability. Now causes the users light, heavy & bash attacks to deal up to 50% more damage and their direct damage abilities to deal up to 200% more damage to targets under 25% health for 20 seconds. This effect does not apply to execute abilities.

Why: I think it would be a neat way of handling an execute for stamplars. Instead of spamming beams, it encourages the templar to keep up the pressure with weaving light attacks and mixing in a direct-damage ability of their choice.

Dive --> Frigid Dive
Now calls an Ice Wraith instead of a cliff racer, dealing frost damage instead of magic damage. Deals 10% more damage to chilled targets and 5% more damage to targets affected by brittle.

Scorch --> Flash Freeze
Now calls an ice wraith swarm to burst from the ground, dealing frost damage as well as applying major brittle for 4 seconds.

Swarm --> Wisp Assault
Now calls a wisp swarm that deals frost damage instead of magic damage. Every second the wisp swarm persists the affected target takes .5% more damage from frost damaging effects, up to a maximum of 5%.

Feral Guardian --> Frostbane Guardian
Now summons a Frostbane Sabercat to fight alongside you, which deals frost damage. The execute damage of Guardian's Savagery now increase to 250% against targets affected by minor or major brittle, but makes them immune to brittle for 30 seconds afterwards.

Why: Wardens could use more viable ice damage attacks in their kit. Maybe I went a bit overkill though.

I'd keep it to ults. Got one in mind now for 2H. Instead of it being single target it gets turned into a sweep like cleave that ignores defense but no longer gives you the defense you ignored. So that way you got a third way you could use it.

Easy. Add a third morph to Nightblade's cloak. Option for going invisible for an extra second, but with no benefits other than invisibility. I would love to have an option for cloak that is both defensive and actually uses Nightblade's signature invisibility.

I'd like it to be a mag or stam option if the skill doesn't already have one.
I just want to dual wield daggers on my mage and actually be able to use the weapon skills without going hybrid in peace tyvm.

I wouldn't add a 3rd. But I would allow the changing of morphs without a shrine when both morphs are maximum lvl... Just a thought, theres a few times when swapping dualweild/bow skills too the interrupt morph would have been helpful on the fly in my case anyway. Been filling alot of veteran shipwrights lately

3rd morphs for Storm Calling skill-line: my reasoning is due to my love for this skill-line and the desire for more flavor (air mage).

-(Overload) Piercing overload:

Charge your fists with the power of the storm, replacing your Light and Heavy Attacks with new, stronger abilities. Light Attacks become bursts of air, dealing 2640 Bleed Damage to an enemy up to 32 meters away. Heavy Attacks slices enemies in a in front of you for 2375 Bleed Damage (akin to Bloodskal Blade in Skyrim). Bash attacks release a burst of air in front of you that interrupt enemies up to 32 meters away. Attacks deplete Ultimate until you run out, or the ability is toggled off.

-(Mages' Fury) Halting Fury:

Soar up into the clouds and call yourself down to strike an enemy (akin to the maormer skill where they jump into the air and land right on you dragoon style). dealing 871 Physical Damage. If the enemy falls to or below 20% Health within 4 seconds of being struck, an explosion deals an additional 3195 Bleed Damage to them. This attack also stuns an enemy (stun bonus for being placed into melee range, no bonus damage to nearby enemies, range 22 mm to essentially make this a gap closer execute).

-(Lightning Form) Spectral Form:

Manifest yourself as tranquil air, buffeting nearby enemies with calming wind that inflicts them with Major and Minor Breach. While in this form you gain Major Resolve, increasing your Physical and Spell Resistance by 5948. (No movement speed boost or damage).

-(Lightning Splash) Microburst:

Create a localized column of sinking air at the target location, dealing 431 Physical Damage to enemies in the area every half second (ticks more than other morphs). for 10 seconds. An ally standing within the column can activate the Conduit synergy, dealing 2249 Physical Damage to enemies around them. 3 meter radius smaller than other morphs.

-(Surge) Piercing Surge:

Invoke Hircine's name to gain 3000 Offensive Penetration. While active, dealing Critical Damage heals you for 3300 Health. This effect can occur once every 1 second. For those who use potions for Major Brutality/Sorcery.

-(Bolt Escape) Whirlwind Sprint:

Transform yourself into pure gale-force and rush forward dealing 1438 Physical Damage to enemies in your wake, knocking them back 4 meters and stunning them for 2 seconds. This effect can be blocked. Casting again within 4 seconds costs 33% more Stamina.

oldbobdude wrote: »

I would have a harder time choosing morph than I already do.

I was just about to say the same thing.

With the hybridisation the magicka/stamina morph is less an issue.

I think it would be a good idea to make specific PvP morphs to better balance out PvE and PvP, and although I am mostly a PvE player the PvP community desperately need new toys to play with.

And to add on to the idea: I would find it even better that each morph gets 2 new options.
So 1 skill will eventually lead to 4 options.

I'd add a third morph to the necromancer's skelly that made it permanent. The downside would be less fresh corpses for the character and, to balance, perhaps nerf the minion a bit. If NPC necromancers can get their post mortem associates to stand around indefinitely, why shouldn't players have the same benefit?

Power slam for tanks:
Scales off max health, gains stacks of resentment 10 times while blocking that increase the damage, and if 10 stacks are used, it releases an AoE in a cone.
People will say it will break PvP, which it won't (it's just a burst attack, something that expert PvP'ers have done a lot better without it).

I'd just do anything to make tanks fun and viable to play without taking away from the DPS.

Dracan_Fontom wrote: »

Rejuvenating Route (Refreshing Path Morph):

Summon a wreath of shadows around your feet, granting you Major Expedition, Minor Endurance, and Minor Intellect, increasing movement speed by 30%, as well as Stamina and Magicka Recovery by 15%. Moving while under the effects of the spell causes shadows to linger behind and grant the effects to your allies within the area. Effect persists for 4 seconds after leaving the path. Heals 674 Health to you and allies in the area every 1 second.

Dark Reflection (Dark Shades Morph):

You conjure a reflection of yourself which mimics certain abilities you use for X seconds. Whenever you cast or use a Single Target Ability, the Reflection strikes at a target within range, based on your current equipped weapon, for X damage. Whenever you cast an Area of Effect ability, the Reflection unleashes a burst of shadows around them, dealing X damage to anyone within range. Whenever you cast a Damage over Time ability, the Reflection throws an orb of shadows which latches onto an enemy within range, dealing X damage instantly and X damage over time. In addition, each strike also inflicts Minor Maim to the target or targets, reducing their damage by 5%. Each form of strike can only be executed once every 4 seconds.

Siphon Vitality (Funnel Health Morph):

You extract a greater bulk of an enemy's life force, dealing X damage to them and healing you and 2 nearby allies for 60% of the damage done. In addition, the spell's damage - or healing - increases as the target's health percentage decreases, up to 10% when below 90% HP. However, the bonus fades once the target drops below 25% HP.


These are just a few ideas I thought of. The first two are personally ones I'd like to see tested - or changes to existing skills in Refreshing Path's case.

I would actually like to have the Dark Reflection skill on the Dark Brotherhood skill line, along with a small expansion of the story of this "guild".

In fact, I would love to see all guild's storylines expanded a bit with time, instead of just adding new ones on top of the older ones, they should just flesh out the old ones adding new skills and maybe even adding skill Morphs to them, like the ones you just mentioned. Summoning a shadow to imitate your abilities does sound like a very Dark Brotherhood skill.

Negate stam