New companions are just expected now. That won't be the new feature they're talking up.

I think the big three options most people pray for are

1) New Weapon
2) New Class
3) Spellcrafting

Vet overland is the other big one, but if it's happening it will be the Q4 big feature. They won't lock a difficulty mode behind a Chapter purchase. That's a baseline feature like Housing was.

I wish they would introduce the Spear and the Crossbow as weapons, that the first one should have been available from the beginning of the game and the second one should have been added in Greymoor

Xarc wrote: »

spell crafting is something asked for like 5-6 years now

Early on in ESO spell crafting was talked about by the devs. But around year 3 or 4, the devs admitted that they couldn't do spell craft without it ending up completely broken. And they never solved the problems that would lead to everyone having the same broken build.

We're already getting new companions, I'm guessing an Argornian plus an elf type.

ESO also covers all the possible races that a player could "realistically" play. While there are a few remaining niche races who are nearly extinct now and will be by the 3rd Era, I can't see using resources on them.

I would like to see an unarmed combat skill line but to do it right, it would have to be it's own class with 3 skill lines. So a spear weapon skill line is the next best option.

A new companion that you can access if you only have the base game without ESO+.

But I'd rather have a new class.

For me class and race are pointless because i don't re-roll alts, i stick to my main, and changing class/race only to be maxed out already is silly (for me). My interest in them would be working my way up as something new, but again that's me.

New companion is OK, but i think that's pretty much going to be a normal thing now with expansions, so new weapon (of your choices) if its different enough from what we have, not just some reskinning of existing attack animations. As some mentioned, something where your character can feel a little more "your style" instead of the hybridizing/homogenizing of things for balance.

Unfortunately as happens, these sorts of posts get everyone's minds all fired up with amazing possibilities, and then no matter what they release it will end up a disappoint to a lot of folks.

I don't want to make any more characters and I don't use companions so I'm not interested in the other options. I do often feel like the characters I create now are somewhat redudant because there's not enough weapon choices. I do make sure I'm using all the weapons between them, and there's no complete duplicates, but it still feels limited.

I don't understand the desire for spell crafting other than as a roleplay option. If you look at how it was going to be designed and implemented it was basically the antiquities system and mythic items.

You search for components to combine and craft a "thing" that gives limited but slightly more powerful effects. Once you have it you are done and go on to find/make a new one. That is exactly what a mythic item is.

After about a week everyone will be running the same 5 spells because that's how meta works. You are not going to get endless combinations that provide creative diversity because they could never balance for that. So it would either be watered down and not useful or designed to be just as powerful as a mythic with similar limitations. Plus the same little mini game to grind out.

Is that really what people are so excited about and want? Or am I missing something? You can go online and see what spell crafting was going to look like and they clearly used parts of it for antiquities and mythics.

I'm not trying to put down what people want but it just seems from an MMO game experience where you are playing with other people and things have to be constantly balanced spell crafting wont be more than what we already have. If all the interest is from a single-player perspective or play how you want it will just be watered down and not any more fun than the mythic system.

We're bound to get new companions anyway and I don't much care for new races. However, and I see I'm not the only one, I'd really like to see crossbows added as weapons, as opposed to just being a skill. Since that would mean adding a 15th page to motif styles, I believe the fair solution would be for it to be added retroactively to all completed styles, so people would not need to farm again and those who bought the style books from the crown store would not feel cheated.

fleetingyouth_ESO wrote: »

I don't understand the desire for spell crafting other than as a roleplay option. If you look at how it was going to be designed and implemented it was basically the antiquities system and mythic items.

You search for components to combine and craft a "thing" that gives limited but slightly more powerful effects. Once you have it you are done and go on to find/make a new one. That is exactly what a mythic item is.

After about a week everyone will be running the same 5 spells because that's how meta works. You are not going to get endless combinations that provide creative diversity because they could never balance for that. So it would either be watered down and not useful or designed to be just as powerful as a mythic with similar limitations. Plus the same little mini game to grind out.

Is that really what people are so excited about and want? Or am I missing something? You can go online and see what spell crafting was going to look like and they clearly used parts of it for antiquities and mythics.

I'm not trying to put down what people want but it just seems from an MMO game experience where you are playing with other people and things have to be constantly balanced spell crafting wont be more than what we already have. If all the interest is from a single-player perspective or play how you want it will just be watered down and not any more fun than the mythic system.

Mostly agree with you with spell crafting, it would not be like Morrowind or Oblivion, I assumes it would be more like enchanting or alchemy. It would be useful, if nothing else it would fill out gaps for classes.

A new weapon by far but I am going to be somewhat irritated if they don't introduce 2 new companions to round out the classes. Its not necessarily that I need them but its more the nagging feeling that the companion system would be incomplete without them.

But a new weapon is going to provide more to replayability than anything else.

Short of a new weapon, because there might be limitations on including that, a new guild skill line would be better than a race. A race is just 3 passives and nothing else.

As much as I do want a new race (Maormer), I think a new weapon would be far healthier for the game at this current moment in time. They can wait til like the 10th anniversary or the 15th (if the game is still alive) to introduce something game-changing and jaw-dropping like a new race.

I'd love to be able to play a Maormer and to use spears in this game, but I'm not sure how probable that is. Companions, on the other hand, will probably be added continously with every chapter.

None of the choices really interest me, but out of them, even if I know that it's technically out of reach (no business case), a new race is what would motivate me slightly more than the two others.