My "yes" is more hopeful than anything else hahah

Never been interested in having it in this game. I actually wasn't interested in it in previous games either; was glad they left it out of Skyrim.

I think there is a real chance this could be the year it happens.

Wouldn't bet too much on it though, as it was first presented back in 2014 yet never got introduced.

• Hopefully

After all, approximately two years after I posted that I wanted jewellery crafting we finally got it.

If we do get spell crafting you can bet there will be some ridiculous grind or cost associated with it.

No.

Clearly the new feature is zebra racing.

I mean... everything is possible, but the way I see it is that it would create co much imbalance that I doubt they will do it.

Already it is kinda hard for the Devs to balance stuff (as there is way to much stuff to balance) and it kinda shows. It always makes the whole experience unplayable for 1 - 3 months after major update, till we have a "hot - fix" nerf.

So, imagine if (just like with Oakensoul), just to sell new content they would add an incredible strong spell (to the point that it would be stronger than class abilities) and as soon as more people will manage to grind it & get it - it is nerfed.

Anything is possible. They can easily dust it off and develop it, but this is a big thing, and even if they do it, it will be years before they get it right. My "no" is a "please, for the love of everything, don't"

I'd lean slightly towards no at this point but wouldn't be terribly surprised if it would happen.

How Spell Crafting could be effective with this patch:

A portion of the assets are already done from the Beta stuff that got cut.

It's a function that people have requested and that people did like in some of the prior games.

It allows for more customization and more variety for builds(at least for the people that don't min max).

It would fit with the idea of having less story and more grinding content.

It would fit with Mora to a degree as you would be searching for knowledge.

How spell crafting could be ineffective with this patch:

Spell Crafting might be the Elder Scrolls version of playing Female Shepherd. If you read forums, it sounds like everybody did it. If you look at the stats it was actually a little under a third.

Balance wise, it could add challenges to put it mildly.

Grinding may not go over well with portions of the players. (I bought Summerset and ended up quitting a few days later a few years back because I so hated the Psijic grind.)

Mora may put a damper on the appeal of it if he is highly attached.

The top of the game might not have much class identity but, much of the rest of the game does and Spell Crafting could easily cut into it.

It will likely be hard to add new classes/weapons after putting in Spell Crafting because ESO doesn't have that many unused Elder Scrolls abilities and Spell Crafting will likely eat many of them up over time.

Depending on the amount of existing assets it might still be rather expensive to implement. If you look at the recent changes to some of the skills it's pretty obvious ZOS is cheap when it comes to adding new animations.

The number of active summons may cause annoyance/performance issues if more are added as all class. (One of the Spell Crafting items that was originally in play was the Flame Atronach and another was a Familiar.)

No.

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Weird thing, I want to answer Yes, but there was so many letdowns from year to year so I just can't answer 'yes', though I do think that hints pointing towards Spellcrafting...really want to believe that we will get Spellcrafting, but I have a little faith in ZoS, sadly.

I hope not. This is the very worst thing they could do in my opinion.

I really hope they don't bring spellcrafting into this game. I would not care for it at all.