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What future “themes” would you want for skill lines?
MindOfTheSwarm
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This could take the form of a weapon, guild or world skill line. Not including classes or set bonuses in this poll. New skill lines only.
Edited by ZOS_Icy on July 14, 2023 5:48PM What future “themes” would you want for skill lines? 114 votes
Blood Magic (Magic/Bleed)
13%
15 votes
Disease/Plague Magic
5%
6 votes
Alteration Skills (Tanking/CC)
12%
14 votes
Pet Skills (Beasts/Deadra/Undead)
9%
11 votes
Artificer Skills (traps and machines)
24%
28 votes
More Elemental Skills (Flame/Ice/Shock)
10%
12 votes
Healing Skills
0%
Witchcraft (curses and hexes)
12%
14 votes
Buffs and Utility
7%
8 votes
Plants ( Poison flowers, thorny vines)
5%
6 votes
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MindOfTheSwarm✭✭✭✭✭
✭Disease/Plague MagicI voted Disease as it the most underrepresented damage type in the game. Blood Magic and Witchcraft come joint second as not many Blood skills and the idea of hexes and curses sound cool.2 -
phaneub17_ESO✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭More Elemental Skills (Flame/Ice/Shock)Hydromancer. Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink... because I made you drown in it!6 -
merpins✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭Blood Magic (Magic/Bleed)Out of these options, I like blood magic. I'd love to see a 3rd revamp of vampire to fit this niche, actually.4 -
TaSheen✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭I'm personally not interested in skill lines.______________________________________________________
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Billium813✭✭✭✭✭
✭Alteration Skills (Tanking/CC)Alteration seems fun, specifically I'm thinking of new mechanics like Star Wars force push/pull with weight changing magic, expanding underwater with water breathing and swimming, pitch black darkness with light orbs, and of course, alteration shields for Tanking.
However, I would rather see Unhanded be a new weapon skill line first. Summoned weapons, fire vortexes, stunning kicks. Would work well with a Sword Singer update to Redguard...
Edited by Billium813 on July 8, 2023 3:11AM3 -
Kendaric✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭Plants ( Poison flowers, thorny vines)Definitely plants, I'd love to have access of some the faun and druid abilities so I can better simulate druids and reach mages.
Though what I truly want are actual TES magic schools and some of their spells.
Edited by Kendaric on July 8, 2023 8:46AM1 -
Freelancer_ESO✭✭✭✭✭
✭I think it would be better to not lean too heavily into that style of theme as it can easily leave the skill line being too limited in appeal and it can also make some of the existing classes potentially feel lesser.1 -
Lady_Galadhiel✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭Plants ( Poison flowers, thorny vines)As a floriculturist, I would like to see some plant skill line.Total ESO playtime: 8325 hours
ESO plus status: Cancelled
ESO currently uninstalled.0 -
amig186✭✭✭✭✭
✭Artificer Skills (traps and machines)I have no idea how these skills would function practically, but I would like a machine theme. Neramo and Raynor can make functional contraptions, so it stands to reason that you should also be able to learn to do so as well. So far this theme has only really been used with the Mad Tinkerer set, which implies that you can quickly put together suicide fabricants to sic your enemies with. And I know people will disagree with this, but I would really want one of those skills to be a permanent automaton combat pet, even if it will add to a sorc's potential zoo.PC EU4 -
Vhozek✭✭✭✭✭
✭Unarmed.
Old Flurry animation can go into an unarmed skill.
Let Unarmed light and heavy attacks scale with highest attribute.
It's about time we get this skill line.
I've been holding onto a character named Rocky Balmora for AGES.Edited by Vhozek on July 8, 2023 7:32AM𝗡𝗼𝘁 𝘀𝗼𝗿𝗿𝘆, 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝘀. 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗕𝗶𝗿𝗱 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴.6 -
Mesite✭✭✭✭Pet Skills (Beasts/Deadra/Undead)We definitely need new pets.
Perhaps this new skill line could temporarily transform our non combat pets into huge ferocious beasts.
Especially that cute gerbil with the big ears - Alabaster Jerboa.
That would be a sight to see.0 -
I_killed_Vivec✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭chessalavakia_ESO wrote: »I think it would be better to not lean too heavily into that style of theme as it can easily leave the skill line being too limited in appeal and it can also make some of the existing classes potentially feel lesser.
But the idea of a skill line, as apart from a new class, is that it's available to all classes. So you can add the skill to your current class, possibly making up for a deficiency (like Vigor does for stamina based builds that don't have a stam heal), and giving a boost to current classes.
What makes existing classes feel lesser is the introduction of a new class, which usually steals and improves upon existing class skills. These new classes are usually OP on creation, because ZoS want to sell the chapters they are associated with (but generally get hit by the nerf hammer over the course of a year once ZoS have made their money and want to restore a semblance of balance).
I'd like to see a battlemage skill line - you go to battlemage school and end up being able to wield weapons and throw fireballs
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Billium813✭✭✭✭✭
✭Alteration Skills (Tanking/CC)I have no idea how these skills would function practically, but I would like a machine theme. Neramo and Raynor can make functional contraptions, so it stands to reason that you should also be able to learn to do so as well. So far this theme has only really been used with the Mad Tinkerer set, which implies that you can quickly put together suicide fabricants to sic your enemies with. And I know people will disagree with this, but I would really want one of those skills to be a permanent automaton combat pet, even if it will add to a sorc's potential zoo.
I think the best way for ZOS to add an artificer to the game would be as a Bard Class that uses Tonal Resonance tools, Dwemer contraptions, and summoned crystals to create effects on the battlefield. They manipulate tonal frequencies to warp reality and bend time.
https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Tonal_ArchitectureEdited by Billium813 on July 8, 2023 3:43PM3 -
Finedaible✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭Disease/Plague MagicI'll just post again here that I think a Peryite 'Afflicted' skill line using disease and Poison could work. Just make it incompatible with Werewolf and Vampire and give it its own unique bonuses and weaknesses like say resistance to poison/disease and vulnerability to bleeds or something.0 -
Finedaible✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭Disease/Plague MagicBut I have wanted other conjuration skills ever since they showed that summoned familiar and flame Atronach when Spellcrafting was being worked on.3 -
omnidoh✭✭✭Blood Magic (Magic/Bleed)I'd happily trade an entire skill line from nightblade if I had optional blood magic.
This should be de-facto available for Vampires too, or at least some version of it beyond the very small toolkit that Vampires currently have.0 -
kyatos_binarini✭✭✭Alteration Skills (Tanking/CC)alteration skills would be interesting but i think that current sorcerer’s “dark magic” is some sort of alteration magic (or suppose to be) since symbols on sorcerer’s sigil means “alteration, conjugation, shock”Edited by kyatos_binarini on July 8, 2023 8:30PM2
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Finedaible✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭Disease/Plague MagicIt's also worth mentioning that there are very little or no Illusion school spells in the game depending on one's headcanon. Illusion staves would be a prime candidate for example.Edited by Finedaible on July 9, 2023 6:16PM2 -
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✭✭✭✭✭More Elemental Skills (Flame/Ice/Shock)Unarmed Magicka.
It already exists as a skill set for certain enemies. ZOS has already done some of the work, and I'd REALLY love to ditch the staves.
https://youtu.be/_BRTF9PnhBk Edited by ArchMikem on July 9, 2023 6:23PMCP2,200+ Master Explorer - AvA Two Star Warlord - Console Peasant - Khajiiti Aficionado - The Clan
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spartaxoxo✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭Unarmed Magicka.
It already exists as a skill set for certain enemies. ZOS has already done some of the work, and I'd REALLY love to ditch the staves.https://youtu.be/_BRTF9PnhBk
This. Or really anything that fits into stuff from the singe player games.2 -
xXCJsniperXx7✭✭✭Pet Skills (Beasts/Deadra/Undead)Conjuration staffs. I think it would be nice to have elemental atronachs, it would bring some features from the single player ES games here.1
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✭I want more weapons that recharge magic upon usage. It would be really nice to have a magic user who uses something other than a staff. For example, I would love to use a tomb for basic attacks with my Arcanist.1 -
MindOfTheSwarm✭✭✭✭✭
✭Disease/Plague MagicI want more weapons that recharge magic upon usage. It would be really nice to have a magic user who uses something other than a staff. For example, I would love to use a tomb for basic attacks with my Arcanist.
You mean tome right? Sorry, English teacher lol. But yeah a magic book would be cool.
The problem is that ZoS does not want to create new weapons due to the work involved in creating all the motifs.
Unarmed and a new staff would work because unarmed requires no motifs and the staff ones already exist.
They could possibly do wands by cheating and simply shrink and distort the existing staff models but it depends on how it would look.Edited by MindOfTheSwarm on July 10, 2023 3:52AM1 -
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✭Disease/Plague Magicphaneub17_ESO wrote: »Hydromancer. Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink... because I made you drown in it!
I like the sound of this. It would synergise so well with Lightning Staff. But would this be better on a class or some kind of Hedge Mage guild skill line?0 -
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✭✭Artificer Skills (traps and machines)Artificer. I think this would be great. However some skills already have a similar function so it would be more the rpg aspect of it that would by nice.1 -
Rufusstan✭✭✭Blood Magic (Magic/Bleed)Blood magic I think, but like Necromancy, there should be legal consequences to using it in towns0
