Rufusstan wrote: »

Blood magic I think, but like Necromancy, there should be legal consequences to using it in towns

We already have Blood Magic.

Spear.
This game could use some more thrusting and sweeping attacks.
It's fascinating how the MMO version of a TES game doesn't have nearly every conceivable type of basic weapon imaginable. NONE of the races have discovered spears or what?

I would like to see an Instrument Skill line, like a Bard / Skald or Minstrel. Buffing group with Music or CC/Mezmerise Enemies with it.

We don't need more skill lines. People don't use all the options they have now.

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I only vote pet skills because I feel absolutely robbed with how ZOS implemented the necormancer class. No permanent pets, and the only one which lasts a respectable amount of time is the skeletal arcanist/archer. It's pathetic. Most of our damage should've been coming from multiple pets we have to summon and empower, but instead we're basically just an edgier sorc that has no mobility skills.

So pet skills all the way. Give me some interesting undead minions or daedric servants.

While any new skill line available to existing characters would be a neat addition, i'm leaning towards a a new weapon or two.
10 years and still the same weapons the game started out with.

I started a necromancer and i started an arcanist, but having to use the same weapons over and over again, has, for me, made the game feel a little stale.

And Deadlands would have been an awesome opportunity to introduce Daedric Crescents.

BXR_Lonestar wrote: »

How about illusion magic? Something for everyone.

Paralyze - for cc/tanking.
Haste - for healers to help increase group movement speed and dps
Inspire/motivate - increase damage for DPS
Chameleon - reduce detection radius while sneaking (thematic utility ability)

A lot of that stuff would work. The main issue with CC abilities is that no one would really use them that often. I’m all for Alteration and Illusion, but they might be better served in a new class tank line.

I'd like to see combat pet/minion summons that aren't class specific, preferably in the form of what was announced in 2014 for Spellcrafting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY_Ei0VOJU4

I would rather see some new weapon skill lines. Ones that use existing assets, I in no way expect Zenimax to actually create 600 new weapon styles for three polearm variants.

The glaringly available configurations are Unarmed and a one-handed style. Some kind of non-rendered wristband could easily fill the weapon slot of the unarmed hand to work with the existing system while enabling various kung-fu or brawling fantasies.

One-handed could easily work in two distinct skill lines (with a different off-hand item): a stamina-based Duellist and a Magicka based Spellsword. Having a melee weapon skill that can regenerate magicka on heavy attacks and use magicka with its weapon abilities is an obvious direction to take a new weapon skill, and certainly appeals to me more than staves.

I guess weilding two of the magicka weapon items could work for an unarmed magicka skill line as well. Whether that means striking physically like some kind of magickal monk, or juggling the elements about yourself in a CQC vortex.

Zodiarkslayer wrote: »

All of them!

Best answer.

TaSheen wrote: »

I'm personally not interested in skill lines.

Do you uh, just light and heavy attack?

NolansGoons wrote: »

It's a shame how few tool-machine-trap based abilities there are. Can try your best to make-do with fighter's guild trap and crossbow, and PvP caltrops, but as far as I can think that's all there really is in terms of skills that use/place mundane knickknacks. Of course there's a few sets that match the bill, like the handful of dwemer construct ones, but in my mind the skill line wouldn't necessarily be all dwemer-tech themed, more of a rooted treasure-hunter tree with a mix of cc, damage, and support abilities to choose from... But this is all a pipe-dream, honestly I'm not sure there's any place in the game for a new class-independent skill line at the moment. Honestly, I just wish they'd make frost DPS a decent viable build option, or rework destro staves entirely (I mainly use staves, and I'm tired of fire and lightning being the only fun ones to use as a DPS)

I agree that Destro Staves need a rework. I used to think that they needed to be split up into three separate lines but the issue is skill point allocation would be harder. Instead they need to diversify the skill more than they are currently and perhaps even have totally different skills dependant on equipped staff.

But I guess they could separate them out into three lines, would technically create extra skills as now their ground DoT effects would be able to stack.