Can we get an upgrade for some abilities visual effects that are obnoxious, outdated or kinda lazy?

Benemime · August 2023

I don't know much about the other classes other than Warden and Sorc, but, regarding some of the warden skills:

1. Warden Arctic Blast/Polar Wind animation is annoying because it basically takes the whole screen with an ugly wind. The wind is not even pretty because it has sharp/pointed edges so it's not as "circular", looks like a triangle breeze (ok i'm obviously exaggerating, but that animation is obtrusive and looks kinda outdated and unpolished).

2. Budding Seeds. It's just a regular flower that I've literally seen the same flower on places like Glenumbra, so the flower is a reused model commonly seen in the game, making the skill less special, like zooming the model of the flower is just meh...

3. The Netch skill is one of the worst in the game, it's clunky, slow and has an annoying animation. Mages guild entropy all the way, hate to recast that thing (the Netch skill is good tho).

4. Last but not least, am I the only one annoyed with how Animal Companion abilities are Morrowind fauna based...like...i don't even know what morrowind looks like and here I am casting all of the morrowind fauna to fight alongside me. I get that the class was made to sell Morrowind, but shouldn't we move on already? And the lack of cosmetics and skins for the Bear, so much time and we only have 1 bear skin that is the grey one, it shouldn't be hard to implement something like a jaguar/leopard/wolf/or whatever skin or some cool accessories for the bear...

FriedEggSandwich · August 2023

I think spell crafting is coming in a future update. I'm not even sure of this, and obviously I have no idea how it will work, but it could include the ability to change the aesthetics of abilities. I think pet skins are a good idea, but there are only 3 or 4 combat pets in the game, so if something that cool was implemented it should probably include more than just pets.

Necrotech_Master · August 2023

i bet a lot of people are going to say "careful what you wish for" and bring up the templar jabs animation or flurry animation as proof lol

BasP · August 2023

Having more skins for the bear would be nice for sure. My Frostden would love to be accompanied by a polarbear (that preferably deals frost damage, but that's another discussion entirely).

I do like the current look of Arctic Blast though.

fizl101 · August 2023

Necrotech_Master wrote: »

i bet a lot of people are going to say "careful what you wish for" and bring up the templar jabs animation or flurry animation as proof lol

You typed it for me

LunaFlora · August 2023

i also wish warden had the option for non morrowind fauna

merpins · August 2023

Totally agree. They should update Templar Jabs. Just a thought, but maybe a spear of light that attacks four times, rather than this outdated animation that attacks 3 times. I can imagine the new animation now, almost like I've seen it before...

Necrotech_Master · August 2023

fizl101 wrote: »

Necrotech_Master wrote: »

i bet a lot of people are going to say "careful what you wish for" and bring up the templar jabs animation or flurry animation as proof lol

You typed it for me

my hope is that one day they can actually introduce alternate animations for class skills, along the same lines as "customized actions" we get now as alternate harvesting or teleporting animations

then if they wanted to introduce or change an animation slightly, people could choose which one they wanted

with jabs i understand they needed to adjust the animation going from 4 to 3 hits, but the spear model change was kind of unnecessary, at this point they could give us an alternate 3 hit animation

the only problem i could see with stuff like this is all of it would likely have to be bought from the crown store or thrown in crown crates