Similar to me wanting more Race specific stuff.

I'm not sure how I feel about this. WoW had class quests and class halls and class specific gear, but something like that may not work well with ESO.

How would this work? Would it just be quests or would there be some of these other features, too?

Yeah, no idea how it would work, so I'm kinda on the same page as everyone here so far. It could work; it could not. I would def prefer QoL improvements over this for the time being, but if they could figure something out in the future, it feel it could potentially be pretty awesome.

Admittedly, I haven't really gotten into other MMOs. What do these quests/systems look like elsewhere? And does anyone have any idea how it could translate to ESO?

How long before "nerf sorc class rewards!", "buff templar class rewards!", "NB class rewards are OP!", "I don't want to play a necro, but I want the pet!"... "what happened to 'play the way you want'?", "this breaks PvE/PvP (delete as appropriate) balance!".

I_killed_Vivec wrote: »

How long before "nerf sorc class rewards!", "buff templar class rewards!", "NB class rewards are OP!", "I don't want to play a necro, but I want the pet!"... "what happened to 'play the way you want'?", "this breaks PvE/PvP (delete as appropriate) balance!".

Oh, I suspect this would happen in the PTS!

Also, I wouldn't want the rewards to be anything other than cosmetic (probably ... balancing is already a hot mess for the devs to deal with as is) cause that's a whole other can of worms as you said.

Yes, please. We already have quests themed around necromancy*, illusion, sword singing, tonal architecture, Druidic/wyrd magic, thaumavocalism, arcanism and one of the Eleven Forces acknowledged by the Psijic Order.

Let’s more of that, but explaining the distinctive magic that our player characters and companions use.


*While there are a lot of necromancy themed quests, they don’t offer much explanation for the spells we have as players. I think that one of the Reach tribes in Rift was doing something that resembled living death.

Whereas Azandar explicitly experiments with fate magic as an arcanist.

Having a few unique quests and stuff based on our classes would be pretty cool. I'll throw my +1 into this

I like to quest with my friends. So, quests about Templar lore or helping a Templar dig into the past would be welcome. Quests that only Templars could see? Seems like a bummer if my friend is, say, a Warden.

In general I'm not a fan of content that forces you to be solo or grouped. I like it when you can play how you like and the game doesn't lock down settings so you can be creative. Quest solo or in groups. Enter a dungeon solo or in groups. While I like the companion quest stories, they annoy me from the perspective that I must find time to do them when I'm not playing with friends because we can't do them together. I don't want more of that.

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It sounds good, but I wonder how they would approach some of the classes. IIRC, Dragonknights were once called Imperial Dragonknights. Would they force your character to have ties to the Empire? That doesn't really make sense for some races. Or what about Templars. Apparently they are generally connected with Stendarr, but what if your character has a different preferred Aedra, like for example Auri-El, who is also associated with the sun and light magic? It could kill a bit of your role-playing freedom if they forced these things on you.

I agree with this. I don't play my NB as stealth assassin, but I bet this is the flavour they would give a NB class story. Would not be interesting for me if it turns out that way.

I'd like if they could tie them into the companion quests. I don't have or want a ton of alts so it would be cool if as part of their leveling, the companions could give a preview of how a class works.

I don't think it would work.

SWTOR's system for it was awesome but, it also wasn't really financially sustainable.

The thing is, every time you make a class quest only that class gets to do it which means many of the players will never benefit from it.

As a result, without an absolutely massive player base it quickly becomes of questionable financial viability.

You also run into the issue that what players want from the classes also doesn't necessarily align.

For example, I used to primarily play Warden's because the class was easy to play in an open ended fashion. You have other players that like Warden's because they like the idea of killing things with Ice and still others that like it due to it's associations with nature ect.

Creating content that all of us would like could provide to be challenging.

SWTOR somewhat mitigated that problem by having situations where players could make choices but, again this raises the cost of development and it didn't fully work.

Further, in ESO it could also come across as a bit contrived how only a certain class could do a thing or it might clash with character identity.

For example, most of my Nightblades were intended to be sneaky characters that are mostly mundane. Doing class quests that are exclusive to my class because you need shadow magic to do them might clash a bit.