Unlike the vampire skill-line, the werewolf one feels complete with a heal, stun, spammable, gap closer, buffs, etc. However, adding a functional ultimate on top of the transformation ultimate would be awesome.

ZOS could add variety to lycanthropy by adding other beast types (Wereshark, Werebat, Werebear, Wereboar, Werecrocodile, Werelion, and Werevulture). This could be akin to different stamina weapons types where the skills function the same, but your form might determine the kind of stats you have while transformed.

Honestly, I personally hate the revamped vampire skill line. In PvP I made full use of the entire OG vampire kit. I loved the gap closer morph of the ultimate, the drain was a fun stun, and mist was a full cost ability that could be trouble if used at the wrong time, but I digress.

Another revamp giving vampire skills the DLC class skill-line treatment of three skill-lines focused on the 3 roles of DPS, healer, and tank would add more vamp flavor to PvE and PvP.

Artim_X wrote: »

Unlike the vampire skill-line, the werewolf one feels complete with a heal, stun, spammable, gap closer, buffs, etc. However, adding a functional ultimate on top of the transformation ultimate would be awesome.

ZOS could add variety to lycanthropy by adding other beast types (Wereshark, Werebat, Werebear, Wereboar, Werecrocodile, Werelion, and Werevulture). This could be akin to different stamina weapons types where the skills function the same, but your form might determine the kind of stats you have while transformed.

Werewolves still lack a lot of tools which normal one or two bar builds can get, including (but not limited to) Minor Resolve, a snare purge/negative effect removal, a taunt, an ally heal, ground effects, and a heal over time. I'd gladly accept more Werewolf skills to try to fill those holes in my build. An in-form Ultimate would be incredible — and to keep the existing functionality where casting the Ultimate reverts your form, it could work like Incapacitating Strike, where you get the new Ultimate when cast at x or more Ultimate, but revert form when cast below x Ultimate.

Other werebeast types may be introduced as a purely cosmetic thing via Skill Styles for the Werewolf Transformation skill. Personally I'd want to be able to change the fur color with Skill Styles, rather than by morph of the ability, but there's no reason why we couldn't get "polymorphs" like other werebeast kinds as well. I'd imagine we'd probably have to wait until we get Solstheim and werebears to see a werebear Skill Style for Werewolf Transformation.

Artim_X wrote: »

Maybe a synergy where an ally can heal themselves by howling when the werewolf howls.

Now that you mention it, a howl synergy for those in Werewolf form makes perfect sense. Wolves often howl together in packs, so what if Hircine's Bounty and its morphs offered a synergy that causes transformed werewolves in your group to also howl? Maybe the effect is a negative effect purge, like the Purify synergy from Cleansing Ritual and its morphs.

I like that Werewolf has a self and ally synergy in the form of Feeding Frenzy, accessed via the Howl of Despair morph of Piercing Howl, but the "howl" in question isn't the kind of howling animation and sound effect you get when you use Hircine's Bounty. Honestly, I don't fully understand why one morph of Werewolf's spammable ability has a synergy tied to it. It grants Empower and Minor Force for 10 seconds, and since each synergy has a 20 second cooldown, at most it's a 50% uptime of those buffs for those who would use the self synergy in their builds.

Hopefully Werewolf can be allowed to have one more synergy — this time, a synergy exclusively for transformed werewolves in the group, and tied to Hircine's Bounty and its morphs to both incentivize players to transform together and howl like werewolves would, and to also provide a needed utility not found within their kit.