I definitely will continue to use scribed skills to fill in gaps in my build. And more scripts could always be added to keep players doing all those dailies!

I was excited for scribing until it came out and the barrier to entry was more than I felt like messing around with. All the quests, then collecting all the different components, and THEN dealing with the low drop rate of luminous inks (please spare me your stories about how luminous inks just rained down from the skies for *your* characters, I'm happy for you, but I really don't care, lol).

All the hurdles just killed the fun for me. Yes, I expected to do *some* work to access the system, but not all that. I just chose not to engage with the whole thing. 🤷‍♂️

Erickson9610 wrote: »

Scribed abilities for Class skill lines would be a good start. Of course, the Werewolf skill line has no Scribing abilities yet, so werewolves still can't use the system yet.

Most likely they intended the system for class skill lines, and they wanted something generic in the beginning to familiarize the players with. I am sure the devs will add abilities with new content, probably themed abilities.

they are sup role bis..
but if you are rp player they really unimportant

SilverBride wrote: »

Scribing has never been a thing for me. I did collect everything on all my characters but not to scribe with. I just like collecting things. And I did finally scribe one skill just to use for endeavors that say defeat so many enemies using scribed skills. But Scribing was never alive for me in the first place.

I get a pain just thinking about having to unlock Scribing. I love quests, and will often repeat them, and I consider the Scribing unlock to be prominent among the quests that I never want to see again. It is a very group of painful, and hopefully forgettable, quests.

The developer intentions to create busy work are too evident and it comes off as low effort and repetitive in terms of quest design and story. It was like they had a minimum player effort level to get to Scribing dictated by game design decisions, but not enough time to do all of it, so they threw in a bunch of unrelated stuff and tried to make it related. In the end, it felt sort of 'Manus Dei', the Hand of the Game Developer. It felt like I was being tasked to do this by some game developer.

I have never repeated it on any other character or account.

In the end, I never needed to. Mostly, I have forgotten about it. There was nothing driving me to use it, and to be honest, I'm not even sure I remember how. I bank the scribing related things, mainly because I am not sure what I can consume, and on which character, what I need to save, and what I can throw away.

It was fun for a while, but I'm not even using them anymore, just my class and weapon skills. It just seems like another thing to grind in this game.

xylena_lazarow wrote: »

Imperial_Archmage wrote: »

Oh I don’t think it’s too soon at all, in fact it was pretty much DoA and little more than a Chapter gimmick. They’ve clearly completely abandoned it

Not at all, they've been gradually adding more elements and affixes, Scribing has had a huge impact on PvP, and discovering the Banner Arcanist DD has me actually trying PvE again.

What have they been adding to Scribing besides the Banner thing? And the system has been out for almost a year now. They haven’t iterated on it at all even though they promised they would and that what was released initially was just the start.

darvaria wrote: »

All these new abilities and NO extra room on skill bar. I went back to mostly playing an oaken Warden.

Too many options ... when there are already more than enough skills to fill bars. An extra skill slot for scribing AND one for subclassing might peak my interest. Rn, I have enough skills.

Hmmm ... is scribing dead? I only use for completing endeavors. I had one skill (repelling explosion) for ball groups but it seems worthless now ... somehow less effective so I don't bother. Easier to just move away.

We won't get additional bar space since this game incorporates controller UIs. There are DPS builds I've seen incorporating scribing and I see banner bearer in almost every trial group I run with so it's being used. I even see scribing referenced in healers haven; it's just not on any of our standard skill slot spots. I don't think your typical overland player has much use for scribing when most of them don't see to use many skills overall during fights.

I like scribing and this is my main worry about the subclass system, it will make scribing obsolete. As said, you only have so many slots, especially when I use primarily one bar builds. (age restrictions, you know)

I love Scribing and use it - ironically for RP reasons. Sometimes if, between a scribed skill and a different skill, most things are equal, then I will use the scribed skill for the finer control over what it does, including the looks.

I like scribing, but it never really took off for me. I mainly used it for niche builds for BRP and IA, neither of which I do terribly often. The original was use-case of filling the gaps with builds was solid, but subclassing will be a better option because the skills are stronger. Like, I wanted a DK to have a burst heal, so I used scribing to fill that gap. Now, I'll just spec into Templar and get more passives.

I have found more uses for Scribing in PvP so far. Less uses for PvE, but there is a lot of potential there if they release skills/grimoires that aren't cumbersome to add to a rotation.

Finedaible wrote: »

I have found more uses for Scribing in PvP so far. Less uses for PvE, but there is a lot of potential there if they release skills/grimoires that aren't cumbersome to add to a rotation.

Every trial I’m in has at least 2-3 DPS running banner bearer so it has uses in PVE. In one of the builds I’m running on a DPS toon I’m using both Ulfsild’s contingency and banner bearer.

LalMirchi wrote: »

For me Scribing is fun and far fram dead. Perhaps the OP wishes it to die because they do not like it?

I use Scribing in PVP, which you would have known if you read my response. I know, tough code to crack

I never used scribing outside PvP, but I'm kind of disappointed it's not being invested more into over subclassing. I've been running a lot of vet dungeons on my magblade lately, and I've been wanting a magic cleave spammable for trash fights. Something like Silver Shards. My first thought was to use traveling knife, but magic damage and multi target are both focus scripts. I then tried torchbearer, but everything, even if it's considered magic damage, only costs stamina. So I'm pretty much left with Sap Essence or Soul Burst which lets me make Power Extraction except have it cost magicka.