i would love to see more combat pets.
But i think it would be odd to see a Harpy or Nixad with the Twilight Matriarch nametag.


i would rather we get Combat Pet Grimoires.
and have Skill Styles continue to only change the colours and/or effects of a skill.


edited to add:
Werebear aren't in ESO yet.
They'd therefore probably also have different animations and use another skeleton than Werewolf.
so seems better suited for either
- a Lycanthropy Grimoire Ultimate.
- another Skill line.
would love to see them get added though.

There's also Werebats, but i doubt ZOS would let us fly like them.

Blood Scion would probably be fine as a Skill Style as the only difference seems to be no wings.

I think the base creature should always remain the same, but there are some minor alterations which I think are acceptable:

• Texture swaps (like Feral Guardian, Slate-Gray and the upcoming Feral Guardian, Snow Bear skill style)
• VFX changes (like the transparent glowing red of Summon Winged Twilight, Warrior)
• Model swaps that retain the same animations (like those Blood Scion enemies who wear extra armor while transformed, or those Skeletal Werewolf enemies who still use the basic Werewolf animations)

For the most part: yes. Go nuts with Skill Styles. That's a great way to add customization, and is a perfect place for them to monetize as well.

I think there are two classes of Pets in ESO: those that are essentially spawned extra characters with AI (like the Sorc permanent pets or things like the Maw proc), and those that are essentially skill VFX (like the Warden birds or shalks). Because of the way the game works - and makes some AI pets targetable, it'll be a lot harder to do a full model swap for the AI ones than the others.

I know people hate the Sorc flappy, but changing her model too much will lead to a lot of "P2W" complaints in PvP. She would need to still use the same skeleton and size, so there's not too much that can be done with her beyond standard recolors. They might be able to model swap with something that uses the same skeleton (I think the Giant Bat mobs use a similar skeleton that could work out), but it will probably not be possible to swap her into something totally different like a nixad... which also means the "please make her smaller!" argument is pretty well out.

As for the other type, you have a lot more flexibility since those are more spell effects than anything else. I could totally see a Warden skill style that swaps the shalks into like moles or something, and I'd totally buy a Cliff Racer style that changed them into birds of prey like eagles or hawks. That seems totally possible.

As for things like the Werewolf - colors are a given (and the three default colors should 100% be in and free). Model swaps there... again, you'd pretty well be constrained by the skeleton and animations. Still, I do think that changing the beast slightly would work, and we have a few good ones. The werebats from ESO wouldn't - they're renamed Giant Bats in the first place. But I could totally see werebears working fine, and I could even argue wereboars. Those two specifically I'd also love to see since those were the two major non-wolf wereforms we've seen in the TES series - wereboars in Daggerfall (they were playable and technically stronger than wolves), and werebears in Skyrim's Dragonborn DLC (where they weren't playable without a mod, but there were quests involving them). Those should absolutely be paid (and give me my bear and I will pay whatever for it).

Yes, I can already hear people going "but bears don't pounce!" My response: shut up, I don't care. There are plenty of claw swipes in the werewolf kit that it'd end up looking fine overall. It would require ZOS to make a new model for those two forms though, so I could totally see a werebear/wereboar as a 'premium' Skill Style with a premium price. Heck, I'd even be okay if they still howled (but if they did also change the sounds as well, it'd be worth even more...)

My secondary is a werewolf in game, but in his lore he's a werebear. I would kill to get a brown werebear style for his transformation. Seriously, if ZOS ever gave that to me, even if all it was was a bear-shaped werewolf, I don't care. I would straight up write a blank check to ZOS for that. I need my character to finally look like he's supposed to.
(and yes, Skyrim mods proved that just swapping the werewolf model with a werebear and just keeping all of the wolf animations looks 100% fine)

Been waiting to ZOS release storm atronach animal skins for winged twilights, familiars and clannfears for a while now. Maybe someday...

I wouldn't be opposed to a couple of these designed to address people's issues with the those skills. But I'd much rather them make new pets with scribing. I also wouldn't just kind new effects/colors on the existing models. For example, letting us change werewolf fur color pattern.

As long as you can still tell what skill it is. A snow leopard instead of a bear, a different clannfear instead of the clannfear we have, a storm atronach creature instead of matriarch. Those would make sense.