Mr_Madness wrote: »

Spins around and shoots lightning

I'd rather have a Grimoire called Summon Atronach, that lets you summon the flame (Flame damage focus) and wind versions (Physical damage focus), while Sorcerer keeps the Storm Atronach as a class ultimate.

Elvenheart wrote: »

Is this thread asking for a polymorph?

More like a Skill Style.

randconfig wrote: »

Mr_Madness wrote: »

Spins around and shoots lightning

I'd rather have a Grimoire called Summon Atronach, that lets you summon the flame (Flame damage focus) and wind versions (Physical damage focus), while Sorcerer keeps the Storm Atronach as a class ultimate.

I'd rather have this as well. That Storm Atronach is distinct to the skill line, so lets have something a bit different. Of course that also begs the question, what happens if you add shock damage to the supposed Scribed skill?

randconfig wrote: »

Mr_Madness wrote: »

Spins around and shoots lightning

I'd rather have a Grimoire called Summon Atronach, that lets you summon the flame (Flame damage focus) and wind versions (Physical damage focus), while Sorcerer keeps the Storm Atronach as a class ultimate.

This Grimoire should be for the Daedric Summoning skill line, so it's native to Sorcerers and people who Subclass into Daedric Summoning. It's also arguably the most thematic skill line for this Grimoire.

The problem with offerring an Air Atro as a Skill Style is that it doesn't share the skeleton of the Storm Atro. It wouldn't be able to be a style for it unless they completely changed one morph totally.

That's the major issue with Skill styles for Pets in the first place - you need to have the same basic shape so the AI and skeleton are the same, otherwise it could lead to issues with balance. As an example, I know everyone and their mother wants a Style that would trade the flappy with a nixad or something, but the nixads are much smaller, and therefore harder to target in PvP, and that would 100% lead to justified P2W complaints.

There's not much they could do to the combat pets in the skill style department that aren't simple recolors. You could probably justify model swaps that are the same relative size and use the same animations (e.g. I think the Giant Bat enemies use the Winged Twilight animations so a swap of the flappy for a Bat might work), but not much beyond that. Now that would allow some creativity - see all the different mounts we have that use the "Heavyweight" animation style - but Styling will not ever make the flappy stop flapping.
(Best you can hope for is that people universally Subclass that line off in exchange for something else)

SilverIce58 wrote: »

Elvenheart wrote: »

Is this thread asking for a polymorph?

More like a Skill Style.

randconfig wrote: »

Mr_Madness wrote: »

Spins around and shoots lightning

I'd rather have a Grimoire called Summon Atronach, that lets you summon the flame (Flame damage focus) and wind versions (Physical damage focus), while Sorcerer keeps the Storm Atronach as a class ultimate.

I'd rather have this as well. That Storm Atronach is distinct to the skill line, so lets have something a bit different. Of course that also begs the question, what happens if you add shock damage to the supposed Scribed skill?

Maybe as a grimoire the Atronach that you summon would be determined by the type of damage you select for the spell.