For me, the poll has too many options and like often, with too much text restricting the meaning. I'm not even sure what is meant with "anymore werebeasts, cosmetic or otherwise"?

Anyhow. I neither ever touched werewolf nor vampire. I generally don't like disguise/appearance change and using a different skill bar than what I'm used too.
Beside, it would be a "big" feature to implement, meaning the key feature of a patch, so with not much content left aside of it for those not interested. Soooo, egoistically, it's a big no in my case...

For the people who voted number #2

What would additional non-Werebeast skill lines even be? the reason Vampirism and Lycanthropy work is because you get them via contracting an infection first and they can also be removed.

So what would they be? Lichdom, Lichs cannot be cured and they are not the result of contracting something first, Hagravens? Seem to only be female and also not something created from contracting something.

The only other skill lines that would work are Lycanthropy and Vampirism variants.

yea.
i would love to see more Werebeasts, but i would want them to be new skill lines.
or an ultimate Grimoire for the Werewolf skill line.

ultimate Grimoires seem better than skill styles, which are currently only colour changes with occasional effects.

edited to add:
a Vampire ultimate grimoire could give us a Bloodknight transformation which would be cool too, though that's not a different curse or strain i think

Erickson9610 wrote: »

Even if we were to get cosmetics for both Werewolf and Vampire to make them look like different curses/strains, the fact is that they won't play any different, and that's disappointing. And once we get a cosmetic to make one curse look like a second curse, that second curse will never be realized as an actual, playable curse.

See, this I don't have a problem with. I'm more of the school that I'd rather something than nothing.

After all, let's take werebears as an example: what would you envision as their skill line that makes them radically different for werewolves? What about wereboars? What about different Vampire strains?

There is definitely a 0.00000000000000000000001% chance we'd ever get a new werebeast skill line (especially considering how popular it is in the first place), but I could see just swapping the model with a Skill Style being a realistic bone to throw.

Erickson9610 wrote: »

The way I see it, it would respect the legacy of TES lore to introduce some werebeasts other than werewolves and let the players play as them. I wouldn't even mind if we got other strains of vampirism, such as one which has the stages the reversed way around.

I do agree that it'd be a lot of balancing effort just for additional curses that players may not even want to use, and I get why it's currently limited to just Werewolf and Vampire. Cosmetic skins would help as far as werebeasts go, but there's really nothing that reverses the effects of your vampire stage to simulate playing as a vampire of a different strain — there's also no cosmetic skin to change the Blood Scion look into a Vampire Lord look.

If we wanted to be really technical, there is exactly one time in TES history where a werebeast other than a werewolf was playable: wereboars in Daggerfall. And the difference between the werewolf and wereboar was... literally nothing. They were the same apart from the character portrait.
(Yes, the NPC enemies had slightly different stats, with boars being a bit stronger, but the playable ones were the same)

So the only time in TES lore that more werebeasts than werewolves existed, they were strictly cosmetically different. Why, even for a Hircine fan, would it be expected that they'd bother spending the dev time to make more different werebeasts?

As for vampire strains, we had several in various games, but that's just swapping passives around. In the TES world, the vamp strains all pretty well looked and acted the same by game, but they just had different buffs focusing on different skills. Translating that into ESO would mean that... every different strain would just have minor differences in the buffs. Again, that definitely falls into the "not worth it" category.
As a sidenote, one of the main Vvardenfell vampire strains doesn't even exist at this time, since we meet Volrina Quarra and she's not a vampire yet.

Now both Vampires and Werewolves do have a few in-one-single-lore-book-only strains that have never come up in the games, but I don't think that's something to hang your hat on.

So I do think that the only way we'd ever possibly get a different werebeast form is if it were applied as a skill style. And again, that's doing pretty well everything that would be expected, so there's no real reason that they'd need to make a whole new skill line to do 95% the same stuff.

And besides, one of the other things that'd be fun to add eventually would be a Grimoire so werewolves weren't locked into the same 5 skills and could swap one for a 6th. And then, if the only problem that people has is "I don't like to see wereboars pounce!" you would be able to take a different 6th skill instead of the pounce.