When subclassing came out, I saw 100k parse videos consisting of Heavy Attacks and absolutely nothing else. No pets, no skill casts, no gear set procs, etc. Pure classes, even with class mastery, can NEVER reach 100k with just heavy attacks.

If anything, pure classes should be buffed FURTHER to balance out subclassing.

Pure class bonuses are some of the most overtuned obnoxious bonuses that ESO has ever produced.

Been having a lot of fun in BG's with a good mix of pure and subclass builds. Shield stacking sorcs are annoying. Time is a wheel.

Making Pure classes meta in PVE again was the best move ZoS could have done.

Now I play Sorc, Templar, Necro and Blade again with different builds and setups. This is way more engaging and fun than 1 boring subclass setup on all characters.

Raid comp isn't 8 Arcs anymore, we have every class now.

A lot of old players I haven't seen in years came back, player numbers in general increased.

In my opinion subclassing should be removed entirely. It was a mistake.

Fantalior wrote: »

Pure classes are currently quite strong in ESO. However, it is notable that two "skill points"—rather than just one—can be allocated within the Class Mastery tree. I wonder if the intention was to also award a point to characters who retain at least two of their original class skill trees—effectively a "2/3 class" setup. This would also be a good way to better balance Class Mastery against the subclass system. What do you think of this idea? Could it help make the subclass system more attractive? At the very least, the extra effort involved in owning and leveling up different classes ought to be rewarded.

No. Subclassing is strong enough. The reason pureclasses are so strong NOW is because they didn't want to do what SHOULD have been done in the first place, which was remove subclassing. They also didn't want to nerf it to the point that it was pointless because the people who do like it would be upset. So the only thing they could do is leave subclassing in a broken state, and make pure classing just as broken to be on an even playing field with subclassing.

This is what I have been saying the whole time as to why their approach to this situation is wrong. If you don't address the elephant in the room - subclassing - which is broken, and you instead use it as a measuring bar against which you balance all other things, everything else is inevitably going to be broken as well.

Sorry, Subclassing can cherry pick the best skill lines. Pureclass need some jucy mastery options. But I do belive they will give them a makeover again.

Subclassing should be removed. They never should have done it in the first place. Nothing has chased more people out of the game. Subclassing should not have access to Class sets let alone Class Passives. Subclassing is a broken cherry picking system that can not and will not ever be balanced.