Thank you so much 🩷

edited to add:
Beautiful concept images!



- Scorch Gryphon!
- Lotus with seasonal versions!
- Spriggan!
all looks good and i am happy to finally see something and know more about my favourite class' refresh.


Personally i am fine with Templar being before Sorcerer, i am interested in all classes. Good to know that change early enough.

Like the visual changes, also Templar before Sorc, heck yes.

I'm excited for the Templar rework being moved up! I would need a Class Change Token to really care about other classes, though.

Looks good! Appreciate some of the abilities being shown off already.

Warden Renaissance

Thanks for this post. The WIP concept images and clips are something that other studios have shared in blog posts like this one, which are often met with positive feedback. Hope we see more of this going forward.

As far as the warden refresh goes, I think the concepts the team is working with are fine. I will say that watching the footage, the new "scorch" animation is very offputting to me. It takes up a large amount of the caster's screen (visual clutter), and the damage does not sync with the animation. Perhaps the latter complaint here is just a WIP issue that will be resolved.

Is there any chance that future reworks can have their mechanical sides delivered before their animation sides? I can appreciate how difficult a time this must be for the studio, and it's understandable things are being impacted. But with no release date for this rework, it does not bode well for the timeline of the future reworks after warden. The negative impact these delays are having on PVP and PVE cannot be understated - I have friends leaving the game in droves, and I myself will likely be taking a break for U51. People just do not want play in an environment where only 1-2 classes are viable, and everything else is left 2 tiers below them. If it were possible to bring the power level of the reworked DK for example to the other classes before they receive the animation overhauls, it would massively alleviate the frustrations I'm seeing amongst the general PVP population.

Amazing work! Already loving the new visuals!

Cool effects for the warden. It's very interesting that Lotus has 4 variations. I wonder if Lotus will be an active skill used in combos now? I'm wondering if there will be a seasonal combo system where you can cast skills in certain order and get certain effects. Like using a spring skill first makes the next skill summer, and deals extra burst damage or something. Using a fall skill first makes the next skill winter and deal more chill procs.

I love the new stuff shown, but I do have to say that I don't think the gryphon is a particular improvement over shalks. I actually think that I prefer shalks on scorch as I find that more visually appealing. And it feels much more in line with Dive, but I'm assuming you got rid of that one if this is the new scorch.

Assuming we get another morph for something other than a gryphon, based on the seasons, maybe it won't look as bad but that's the only replacement I feel is unnecessary. Like in game the shalks look and feel good to use I feel like it's the last skill in the game I'd have expected to get overhauled to that extent.

Otherwise, everything else, especially lotus flower and Betty netch look promising and pretty. Especially the thought of maybe is getting all seasonal morphs of multiple skills? I wonder how the logistics of that will work.

I love everything I'm seeing except for the Gryphon. Idk it replacing Scorch just doesn't really make sense to me. It flies in like Dive does. Shouldn't it replace the cliff racer? I actually really liked the shalk beetles. They could have been replaced with a Thunderbug, aren't those everywhere in Tamriel?

The Spriggan pet is fun at least, giving what looks like a burst heal with the speed it goes off. And I love the floating Netch buddy, and the winter form of Lotus Flower. Those ice petals look so sick, I might have to pure class my Ice Warden back to use it. All in all, great work, I'm just confused on the Gryphon not replacing Dive.

What I want to know is why did a DLC class get a refresh before the base game classes?

It looks awesome, but I'm still a bit sad that we don’t even have a rough estimate of when it will be released. I know there are valid reasons for the delay, but waiting for who knows how long is disheartening. Especially considering that the second half of 2026 looks pretty sparse in terms of content... I’ll wait anyway, but I’d feel better if I had any idea how long this waiting time would be.

I will be sad to lose the current animations because I’m so used to them but… these do look very pretty! I like the growing sigil on scorch, I feel like that’s a great way to improve accessibility on the skill for both the caster and a recipient in PvP to know when the ability is going to go off.

I find the spriggan strange because it seems to just be a lot of visual for… a burst heal? If it’s going to take up so much visual real estate, I figured it was going to do more than briefly appear and affect one person. I could see it more if it’s an AoE effect because the recipient should be aware of AoEs but they don’t really need to witness themselves getting burst healed, they see their health bar.

I will miss the colored netch beams, it was cool seeing what morph people use, fun to run around with it chasing me, and I loved the colors… but I’m glad we still get netch!!! I love netch, it’s so cute.

Schlaflos wrote: »

And while you’re at it, get rid of the Gate — let’s be honest, nobody uses it anyway.

One more thing, this is perhaps the thing that concerns me the most about the rework, even more than my character identity as a cryomage. I know there are people who claim no one uses frozen gate. I assure you, people do. The tank morph has been meta in arenas to pull enemies once they step out of the portal, which is a cool interaction but not so overpowered that someone using a regular chain is disadvantaged. The “teleport to player” is used in social contexts in overland to get people to fun locations (ex. top of wayshrines). PLEASE don’t get rid of it! The pull is buggy and doesn’t always pull, so it certainly could be improved, but the conceptual functionality of both morphs are lovely. If you feel the need to change the skill into a damaging one like some people have desired, pleaaassseeee make the “teleport to player” portal a psijic or mages guild skill.

GRYPHON!!!!
This makes me extremely happy. Perhaps I'll sub again when the Warden rework has a release date.