They do affect damage type, AoE, DoT, etc. skill effects are just on top of that.
Hopefully this system leads to them adding styles that change that. I've always hated that about warden.
100% I would buy a complete re-skin of the Arcanist I'm not going to lie.
Yep! They got fed up of people like me asking for spellblade weapons, like one hand and spell, rather than being forced to use staffs on magicka builds. So now your damage from all weapons AND all skills scales with the higher of your weapon or spell damage. So even skills that cost stamina will scale with spell damage and max magicka if that's higher. Just keep in mind that a spammable dual wield skill like flurry or spin-to-win will be hard to maintain on magicka builds since they still cost stamina to cast, limiting sustained use of them. But it's massively improved build options and variety =)
Darien and Stibbons too though! I think Daggerfall has great characters. AD are pretty good too though. It's EP that was lacking.
You'd probably enjoy the High Isle quest line then =D
It's funny you say that because the Tamriel Rebuilt team are convinced they took their Necrom city tileset design from them. They're pretty sure they've taken a few things related to Morrowind from them.
I think so too! Just not the environment design sadly. I have a strong suspicion the city design of Necrom was inspired by TR's Blacklight for example:
Lol it annoys me so much. The scaling is horrendous and yeah it's not even a peninsula. Apocrypha should have been Deadlands sized IMHO there's not a whole lot going on there and the "peninsula" bigger. If you're going to make a small zone don't scale it up on the map…I'm FINALLY checking out Necrom properly. I'm still mostly annoyed by it. They called the zone the Telvanni Peninsula when it's not the Telvanni Peninsula at all (that's further north of here) but is instead House Indoril lands. Which leaves no land available for an Indoril Chapter, but does leave land for an actual Telvanni Peninsula Chapter, but naming issues now means they can't do that either. And rather than dig into the environment's existing lore, maybe take inspiration from what the Tamriel Rebuilt TES3 mod team have done with the environment in this region, or create something wholly unique, they've just made the entire zone a copy/pasting of the Azura's Coast biome, from coast to coast. And just like they did with Summerset, they made the zone far too small so you can run from west coast to east in a matter of seconds.
Bleugh.
ZOS are an odd bunch when it comes to the lore. Sometimes they treat it like gospel and treat it with even more respect and adoration than I imagine BGS would, and deliver zones like the Clockwork City and Elsweyr (furstocks!!!). While other times they seem to just wipe their asses with the lore, flush it down the shitter, and deliver something wholly derivative like we got with Summerset and Necrom. I really can't figure them out.
But hey, coming across Kemel-Ze was cool at least, even if their game engine prevents them creating the verticality it really needed. Still awesome to come across such huge lore landmarks like this.
YES! Dozens of us =D
I don't think we'll ever get spears =( But one handed styles are certainly possible since they'd use existing item models. Spears would require literally hundreds of new models to be made, and adds to future workload for all new motifs. One handed just fits right in quite neatly.
I would not expect them to do every style of spears. They could add to base racial motifs and then on new motifs going forward. I just love the idea of my Templar having spears in addition to their class spear skills it would blend together much better than switching from daggers to a magical spear.
But then what do all the other hundreds of sets have their spears look like? You can't just not have spears for those sets, so they'd need some kind of fallback default look that they all share? And that might not bother those of us at endgame who transmog everything, but for newer players that's not a great idea if every spear they find while levelling looks identical.
I would only expect spears to be in newer sets. Obviously not feasible to do it for all of the old ones.
Right, but then you're locking spear players out of 99% of possible set pairings. There's no good solution =(
I suppose they could add to BiS but I'd also say the newer content not being BiS is hurting them. Nothing in the last trial seems to be needed. Relequen can't be the best forever.
It's only best in slot for static dummies that live longer than 30 seconds and don't hit back =P But yeah, I'd love some similar sets so meta theorists at least change the tune a bit.
Hopefully they get it sorted for you. Usually the support team are really prompt at these things and quite considerate. Are you able to send a follow-up?
Hoping they are adding that in Q4 and that's why the companions were moved as they have backlog work to do with the other ones. They said they wanted to do it when companions were introduced in Blackwood. And they said they had plans to bring old companions back for additional voice work.
That's a more positive outlook on the companion delay than I gave them 😂
I wouldn't say my view is entirely optimistic because I also expect the companions will not be a separate charge priced around a dungeon DLC.
