The future of The Elder Scrolls Online is currently being negotiated at the headquarters of Zenimax. A “Guild Summit” is taking place there, a guild summit. Fans were presented with details about the combat system and crafting: Two new crafting styles will be introduced. With update 5, there will also be a powerful new item set.
20 guild or community leaders have been invited by Zenimax to the “Guild Summit” at the headquarters. Zenimax wants to be very close to the fans. The leading minds in development are presenting the planned changes and discussing them with the fans. A summary of the presentations from the first day has now appeared on Tamrielfoundry. It is so packed with information about the planned changes coming in the next months that we decided to present it piece by piece.
Combat System in The Elder Scrolls Online: Improve Flow, Give Actions Weight
The planned changes to the combat system in TESO revolve around the flow, the sequence of individual actions. It is intended to be smoother, but with small pauses between combat steps.
The author of Tamrielfoundry, who watched the video presentation, noted that combat with two weapons now looks the coolest and that each staff has received its own combat animation. Moreover, it now seems as if the individual actions really have “weight”.
Two New Crafting Styles: Dwemer and Xivyn
The next section of the presentation focused on the crafting system of Tamriel:
- Crafting tutorials are to be introduced.
- Crafting quests are coming that will not only provide inspiration and materials but also a type of treasure map that leads to a special resource chest.
- Dwemer will soon be available as a new crafting style, with materials obtained from dismantling Dwemer constructs.
- With the Imperial City, there comes another new crafting style, named Xivyn – this is the official name for the “Imperial Deadraic” style, which has been announced for some time.
- With update 5, a new 5-piece item set will be introduced, allowing two Mundus stones to be active simultaneously when fully worn.
The Imperial City is not expected to arrive with update 5, but rather soon, as was mentioned by community manager Kai Schober in the official TESO forum, though not at the Guild Summit. If all goes well, the Imperial City should be the next major zone added to The Elder Scrolls Online.
We will keep you updated on the latest in The Elder Scrolls Online in the coming hours and days. It looks like we are about to be flooded with information, after the last few weeks have been relatively quiet since Quakecon. There, extensive changes to The Elder Scrolls Online were presented. It seems we are now receiving the details, as if they were connecting some points that have been somewhat lonely in the air.
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