I don’t hate ESO’s combat, but I don’t love it. I’d much rather my character only turn when I have the right mouse button down, and there are a lot of times where I’m left wondering if my fireball actually hit the things I was pointing at or if it fell just short.
That said, shooter/action camera has always felt unwieldy to me. So, while it feels watered down because you’re only seeing five skills at a time, if you think of it as having a ten slot bar with two different ultimate choices it’s not that different from other modern MMOs.
Technically, that’s potentially more usable skills than WildStar or Guild Wars 2. The main, numbered games’ combat boils down to “click to attack, click longer to attack harder.” ESO’s combat is a little more interesting, with five skill slots and an ultimate, times two swappable bars. GW2’s combat feels a lot better to me–I feel like I’m given better feedback when I’m doing something right, which makes me feel more like I know what I’m doing–but ESO has a lot more of the situational awareness/dodge-the-red-circles component, especially in dungeons (to a much more reasonable degree than WildStar).Ĭombat has, in my opinion, always been a weak point in The Elder Scrolls franchise.
GW2 leans more toward the traditional, WoW-style tab target, whereas ESO leans more toward shooter-style action combat (which reflects the roots of each). Two MMOs’ combat styles remind me a little of WildStar, and those are Guild Wars 2 and Elder Scrolls Online. Too bad WildStar’s developers decided that the best thing to do with their excellent combat was to push people into ultra-hardcore endgame raiding, leading to its ultimate demise. It wasn’t everyone’s cup of tea, but it certainly was mine. It was an awesome mix of action and tab target where position mattered, and you were constantly ducking out of red telegraphs. Personally, my all time favorite combat in any MMO was WildStar. I prefer tab targeting.” I was kind of torn about which side to take.
One guildie started gushing about the combat, about how fluid and active and engaging it is, and another responded with “Eh… it’s ok. I was running some public dungeons with my guild in Elder Scrolls Online the other day, and we started talking about all the stuff we liked about the game.
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