Elder Scrolls Online
With Guild Wars 2 already stealing subscribers from WoW with its unique take on online gaming like for instances no subscriptions, the last thing WoW needs right now would be a new mmo to worry about. Well sadly for WoW The Elder Scrolls online is building up to be an interesting game. Elder Scrolls online is scheduled for release next year with no news on if it’s subscription based or not.
Elders Scroll Online will take place 1000 years before the events of Skyrim. After the events of Oblivion the empire has no ruler so the other races have formed separate alliances to fight both the empire and each other. The three alliances are the Aldmeri Dominion, the Daggerfall Covenment and Ebonheart Pact. Also to make thing worse the Daedric Prince Molag Bal is using something called Dark Anchors in an attempt to merge all of Tamriel with his realm of Oblivion and has also stolen your characters soul.
Elders Scrolls Online will allow players to fully explore all of Tamriel with each of the countries having all of their main cities. The game will also feature the four main guilds for players to join so my guess is the Dark Brotherhood is going to be a pretty packed guild.
Elders Scrolls online will have plenty of enemies to fight with certain monsters only being in certain places like the Giants and their Mammoths only being in Skyrim. Fans of the older games will recognise monsters from previous games as well like the spider daedra from Oblivion. Werewolves and vampires are also confirmed with one of Molag Bals lieutenants actually being an undead werewolf. That being said however there will be new monsters as well like a giant skeleton including some for Molag Bal army.
Players will be able to choose between 9 different races with the Imperial being the only race you can’t play as. It hasn’t been revealed yet if your character will automatically be part of that races group like the High Elves in the Aldmeri Dominion or if you can choose but my guess is that your race will choose your group. You will also have to choose a class type as well but your class won’t limit what armour and weapons you use so you can be a mage with a greatsword if you want and all of the common armour types will be in-game like steel and ebony armour. You can also be perks like becoming a vampire or werewolf and you can also upgrade your three states (health, magic and stamina) to build your character the way you want to.
Finally let’s mention the PvP and the server. Elder Scrolls online will have a unique server in that compared to most online games Elders Scrolls online will have just one megaserver for all of the players which should make it easier to play with friends but it sounds like it might suffer from serious lag problems. Finally along with the usual MMO ability for players to team up and fight monsters together, players will also be able to do large scale battles for control of towers and also to crown on of them emperor kind of like in Guild Wars 2. All of the battles will of course take place in Cyrodiil and also even new players will be able to play and you’ll be able to use tools like catapults to break down wall.
If you’d like to keep up with the progress of the Elder Scrolls online don’t forget to go to the newly created The Elder Scrolls Online website and subscribe.
