What is a warden?

[Die Dame des Berges]

some will hate mentioning WoW, but that game (in my opinion) made the best realization of a druid character in all gaming history, you could literally become a sea creature or a bird that flies the sky, and all its abilities concentrated on nature and interactions with it.

the warden spell animations are my favorite in the game,and thats why I try playing it over and over but no matter how hard I try I absolutly can't connect rolewise to my warden characters... every class in ESO has a clear "agenda" - DK for fire and dragonic powers, templars with holy light and righteousness, NBs shadow etc
But what is a warden? I can't sense any "agenda" here.. this mishmash of nature and frost powers make 0 sense to me, as freezing cold is associated with death+destruction of life, completely in negation to the animal companion and healing trees

I think that the warden class really deserves a conceptual overhauling, especially because its a paid class. I know its alot to ask but if any devs are here, please be kind to consider..

[Rikkore]

Or maybe that's it. Life and death. You take and give

[Count Smashula]

You could look at it as a circle of life thing, with the healing spells marking the birth, animal skills marking life and frost spells marking death.

Beyond that, frost is used almost exclusively as defensive spells. Stamina builds pretty much never use them and mag builds only use the ice shards for damage (which you combine with fire or shock blockade anyway.)

Also, ice and snow are parts of nature. It is the cold, harsh and natural selection part of nature but a part anyway (in the regions that actually have cold weather like skyrim, wrothgar etc.).
Makes about as much sense as the dragonknights having mixes of dragon, fire, poison and earth powers and sorcerers using lightning, daedric powers and gems/crystals.

I will admit that it would be cool if warden could have a transform or buff ability to tie more into the druid aspect and being one with nature instead of only 1 ult being interesting for any build at all (bear for dd, blizzard for tanks and healing grove on healers).

[Drake]

ice is the defencive element. That's why it's there. if you have to give a magical element to wardens, it's gotta be ice.
Then, warden is a mix of nothern arts, the ice from skyrim, the nature magic from the wyrd and the various animals from morrowind.

Then again, it's a TES game. magic is not classed by element but by school. While there is an ice variant of destruction magic, there is also an ice variant of alteration magic, which is pretty much the tank magic. And most ice skill from the warden fall actually in the alteration kind, not the destruction kind.

[ZeeHero]

Warden is kind of a jack of all trades, can do many different things with its nature and ice skills.

[Die Dame des Berges]

Originally posted by Gameplayer4885:

You could look at it as a circle of life thing, with the healing spells marking the birth, animal skills marking life and frost spells marking death.

Beyond that, frost is used almost exclusively as defensive spells. Stamina builds pretty much never use them and mag builds only use the ice shards for damage (which you combine with fire or shock blockade anyway.)

Also, ice and snow are parts of nature. It is the cold, harsh and natural selection part of nature but a part anyway (in the regions that actually have cold weather like skyrim, wrothgar etc.).
Makes about as much sense as the dragonknights having mixes of dragon, fire, poison and earth powers and sorcerers using lightning, daedric powers and gems/crystals.

I will admit that it would be cool if warden could have a transform or buff ability to tie more into the druid aspect and being one with nature instead of only 1 ult being interesting for any build at all (bear for dd, blizzard for tanks and healing grove on healers).

And the worst thing i forgot to mention is the bear ult... I was excited about having the bear companion ability until i realized you can't have it without restricting yourself to this single ult in both weapons. This is just sad.

[The Infinite Archiver]

The Wardens are those who are alike the Spinners - Storytellers of magical nature that can weave nature and primal elements to life, a Bosmer tradition by origin.

Perhaps if you look slightly into the Lore of the Bosmer or the Warden Class, you'd notice this, and generally if you think WoW did it better, nothing is stopping you from playing that instead.

[brenelael]

Wardens represent the circle of life with their three skill lines. Birth, Life and Death. The Healing line represents Birth. The Animal line represents Life. The Ice line represents Death. They are not anything like the Druids from WoW even though they do have a few passing similarities.