User blog comment:Equillibrium/Elder Scrolls Online: Character Progression/@comment-173.189.163.32-20131207193947/@comment-5558140-20131209033846

actually in ESO the only thing exclusive to classes are the specific skill lines for that class, everything else is completely up to you, and since we will also be doing things like dungeons, different skill lines gives us the opportunity to work cooperatively with eachother rather than have every man for himself using whatever hes got just to help himself out of a situation. the skyshards are also a lot like the dragon word's of power from skyrim since they essentially award you with something to increase your skill in shouting. also, your race is one of the two factors that Nick Konkle mentioned that affect how your stats start off. @DERPINGAWESOME, your basically describing Oblivions class system.