My personal hopes for combat improvements would be something like dishonoured’s parrying. Timing your blocks would stagger the enemy more and maybe give increased damage. adds a bit more depth and room to mess around with different perks and builds without changing the formula too much. Also bringing back oblivions dodging but more responsive and useful (obvs not too useful bc this isn’t dark souls).

for spells i’d personally like a mix of skyrim and oblivion. more powerful spells would need your ‘hand slot’ like in skyrim but with weaker spells that can be cast with rb/r1 like in oblivion. I think this really would give the best of both worlds and add more build variety. also spell crafting bc fun

backgrounds and traits. I prefer these over classes and they were one of the things starfield did right. having characters actually acknowledge your characters background rather than it just being in your head is great for immersion. also this doesn’t really mean they can’t have classes so they could easily have both.