Why does Dark cloak randomly stop working?

Elyna

The second I go into it, it stops working, its the most annoying thing ever.

Niffo

Elyna wrote: »

The second I go into it, it stops working, its the most annoying thing ever.

Damage breaks it, even your own, actually any thing that might be considered an offensive action seems to break it, such as the snare from Consuming Darkness.

Samadhi

Niffo wrote: »

Elyna wrote: »

The second I go into it, it stops working, its the most annoying thing ever.

Damage breaks it, even your own, actually any thing that might be considered an offensive action seems to break it, such as the snare from Consuming Darkness.

Crippling Grasp's DoT breaks it
Path of Darkness damaging enemies also breaks it

Some other sources of damage in game (such as poison from the bow line) do not seem to break it.

This has been brought to ZoS attention in another thread, I don't have the link on hand though.

joshisanonymous

Dark Cloak (Shadow Cloak morph): Dark Cloak is not currently removing damage-over-time (DoT) debuffs as it should be. We’re currently investigating this issue to determine which DoTs are not being removed by Dark Cloak.

forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/100627/nightblade-update/p1

They've at least confirmed that your own DoTs are not supposed to break Shadow Cloak, but are in fact behaving this way for some abilities. They've said nothing about whether damage in general, both received and dished out, is supposed to break Shadow Cloak but that seems to be happening, too. For instance, firing off a basic arrow attack then immediately stealthing will often break your stealth because you've gone invisible before the attack has actually reached its target. Likewise, getting hit by an AoE or by a DoT that was already applied before using Shadow Cloak will break the effect (the DoT issue is a bug for that particular morph, unless you have a ton of different DoTs on you). I'm not entirely sure what's going on for the incoming damage thing, though. It makes little sense to me, particularly if you use the Shadowy Disguise morph, and neither Zenimax nor any other player has been able to confirm for me whether incoming damage is supposed to break your NB stealth.

Edit: Sorry, that quote was supposed to be the one that from ZoS that said that your own DoTs are not supposed to break Shadow Cloak. I can't seem to find that one now, but it's out there somewhere.

Edit 2: Ah, found it. Or at least another quote that says it that I hadn't seen before.

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

NordJitsu wrote: »

As to whether your OWN DoTs are supposed to be pulling you out, I'm not sure. But I'll try to get that documented as well.

We can confirm that this is not how it should work, and we'll be fixing it.

forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/comment/866271/#Comment_866271

jbreen95_ESO

I need to bump this, its still a massive issue that is about to cause me to un-sub. I play a nightblade so I can stealth, if i cant stealth then what am I doing? This ability NEVER works while engaged in combat ANYWHERE in cyrodiil.

I believe you are looking into the wrong issue. DOTs were not being removed but that has since been fixed and I still get brought out....

There an issue with the move alone, please look into this

DEVS : Most of the time this is what happens...I hit dark cloak (with no debuffs or DOTs on) the spell animates and within a half second or sometimes right away, I pop right out and dark cloak has not worked. Im not talking about removing buffs, Im not talking about looking like im not stealthed but I actually am....Im talking about the spell animating and not even triggering at all. please fix this, i cannot play my class. thank you for your time

Kiljaz

This same issue happens with bolt escape. You cast it, it uses magicka, the spell animation is there, but you don't move. With BE you have to relog when it does this.

Jarnhand

To make it simple; its bugged, like SEVERAL other NB skills.

Cody

its bugged, and damage turns it off. you fire an arrow, then use it? breaks it. use an AOE then use it? breaks it. get hit by an AOE? breaks it. almost any DoT? breaks it. a lot of times it will do like you said, activate, then half a second later stop(the mannimarco fight is an excellent example, it does not even work in that fight because it turns on, then turns off instantly) sometimes you will cast it, and it wont even activate at all, but will STILL cost you the magica to cast it.:/ hopefully they fix it soon.

Kevinmon

This skill has been *** since pre launch

frwinters_ESO

it has to do with dots. Even friendly dots can break you out of it. Was supposed to be fixed but apparently its not.

Grim13

..because ZOS are inept.

pitdemon_ESO

Not sure about arrows but I haven't had any issue with DoTs popping me out of stealth since launch (and I run a heavy DoT build on my 2nd bar).

Every time you go into cloak the same rules apply for normal stealth, i.e. if someone pops a detect pot you'll be unstealthed, same for normal detection rules regarding distance/line of sight and enemy damage.

CletusMcGuilly

Detect pots seem to break the stealth cloak too.

Thejollygreenone

CletusMcGuilly wrote: »

Detect pots seem to break the stealth cloak too.

This, confirmed, happens to me too. Often.

Beyond that and all the other known issues brought up here, this ability seems to break for absolutely no reason sometimes, no damage being taken or received, merely being too close to an enemy will cause you to reappear in some cases (most cases for me).

Honfold

I have actually taken cloak and surprise attack off my melee bar now to make room for skills that actually work. Cloak randomly stops working like it was said above. Surprise attack seems to work half the time but the animation is so delayed that most the time the player walks right into you.