Shadowy Disguise Crit is busted

DrSlaughtr

This is getting ridiculous at this point. Most attacks while in shadowy disguise do not crit. After being frustrated by this, I finally decided to beat up a dummy to see why.

If I hit the target in shadowy while stationary, I crit 100% of the time. Great. So it does work, right?

Not so fast, my friends.

If I hit shadowy and moved while attacking, I rarely crit. Like less than 50%.

The big problem with this is that PLAYERS ARE MOBILE. I'm getting tired of attacking people on the move and failing to crit. It's honestly game breaking at this point.

Previous patch I wrote mechanical, and before that I ran flat damage + pen builds. So maybe it's always been this way and I didn't have to deal with it. But now I do since MA was ruined and trying to run flat damage and pen makes you do basically no damage to most of these builds.

Anyone have any tips on this?

mocap

projectile based attack? Like Swallow Soul, light attacks (except resto stave) proc bow? Snipe is worst by far. Yeah, it can be busted.

100% crit chance is only and only while you are cloacked when projectile reach the target.

DrSlaughtr

mocap wrote: »

projectile based attack? Like Swallow Soul, light attacks (except resto stave) proc bow? Snipe is worst by far. Yeah, it can be busted.

100% crit chance is only and only while you are cloacked when projectile reach the target.

I'm talking melee light attacks, heavy and skills.

BXR_Lonestar

TheEndBringer wrote: »

This is getting ridiculous at this point. Most attacks while in shadowy disguise do not crit. After being frustrated by this, I finally decided to beat up a dummy to see why.

If I hit the target in shadowy while stationary, I crit 100% of the time. Great. So it does work, right?

Not so fast, my friends.

If I hit shadowy and moved while attacking, I rarely crit. Like less than 50%.

The big problem with this is that PLAYERS ARE MOBILE. I'm getting tired of attacking people on the move and failing to crit. It's honestly game breaking at this point.

Previous patch I wrote mechanical, and before that I ran flat damage + pen builds. So maybe it's always been this way and I didn't have to deal with it. But now I do since MA was ruined and trying to run flat damage and pen makes you do basically no damage to most of these builds.

Anyone have any tips on this?

The fix for this is easy, IMO, and it can even incorporate changes people were asking for:

1. Make invis have a cooldown (But increase its duration to say 7-10 seconds);

2. Make it so that using ranged attacks while invis don't break invis;

3. make it so ONLY the first hit is guaranteed to be critical.

doing this would make it a lot easier to attack parties "from invis," give you time to line up the perfect shot.

DrSlaughtr

BXR_Lonestar wrote: »

TheEndBringer wrote: »

This is getting ridiculous at this point. Most attacks while in shadowy disguise do not crit. After being frustrated by this, I finally decided to beat up a dummy to see why.

If I hit the target in shadowy while stationary, I crit 100% of the time. Great. So it does work, right?

Not so fast, my friends.

If I hit shadowy and moved while attacking, I rarely crit. Like less than 50%.

The big problem with this is that PLAYERS ARE MOBILE. I'm getting tired of attacking people on the move and failing to crit. It's honestly game breaking at this point.

Previous patch I wrote mechanical, and before that I ran flat damage + pen builds. So maybe it's always been this way and I didn't have to deal with it. But now I do since MA was ruined and trying to run flat damage and pen makes you do basically no damage to most of these builds.

Anyone have any tips on this?

The fix for this is easy, IMO, and it can even incorporate changes people were asking for:

1. Make invis have a cooldown (But increase its duration to say 7-10 seconds);

2. Make it so that using ranged attacks while invis don't break invis;

3. make it so ONLY the first hit is guaranteed to be critical.

doing this would make it a lot easier to attack parties "from invis," give you time to line up the perfect shot.

1 wouldn't fix this and destroy NBs as a stealth class. Yes too easy to break shadowy through means other than just reveal.

2 this has nothing to do with my post. I'm talking melee light attacks, heavies and even soul harvest.

3 this isn't necessary. The way it currently is supposed to work is fine and requires skill to get off the correct attack in the small window. That's a good thing.