Grave Lord's Sacrifice DOES NOT FUNCTION PROPERLY - Video evidence

IncultaWolf · May 25

@ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_Kevin

I'd like to bring attention to this bug where the AoE/corpse generation function of this ability does not work. I've managed to recreate this bug easily 100% of the time, and also confirmed the same thing happening to a friend who plays necromancer.

This happens with both morphs of flame skull. The bug happens when you get the killing blow on an enemy with the 3'rd cast of skull. It's supposed to do AoE damage and create a corpse, but this does not happen. Below is video evidence of this occurring. Please at least acknowledge this bug, necromancer has so many issues and broken mechanics with it, many more I could bring up in other threads.

https://youtu.be/32tvcqB-5FQ?si=hbkcdeoJtHqDWuB1

In the video clip, you can see the ability icon for skull glowing, as well as the player animation indicating the 3'rd buffed skull is being used. The Grave Lord's Sacrifice function isn't working.

CameraBeardThePirate · May 25

I noticed this as well with Combat Metrics. The number of Grave Lord's Sacrifice hits (what CMX and Logs display the AoE skull as) was much lower than what you would expect over the course of a fight - as in 10 or 12 hits over a 10 minute PvP fight with multiple targets. Incredibly low.

gariondavey · May 25

@ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_Kevin
Could you guys please look at this thread

IncultaWolf · May 26

Again for clarification, this bug only happens when you get the killing blow on an enemy with the 3'rd cast of flame skull, it happens with both morphs of this ability while Grave Lord's Sacrifice buff active

The damage on my solo pve build is very high, so this bug happens to me constantly

Yamenstein · May 26

Don’t waste your breath, time or effort on this. Hopefully it gets fixed sometime next year with the new content. Or maybe scribing has a bandage fix for the problem the devs can throw your way.

CameraBeardThePirate · May 26

@ZOS_Kevin This is a pretty serious bug on an already underwhelming and underused ability. It's quite absurd that this ability has not only not received any balance changes this cycle, but is also a hot mess functionally.

IncultaWolf · May 26

Yamenstein wrote: »

Don’t waste your breath, time or effort on this. Hopefully it gets fixed sometime next year with the new content. Or maybe scribing has a bandage fix for the problem the devs can throw your way.

You sound like someone who use to play necromancer, but switched to a class that actually functions properly. If I didn't report this bug, chances are the devs are also unaware since I seem to be the first player to notice this. Necro has MANY more broken/bugged abilities than just Grave Lord's Sacrifice that have persisted since the class was released. These things just don't really get reported enough because it's the least played class.

Kalle_Demos · May 26

IncultaWolf wrote: »

Yamenstein wrote: »

Don’t waste your breath, time or effort on this. Hopefully it gets fixed sometime next year with the new content. Or maybe scribing has a bandage fix for the problem the devs can throw your way.

You sound like someone who use to play necromancer, but switched to a class that actually functions properly. If I didn't report this bug, chances are the devs are also unaware since I seem to be the first player to notice this. Necro has MANY more broken/bugged abilities than just Grave Lord's Sacrifice that have persisted since the class was released. These things just don't really get reported enough because it's the least played class.

This. Being silent will only ensure that these problems are never addressed. And once they are, who knows. A resuscitated, pun intended, Necromancer might bring more players back to the Class, a better reputation and more people may purchase it. Everyone wins.

CameraBeardThePirate · May 28

Loving the silence on this! Makes our feedback feel very valued and important.

IncultaWolf · May 28

@ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_Kevin

Would appreciate some acknowledgment that the team is aware of this major bug. Necromancer needs a lot of help.

KlauthWarthog · May 28

Give it another year or two in the oven to finish baking.

Alaztor91 · May 28

I wouldn't be surprised if this GLS bug is somehow tied to https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/657500/necromancer-skill-ricochet-skull-morph-of-flame-skull-breaks-during-combat

I assume that a bug that breaks the 3rd cast of Flame Skull would by extension also break GLS AoE and Corpse spawn since those are also tied to Flame Skull 3rd cast.

IncultaWolf · May 28

Alaztor91 wrote: »

I wouldn't be surprised if this GLS bug is somehow tied to https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/657500/necromancer-skill-ricochet-skull-morph-of-flame-skull-breaks-during-combat

I assume that a bug that breaks the 3rd cast of Flame Skull would by extension also break GLS AoE and Corpse spawn since those are also tied to Flame Skull 3rd cast.

These bugs are separate. I logged out, and back in to test this multiple times. But yes that one is also yet another bug with necromancer

CameraBeardThePirate · May 29

Alaztor91 wrote: »

I wouldn't be surprised if this GLS bug is somehow tied to https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/657500/necromancer-skill-ricochet-skull-morph-of-flame-skull-breaks-during-combat

I assume that a bug that breaks the 3rd cast of Flame Skull would by extension also break GLS AoE and Corpse spawn since those are also tied to Flame Skull 3rd cast.

Afaik it's a separate bug. The damage is still being boosted, but the AoE is not applying, and a corpse is not generated.

IncultaWolf · May 30

@ZOS_Gilliam @ZOS_Kevin

I hope this bug is at least known by the dev team.

IncultaWolf · July 25

Still bugged as of current pts

CameraBeardThePirate · July 25

@ZOS_Kevin Still bugged, still unfinished.

IncultaWolf · August 21

Still broken