Sentry (Gear Set of the Sentry) Year's Old Exploit

Sedare38

For far too many YEARS now, people have been able to don sentry gear in Cyrodiil (this is a PVP set), activate the ability to be able to see people in stealth -- with no range limiter which is insane btw and an entirely different topic of conversation -- then rapidly change back into their main 5-piece sets via an add-on like Wizard's Wardrobe, which makes gear swapping near instantaneous, and then go about their merry PVP way to assault their target.

This is a bug in the set and an exploit by users who perform it. NO SET should retain any buff, even if a duration buff, once that 5 piece bonus condition is no longer met by virtue of no longer wearing said 5-piece. I'm not talking about back barring a 5-piece set, that's different as YOU'RE STILL WEARING THE GEAR. I'm talking about actually removing the items to put in place other items so you have more damage, tankiness, etc.

Fix Sentry. Either add the condition that once no longer worn the set buff drops, or change it back to the way it used to be by giving the wearer a range bonus to seeing stealth/invis and again make sure it drops if the gear is swapped.

Sentry swapping is the definition of cheating: to give unfair advantage to a player over another through duplicitous means -- and if it's present within the game it's an exploit as there is no way this is intended as you ZOS are then giving players access to 3 5-piece bonuses.

Either way, fix it.

blktauna

I wasn't aware you could quick switch like that. This explains a lot of shady stuff.

Yeah that need to not work in PVP

PeacefulAnarchy

Sedare38 wrote: »

I'm not talking about back barring a 5-piece set, that's different as YOU'RE STILL WEARING THE GEAR. I'm talking about actually removing the items to put in place other items so you have more damage, tankiness, etc.

They don't know how to make this distinction, which is why they keep adding in combat conditions to sets that people use to prebuff.
I don't know how people use sentry so I can't judge if adding an in combat condition to it would make sense or ruin the set.

Sedare38

PeacefulAnarchy wrote: »

Sedare38 wrote: »

I'm not talking about back barring a 5-piece set, that's different as YOU'RE STILL WEARING THE GEAR. I'm talking about actually removing the items to put in place other items so you have more damage, tankiness, etc.

They don't know how to make this distinction, which is why they keep adding in combat conditions to sets that people use to prebuff.
I don't know how people use sentry so I can't judge if adding an in combat condition to it would make sense or ruin the set.

I think if ZOS put the player in combat as soon as it's used it would prevent gear swap.