ZOS, You Owe Me A Trifecta

Gabriel_H · November 2

I'm going to type this slowly otherwise I am likely to lose it. I have always said, missing out on a trifecta, if by my own mistake, mistimed attack, poor leadership etc is something that will annoy me, but ultimately a me problem - losing out on a trifecta due to a bug introduced by poor coding, poor quality control, or poor management however will absolutely send me into a keyboard snapping rage.

So, here we are, ZOS. After duct taping my keyboard back together, here we are. Tonight, after many runs, practice, team building and general funnage, tonight was the night of perfect co-ordination and effort, of seamless pulls and well executed damage and heals - and then I tried to block an attack from the final boss and death took me.

I'd spent 15 minutes wondering what was wrong. Why did my tank I have spent years perfecting and optimizing suddenly seem to feel squishy. I couldn't put my finger on it until I saw that death recap showing what had just killed me. An unlucky set of hits to be sure, but one I had survived many times before. What was it about those damage taken numbers? And then it dawned on me, the boss had hit me, I had blocked, but the mitigation was way below where it should have been.

Was it me? Had I mistakenly put on the wrong armour? Was my rotation off? No, it was none of those things. It's because I had swapped bars, then swapped back again - AND THE WEAPON PASSIVES were no longer in effect. Now I don't know for sure this bug was down to poor coding, poor quality control, or poor management but I'm sure many will form an opinion, but what I do know is this: It is beyond unacceptable that this bug made it to Live. It is unacceptable you have left your forum mods to take the brunt of the complaints. It is unacceptable that your senior management has not apologized.

ZOS, you owe me a trifecta, and your players a damn big apology. And breathe!

mdjessup4906 · November 2

Here here.

My Dawnbreaker prog literally quit after 1 run yesterday because the tanks were just getting the *** kicked out of them for no reason. Figured why try if were just gonna wipe do to not fault of our own. Hoping (perhaps in futility) for a fix before next run.

Rkindaleft · November 2

I think we need to get into the habit of putting Crown Store™ bugs into the thread title even if it's unrelated so at least you know someone from ZOS will click on the thread ASAP.

It's awful that we don't have a timeline or even a frame of reference for when these issues will be addressed or acknowledged. They completely broke combat in so many ways this update and haven't commented on 95% of the bugs.

Radiate77 · November 2

Back in 2016, when Maelstrom Arena would crash you at the Argonian Behemoth stage like clockwork, I lost a Flawless Conqueror on my Magicka Templar, one of the hardest classes to accomplish that on, and my ticket reply said, in not exact words…

Unfortunately we can’t award you the achievement as you technically did not complete Maelstrom Arena on Veteran without dying in one instance, but if you did it once, you can do it again.

Pops_ND_Irish · November 2

hehehehe

Erickson9610 · November 3

Werewolves don't even get weapon passives despite having weapons equipped and benefitting from the set bonus and enchantment/poison/trait of them.

If it's truly this bad to not have weapon passives, then hopefully someone realizes how bad it is for werewolves. I hope this bug gets fixed soon, and I hope werewolves will be allowed to have weapon passives too.

Renato90085 · November 3

since last year server suck,zos owe me many trifecta..

Ardriel · November 3

It's a shame that perfect gameplay, player skill and team coordination aren't enough to master such achievements. Unfortunately it also depends on pure luck that skills work properly and the server plays along.

I've experienced this many times myself. Extremely annoying. It's surprising that people still pay for this game. I'm sure many more people would do so if these bugs were finally fixed and we had a stable server. Players should be able to rely on their skills working, especially in critical situations.

frogthroat · November 3

Judging by how long it took to fix the previous block bug, it's not going to be fixed for a while. Until then the workaround is to use either staff-staff or s&b-s&b setup. (Staff-staff is probably better.)

The previous block bug was worked around with the addon Am I Blocking.

I hope today's maintenance addresses the bug. But I wouldn't hold my breath. Block bugs are not as important as ToT leaderboards.

RietN7 · November 3

There was a guildie once that completed a planesbreaker run years ago but didnt get the achievement like the others in the run, know what zos told him? Just do it again.

guarstompemoji · November 3

Dude, I'm so sorry.

Dalsinthus · November 3

I’m sorry. Been there and oy does it suck when you lose a run to a glitch.

The issue is acknowledged here so at least a fix is coming https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/684537/u48-seasons-of-the-worm-cult-part-2-launch-known-issues-list#latest

Horace-Wimp · November 3

Meanwhile, at the Hall of Justice, a new trouble was beginning to brew for our intrepid heroes...

magnusthorek · November 3

That's one of the reasons I abandoned dungeons and trials for some extent. Not the main reason by far, of course, but one of them. I don't know why I still play this game...

WAMB0 · November 3

This reminds me to once again ask, what happened to the promised tool that let's them adjust (grant) achievements or fix other database entries?

It was advertised around 2021 November, so 4 years now.
I have asked ZOS when our Planesbreaker broke, I asked ZOS when ppl were withheld from getting the Unstoppable in January - Zero reactions. Zero surprises.

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/7447948/#Comment_7447948

I'm not even gonna waste the key press to ping someone from zos' team.

Islyn · November 3

RietN7 wrote: »

There was a guildie once that completed a planesbreaker run years ago but didnt get the achievement like the others in the run, know what zos told him? Just do it again.

JuSt dO iT aGaIn

SwordOfSagas · November 3

And they owe me 10000 coldfire ballista for all the times I've crashed and lost them.

Jaimeh · November 3

I'm sorry OP, it sucks having your trifecta run ruined by extraneous factors, it's really demoralizing, because this type of challenge is demanding and stressful, so after something like this, you just feel like stop trying. I remember another case reported here in the forums where a 12-person group had finished the trial with full vitality/speed/HM, killed all the adds, etc., they had full footage of the run, but the achievement bugged on them, and ZOS replied that they couldn't do anything about it because they can't grant the achievement, so basically that group had to just do it again and hope they could land a perfect run again, it's super frustrating and unfair. Anyway, apparently they are aware of some of the combat bugs introduced with update 48 and hopefully they will address them in the incremental patch.

Gabriel_H · November 3

SwordOfSagas wrote: »

And they owe me 10000 coldfire ballista for all the times I've crashed and lost them.

You win!

twisttop138 · November 3

Dude @Gabriel_H that sucks a bag of hammers. I'm in my very first trifecta prog currently and I couldn't imagine. Let alone being the tank. I'm learning vet trial tanking and so much of all of it is on you, to execute perfectly and get ZOS'D at the very end is maddening. Here's to you sir, for your restraint and another for luck on the next pull.

Veinblood1965 · November 3

SwordOfSagas wrote: »

And they owe me 10000 coldfire ballista for all the times I've crashed and lost them.

I never will forget that time I ran across 10,000 coldfire balistas and the enemy was just standing there not even moving and I burnt them all. MUHAHAHHAHA!