Shadowy Disguise bug

phtony06b14_ESO

This ability is not supposed to take you out of combat in PvE but it does on occasion. As a result, the mob (usually a boss since they take a while to kill) resets to full health. As a result you have to kill it all over again regardless of how low you got it's health.

I've found that if you have a DOT on the mob then Shadowy Disguise never bugs out but as soon as the DOT falls off, it may. However sometimes when I DOT the mob, Shadowy Disguise fails to fire when I try to use it unless I spam it.

Bromburak

http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/comment/965408/#Comment_965408

Sharee

Hmm, can't say i ever experienced this(and i abuse the hell of the vanish every opportunity i get ), however i morphed shadow cloak into dark cloak instead into shadowy disguise. So the problem must be specific to the latter morph.

phtony06b14_ESO

Bromburak wrote: »

http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/comment/965408/#Comment_965408

Ah sorry to double thread. Good to know it's not just me though.

Tavore1138

Just be glad it works, about 1 in 4 times mobs attack me straight through it... Not even got dot ticks on me or them.

phtony06b14_ESO

SuraklinPrime wrote: »

Just be glad it works, about 1 in 4 times mobs attack me straight through it... Not even got dot ticks on me or them.

Yeah sometimes it won't work; I end up having to spam the button in order for it to take.

Vandril

Sharee wrote: »

Hmm, can't say i ever experienced this(and i abuse the hell of the vanish every opportunity i get ), however i morphed shadow cloak into dark cloak instead into shadowy disguise. So the problem must be specific to the latter morph.

Nay. I have experienced this with both morphs, so it's not morph-specific.

killedbyping

FIrst of all, yes this ability SHOULD take you out of combat. Else this ability have no sense.

It is cealry something else.
I use Summon Shade and Shadowy Disguise on boss fights. Bosses lose agrro when i go stealth but they do NOT reset.

Hilgara

They only reset if you kite them too far from the initial location. my whole rotation is based on cloak, heavy attack, surprise attack, repeat and I can take world bosses down like this without them resetting (takes an age but I take no damage)

Vandril

Hilgara wrote: »

They only reset if you kite them too far from the initial location. my whole rotation is based on cloak, heavy attack, surprise attack, repeat and I can take world bosses down like this without them resetting (takes an age but I take no damage)

I never move when abusing cloak. At all. And it has happened to me. This is not the cause of the problem people are experiencing.

killedbyping wrote: »

FIrst of all, yes this ability SHOULD take you out of combat. Else this ability have no sense.

No, no, no. I think you're confusing temporarily dumping threat and actual removal from combat. Removing you from combat means that the enemy you're fighting no longer sees you, runs back to spawn point, and resets back to full health and no buffs/debuffs (unless someone else was attacking it, then it would attack them, instead, since you left combat but they did not). If Shadow made you leave combat, your Shades would stop attacking the boss and move to where you are (or stand there dumbly - I'm not sure how they programmed the AI to work, exactly), because they would be out of combat, too. When you fully leave combat, so do your shades.

What this ability currently does is temporarily dump your threat. The enemy will not attack you while invisible, because you have 0 threat on the enemy (threat is an actual value used to decide how enemies decide who to attack). When invisibility ends, all of that threat which was temporarily dumped then returns (or so it seems). At least, this is how it's supposed to work.

The bug people are experiencing is that sometimes, though rarely, using invisibility will not just dump threat, but also remove them from combat entirely.