Vampire Drain Delay

jasonleitch1_ESO

Since the launch of Craglorn I have noticed what initially appeared to be a delay when using the vampire ability Invigorating Drain. I am not certain if this is the case with the base ability Drain Essence, or with the second morph Midnight Drain.

There seems to be a delay of about 1-2 second after activating the ability. After watching closely I have noticed that the ability does in fact start when activated. The issue is that the animation for the Drain has a 1-2 second delay. This causes a much shorter animation of the actual "Drain" animation or the drain animation will not appear at all. Also, this may be the cause of the character remaining "stuck" in the drain animation with their arm extended.

This issue is creating minor reaction time problems as the ability activation and animation are not in sync. Please address the issue in a future patch.

Arsenic_Touch

It's been this way since beta testing. It's always a coin toss when you use drain.

Liquid_Time

I can confirm both of these. The arm being stuck out was funny for a little while, but got old fast.

Whisper292

I've noticed this too, with Invigorating Drain. I have noticed that the enemy seems to stop attacking once you press the key to start the spell, almost as if the game is having to wind up to the animation. You mention here that they need to address the issue, but be sure to fill out a /bug report when it happens in the game. They'll probably catch that a lot quicker than they will here.

Shagreth

There is something off with the drain for sure, it has to be the most unresponsive ability out there for me. I have this problem with my nightblade in general, nothing feels smooth, it's like there is some kind of delay with everything.

One of the secrets of WoW's success was the 'feel' and how responsive everything you pressed felt, I wish this was the case for ESO as well. I'm definitely not saying that ESO should be more like WoW, hell, that's the reason I like ESO so much, because it's different -- but the laggy gameplay is one of the main complaints that I have. Perhaps the situation will get better once they move the EU megaserver, one can only hope.

sagitter

ye confirm this.

Nova Sky

*waits 2 seconds for fangs to extend* There, ready to go! Hey, where did the enemy NPC go?!

drkeys143

Yes, can confirm the same happening to me too

Melufey

Nova Sky wrote: »

*waits 2 seconds for fangs to extend* There, ready to go! Hey, where did the enemy NPC go?!

*washing the blood of the knives*
It wasn't me!

Drinkycrow

agree...drain however useful is a pain to land...im not even sure if i have ever gotten the ability to work in pvp....done the sneak attack feed a bunch but not drain...for all i know drain doesnt work in pvp