Venom Arrow buggy?

Morticielle

I noticed the last couple of days that if I get hit by Venom Arrow (VA) from one of those NBs who spam VA and use no other ability, that I can't even use instants.

VA should stun me for 3 sec and put me into 'off balance' status, IF it interrupts me WHILE using an ability with cast time. But I don't use abilities with cast time against NBs because of their abusive us of VA.

So if I don't use abilities with cast time and therefore VA can't interrupt me, why does it prevent me from using instant abilities like Bolt Escape? And I lay emphesis on the fact that I am neither stunned nor being silenced by any ability else! I can move freely, but cant use any ability while the VA spamming NB is killing me. 'Stun break' is not working in this case because I am not stunned.

With that problem and NB stuns from melee attacks often not being breakable, it has become very annoying to fight NBs.

Halrloprillalar

Yep, this happens to me too.

And it's not just VA. Any 'interrupt' skill seems to be interrupting instants (bash is interrupting BE... wtf?) which makes absolutely no sense.

Thejollygreenone

Morticielle wrote: »

I noticed the last couple of days that if I get hit by Venom Arrow (VA) from one of those NBs who spam VA and use no other ability, that I can't even use instants.

VA should stun me for 3 sec and put me into 'off balance' status, IF it interrupts me WHILE using an ability with cast time. But I don't use abilities with cast time against NBs because of their abusive us of VA.

So if I don't use abilities with cast time and therefore VA can't interrupt me, why does it prevent me from using instant abilities like Bolt Escape? And I lay emphesis on the fact that I am neither stunned nor being silenced by any ability else! I can move freely, but cant use any ability while the VA spamming NB is killing me. 'Stun break' is not working in this case because I am not stunned.

With that problem and NB stuns from melee attacks often not being breakable, it has become very annoying to fight NBs.

Never heard of this venom arrow spam. But tbh, targeting nightblades because of a bug with a bow ability is real unfair. Many nightblades don't even use bows or melee.

Hell I even play a nightblade who uses a bow and I don't even use venom arrow, which may contribute to why I've never heard of this. But it has never happened to me as far as I can tell.

This problem you have with venom arrow and whatever bug there may be, it is with the bow tree and users of venom arrow alone. Not nightblades. Not all bow users. Try to be a little less general so innocent folk like me don't get targeted for no reason.

Furthermore, your mention of 'NB stuns from melee attacks often not being breakable' is again not an issue that is even remotely restricted to nightblades. The unbreakable cc's have been an issue for awhile, and just about any class can use it, either exploiting purposefully or using unwittingly.

Unbreakable cc's are a bug that as far as I can tell occur when multiple different types of cc's are used at once. Notably roots+stuns are the main culprits, the most notable combination to produce this is from DKs with talons+invasion. I've heard templars can also consistently produce the effect, possibly with something like javelin+toppling charge.

Regardless, neither of these effects are really specific to nightblade, so I think your post could be narrowed down a whole bunch to merely detailing a perceived incident(s) with venom arrow behaving incorrectly. No mention of class is needed to achieve this.

(Sorry for typing so much, just had to clarify.)

Cheers.

Krentar_RNX

Been like that since forever, you can even get off balance several times in a row without even doing an action after the first one as long as the first animation hasnt finished.

Morticielle

Thejollygreenone wrote: »

(far too much words to 'not only NBs use bow as weapon)

Do you have to much time in your life? Why use 7 paragraphs where 7 words would have sufficed to clear that up? Are you a politician? Or a marketing expert?

Thejollygreenone

Morticielle wrote: »

Thejollygreenone wrote: »

(far too much words to 'not only NBs use bow as weapon)

Do you have to much time in your life? Why use 7 paragraphs where 7 words would have sufficed to clear that up? Are you a politician? Or a marketing expert?

Why does it matter how many words I use to get a point across? How is that relevant to venom arrow?

Anyway, even though I've never experienced this bug, seeing more than one person stating familiarity with it is enough for me to believe in its existence. Rarely do forum posters agree so exactly ^.^

And the way this bug is described seems like it could be quite a problem in pvp. Another item on the known issues list I suppose, let's hope it actually gets fixed.

Also, since you ask, I'm a philosophy major. Does that answer both your questions?

Morticielle

Thejollygreenone wrote: »

Also, since you ask, I'm a philosophy major. Does that answer both your questions?

Actually it does.

Manoekin

Something makes me think the game is counting animation as cast time with regards to spells/abilities that interrupt. Happened to me when I got charged by a templar while using an instant cast.

Cody

I use venom arrow at least once or twice each fight, and I actually don't stun people very much with it:/. lol. idk whats causing this, hopefully I don't unwittingly use it too much.