Anyone else notice block not working?

Garetth

Welcome to ESO Beta. I'm sure they made some secret change to block in 1.5 to try and fix the impulse/block spam monkeys.

Keep up the good work testing this out

Ifthir_ESO

So what you are saying is the most powerful skill in the game was stealth nerfed.

Teargrants

Garetth wrote: »

Welcome to ESO Beta. I'm sure they made some secret change to block in 1.5 to try and fix the impulse/block spam monkeys.

Keep up the good work testing this out

Please, that's an insult to how good the beta was. Remember?

Hughezy

Maybe the hamster powering the block animation died and they can't afford a new one?

dylanjaygrobbelaarb16_ESO

ZOS_TristanK wrote: »

Thanks for the reports! Just wanted to ask a couple of questions for our own clarification since we see a few different thing in this thread.

1. What server are you playing on?
2. Are you playing on a Mac or a PC?
3. Are you seeing the animation drop or is the animation remaining while attacks are getting through?
4. Are there specific abilities that are getting through? Light attacks? Heavy attacks?
5. Is this consistently happening in a specific area/zone or everywhere?

Usually I only tank for vet pledges, I'm usually heals, so I cant verify as much as I'd like.
I can verify some bandished cells bosses are hitting for the same amount with block up full stam and no block. Can't remember the names. One is where she summons adds and aoe the whole floor.
North america, PC, animation up, seemed like regular attacks can't remember light or heavy.

Laggus

Are you sure its not your ISP?

Hughezy

Laggus wrote: »

Are you sure its not your ISP?

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

Xsorus

dylanjaygrobbelaarb16_ESO wrote: »

ZOS_TristanK wrote: »

Thanks for the reports! Just wanted to ask a couple of questions for our own clarification since we see a few different thing in this thread.

1. What server are you playing on?
2. Are you playing on a Mac or a PC?
3. Are you seeing the animation drop or is the animation remaining while attacks are getting through?
4. Are there specific abilities that are getting through? Light attacks? Heavy attacks?
5. Is this consistently happening in a specific area/zone or everywhere?

Usually I only tank for vet pledges, I'm usually heals, so I cant verify as much as I'd like.
I can verify some bandished cells bosses are hitting for the same amount with block up full stam and no block. Can't remember the names. One is where she summons adds and aoe the whole floor.
North america, PC, animation up, seemed like regular attacks can't remember light or heavy.

you cannot block her attacks at all, you also cannot block the boss after that's attacks either, nor reflect his nukes. i pretty much had to go as a dodge tank in both fights.

leandro.800ub17_ESO

I have notices something. When holding block i cant cast any skill for instance the taunt from 1h and board

Maulkin

3 times in PvP last night I got shield-charged down while holding block and having a more than half-full stamina pool. This is how it made me feel...



You can't keep re-applying block every few secs just in case the server decided you stopped blocking in between for no good reason. C'mon sort this out zeni, it's only been happening since 1.5

Izanagi.Xiiib16_ESO

mike.gaziotisb16_ESO wrote: »

3 times in PvP last night I got shield-charged down while holding block and having a more than half-full stamina pool. This is how it made me feel...



You can't keep re-applying block every few secs just in case the server decided you stopped blocking in between for no good reason. C'mon sort this out zeni, it's only been happening since 1.5

To be fair you should have been holding RMB instead of punching your screen

Rune_Relic

Explains a lot of my deaths then
Lots of world bosses hitting me for damage with block up 1.5+.
So assumed block was a flat number damage reduction.
Turns out the NPC weren't actually getting more powerful but the block not working ?
Figures.

I'll experiment tomorrow.

Maulkin

Rune_Relic wrote: »

Explains a lot of my deaths then
Lots of world bosses hitting me for damage with block up 1.5+.
So assumed block was a flat number damage reduction.
Turns out the NPC weren't actually getting more powerful but the block not working ?
Figures.

I'll experiment tomorrow.

Do be wary that this is a PvP observation. PvE can be, is, different. There are certain bosses like the ones in Veteran Banished Cells that block mitigation does not work.

That's not a case of block suddenly not working while it was working for 20 minutes straight, which is what I'm reporting. That's a case of the boss only bypassing your block with every single attack. For example you can still block the adds fine.

Just be wary that's there 2 separate issues and this thread is specifically about block suddenly being dropped while your RMB is still pressed.

Lfehova

Kaghei wrote: »

if youre talking about losing the animation of blocking, i get that a lot, but as far as i know your block is still up, its just the animation.

It's the complete opposite of this.

It's a bug that when you've been blocking for a long time, that it shows your animation but you're not actually blocking. It rarely happens to me in pvp, but it does happen all the time in PvE during boss fights where I have to block.

Lfehova

mike.gaziotisb16_ESO wrote: »

Rune_Relic wrote: »

Explains a lot of my deaths then
Lots of world bosses hitting me for damage with block up 1.5+.
So assumed block was a flat number damage reduction.
Turns out the NPC weren't actually getting more powerful but the block not working ?
Figures.

I'll experiment tomorrow.

Do be wary that this is a PvP observation. PvE can be, is, different. There are certain bosses like the ones in Veteran Banished Cells that block mitigation does not work.

That's not a case of block suddenly not working while it was working for 20 minutes straight, which is what I'm reporting. That's a case of the boss only bypassing your block with every single attack. For example you can still block the adds fine.

Just be wary that's there 2 separate issues and this thread is specifically about block suddenly being dropped while your RMB is still pressed.

It definitely happens in both PvP and PvE.

It just happens rarely in PvP because people are moving so much and dropping block a lot more often while moving around and fighting. In PvE for me, when I'm tanking a boss, it happens a lot because a lot of the times I hold block for an extended period of time.

dodgehopper_ESO

Yes, I've had this happen as well.