[BUG] Damage Shields PREVENTING (some) CC from WORKING!

Sypher · February 2015

Damage Shields are preventing certain CC abilities from working. The two CC abilities shown in this video are Defensive Posture and Destructive Touch. I'm not sure if there are any other CC's that are negated by shields.

(This has been in game since launch, but since they're trying to fix a lot of bugs before 1.6 goes live you might as well get this done too)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPSbnSbqwqc&feature=youtu.be

Lionxoft · February 2015

Damage shields break a lot of mechanics. The heavy armor passive constitution is also affected by your own shield.

Sypher · February 2015

Lionxoft wrote: »

Damage shields break a lot of mechanics. The heavy armor passive constitution is also affected by your own shield.

This too..

Panda244 · February 2015

Bump cause needs fixing, I've personally never had a problem with damage shields just because I've been lucky enough not to run into someone who spams them to stay alive and doesn't fight back, if I ever did run into someone like that I'd just ignore him and move on... But yeah.

If they want to fix damage shield stacking they can just make disease effect the efficiency of the shield. Problem solved.

Cody · February 2015

damage shields should NEVER take over the role of heavy armor immovable, or just the role of heavy armor in particular.

for the peeps that want to know why i make such a big deal about damage shields; sypher has explained one of the reasons.

It allows someone in the lightest armor to basically be a tank due to flawed and broken mechanics, and, since these damage shields can be stacked/spammed, it has the potential to take all the fun out of combat and can make combat frustrating and very imbalanced. Just try to fight someone that spams never ending damage shields with all this flawed and broken crap tacked on.... just go ahead and give it a go, see what I and many others have been complaining about.

ZOS, PLEASE fix all of the damage shield issues before 1.6 goes live.

Cody · February 2015

Panda244 wrote: »

Bump cause needs fixing, I've personally never had a problem with damage shields just because I've been lucky enough not to run into someone who spams them to stay alive and doesn't fight back, if I ever did run into someone like that I'd just ignore him and move on... But yeah.

If they want to fix damage shield stacking they can just make disease effect the efficiency of the shield. Problem solved.

boom.

there you go ZOS; a good suggestion right here

Panda244 · February 2015

Cody wrote: »

damage shields should NEVER take over the role of heavy armor immovable, or just the role of heavy armor in particular.

for the peeps that want to know why i make such a big deal about damage shields; sypher has explained one of the reasons.

It allows someone in the lightest armor to basically be a tank due to flawed and broken mechanics, and, since these damage shields can be stacked/spammed, it has the potential to take all the fun out of combat and can make combat frustrating and very imbalanced. Just try to fight someone that spams never ending damage shields with all this flawed and broken crap tacked on.... just go ahead and give it a go, see what I and many others have been complaining about.

ZOS, PLEASE fix all of the damage shield issues before 1.6 goes live.

I have no problem with people using them as defense to protect themselves from the gimping of light armor in 1.6, but in no way should they protect you from CC or stuns, they're damage shields, not CC shields. Need to get more bumpy bumps so ZOS sees this thread.

Sypher · February 2015

We need more attention on this. Shields should not prevent cc from working.

Derra · February 2015

So much is bugged. I don´t know how they can think they will get a working 1.6 to live in the next three weeks.

kkampaseb17_ESO · February 2015

Derra wrote: »

So much is bugged. I don´t know how they can think they will get a working 1.6 to live in the next three weeks.

What three weeks? I believe they are planning to release it next Friday.

Derra · February 2015

kkampaseb17_ESO wrote: »

Derra wrote: »

So much is bugged. I don´t know how they can think they will get a working 1.6 to live in the next three weeks.

What three weeks? I believe they are planning to release it next Friday.

Sry. Three weeks is about the time they have until the re-release of tamriel unchained. Nobody will come back to a game that is more broken than when they left it

That they don´t care about the current playerbase when a bugged patch hits live is pretty clear by now...

Ryuho · February 2015

Derra wrote: »

kkampaseb17_ESO wrote: »

Derra wrote: »

So much is bugged. I don´t know how they can think they will get a working 1.6 to live in the next three weeks.

What three weeks? I believe they are planning to release it next Friday.

Sry. Three weeks is about the time they have until the re-release of tamriel unchained. Nobody will come back to a game that is more broken than when they left it

That they don´t care about the current playerbase when a bugged patch hits live is pretty clear by now...

Soo true

kkampaseb17_ESO · February 2015

Derra wrote: »

kkampaseb17_ESO wrote: »

Derra wrote: »

So much is bugged. I don´t know how they can think they will get a working 1.6 to live in the next three weeks.

What three weeks? I believe they are planning to release it next Friday.

Sry. Three weeks is about the time they have until the re-release of tamriel unchained. Nobody will come back to a game that is more broken than when they left it

That they don´t care about the current playerbase when a bugged patch hits live is pretty clear by now...

No I perfectly understood what you were referring to

But I think they are planning for an even earlier release of this patch....I really hope they have some kind of "fix all bugs" ace under their sleeves atm. There are plenty of gamebreaking bugs going about atm....

Kuro1n · February 2015

Wow, this needs some attention for sure!

Honestly though, I am scared they will release the patch without having fixed the über damage of 2H weapons.

Sypher · February 2015

@ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_JessicaFolsom can we get a response on this please

TheLaw · February 2015

I've had this happen to me on multiple occasions. SO many issues with 1.6.

Cody · February 2015

kkampaseb17_ESO wrote: »

Derra wrote: »

So much is bugged. I don´t know how they can think they will get a working 1.6 to live in the next three weeks.

What three weeks? I believe they are planning to release it next Friday.

what??????? next friday??

no no no ZOS!!!!!!! this WILL FAIL if it goes live like it is. GET 1.6 FIXED BEFORE PUTTING IT LIVE.

Gargragrond · February 2015

Let's just enjoy our last week. It will probably take several months until the game is playable again.

Xeniph · February 2015

I can confirm this is happening.

Hardened Ward/Healing Ward/and Harness Magicka were preventing most sneak attack stuns. It also is preventing some Wrecking Blow knockbacks (even out of stealth), as well as shield charge stuns.

However, not all the time, it's really inconsistent. I tested Brawler/Shielded Assault and neither of these abilities would produce these results. (Ie...prevent CC)

So the issue is with one of these abilities, or a combination of the 3.

More testing needs to be done.

* For control purposes, I had a NB, in and out of stealth,use as many CC abilities on my Sorc. while casting these shields on myself.

timidobserver · February 2015

I think you should have to collapse/destroy the shield before CC would work. If my shield completely negates the damage of your destructive touch by causing it not to reach me, then what exactly is CCing me.

LunaRae · February 2015

Good post Sypher, I'm hating damage shields right now - even more so in 1.6. Doubt they'll address this in a timely manner, but here's hoping.

Sypher · February 2015

timidobserver wrote: »

I think you should have to collapse/destroy the shield before CC would work. If my shield completely negates the damage of your destructive touch by causing it not to reach me, then what exactly is CCing me.

That's not consistent with other knockdown. (Crystal fragments, spear, stone fist)?

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indigoblades · February 2015

I keep hardened ward up continously in pvp/pve and i get cc'd all the time in both. Maybe those specifics skills arent working right but i know for a fact shields dont block CC, or how would get cc.

Also while testing my v1.6 sorc in spell car, which is even more shield dependant than ever.... every fight they got cc stunned at least once with near full shields.

Xeniph · February 2015

indigoblades wrote: »

I keep hardened ward up continously in pvp/pve and i get cc'd all the time in both. Maybe those specifics skills arent working right but i know for a fact shields dont block CC, or how would get cc.

Also while testing my v1.6 sorc in spell car, which is even more shield dependant than ever.... every fight they got cc stunned at least once with near full shields.

All testing I did was in pvp.

Also, you can clearly see it's not working as intended, if you would have watched the OP's Video.

I merely wanted to see for myself and while I did experience what he did, In my testing I found so much more.

Testing I did was done February 19 on the PTS, build 1.6.3

Sypher · February 2015

Doing more tests with different CCs today.