Bone Shield tooltip wrong?

Initiate_Jhassir

Surfinginhawaii wrote: »

I leveled up spiked bone shield to level IV and I'm not impressed the shield you get from brawler is much better, in my opinion.

That is because Bone Shield is currently broken and only absorbing a minuscule amount of damage. When it gets fixed it should be significantly better.

SanTii.92

I plea to this bug fix as soon as posible.

cwp303b14_ESO

I would really appreciate a response from an official source stating that they are at least aware of the issue and that steps are being taken to rectify the situation. The silence kills me.

Lhorion

The thing that makes me sad..... Zenimax is ignoring this bug.

@ZOS_GinaBruno Can you give us a feedback so we can know you even have red this post?

corbyone

Lhorion wrote: »

The thing that makes me sad..... Zenimax is ignoring this bug.

@ZOS_GinaBruno Can you give us a feedback so we can know you even have red this post?

+1 any resposne @ZOS_GinaBruno ?

Varicite

It figures that the only non-weapon restricted stamina-based shield in the entire game is bugged to Oblivion and back.

A shame that ZOS doesn't seem to care, but hey, it only took them a year to make stamina builds useful for something other than padding magicka users' kill counts.

I can't say I'm terribly surprised. : P

Charadras

+1 any resposne @ZOS_GinaBruno ?

Caza99

Would really like to know whats up with Bone Shield... @ZOS_GinaBruno

cwp303b14_ESO

Update: last night I was tanking on an alt with rank 1 bone shield and it was working exactly as stated. It could be a rank bug on my main or it was somehow fixed in the last patch.

I will need to do more testing to see if it is universally fixed for all ranks and morphs.

Varicite

cwp303b14_ESO wrote: »

Update: last night I was tanking on an alt with rank 1 bone shield and it was working exactly as stated. It could be a rank bug on my main or it was somehow fixed in the last patch.

I will need to do more testing to see if it is universally fixed for all ranks and morphs.

How is "exactly as stated"?

Is it a 30% max hp shield that lasts 5 seconds?

Or does it just mitigate 30% of incoming damage (still taking 70% damage per hit)?

Because in the past, it was just an armor boost that mitigated things, and in 1.5 it became a damage shield. Now I'm not sure exactly which it is, lol.

Athas24

cwp303b14_ESO wrote: »

To clarify my above post: Bone Shield only ever absorbs 3% physical damage per hit instead of 30%. This is from testing on multiple enemies and checking to make sure all the damage taken was physical.

Can anyone else confirm?

I started using this a while ago and took it off my skill bar because it was Terrible without being used in groups for the synergy. The shield only lasts a few seconds and the cost is too much to spam it in my opinion. I was also taking tons of damage while it was still up. Compared to using the lighting armor buff on my sorcerer this thing was trash. It does not seem to be absorbing damage until it breaks since things get through it and the fact it only lasts a few seconds doesn't help either. Good call OP on the skill not working properly.

cwp303b14_ESO

Varicite wrote: »

cwp303b14_ESO wrote: »

Update: last night I was tanking on an alt with rank 1 bone shield and it was working exactly as stated. It could be a rank bug on my main or it was somehow fixed in the last patch.

I will need to do more testing to see if it is universally fixed for all ranks and morphs.

How is "exactly as stated"?

Is it a 30% max hp shield that lasts 5 seconds?

Or does it just mitigate 30% of incoming damage (still taking 70% damage per hit)?

Because in the past, it was just an armor boost that mitigated things, and in 1.5 it became a damage shield. Now I'm not sure exactly which it is, lol.

It's hard to tell exactly without further testing since I was tanking and was only going to use it for the synergy since my group had low HP but the shield was reported by Foundry Tactical Combat addon to be absorbing all physical damage until the shield broke. My HP also didn't move when I was only facing physical damage mobs and spamming the shield which supports the full damage shield I was observing.

Still need to test different ranks and morphs to confirm.

My wife was healing the group and thought I lost my mind when I started shouting, "It works! I can't believe it! aaaahahaha!"

Varicite

LOL. I hope she didn't think you were talking about her healing... <.<

Initiate_Jhassir

Is anyone else still having problems with this ability? It still seems to be broken/not working as intended according to the tooltip.

Waffennacht

I have wondered this too. I had assumed it stopped 30% damage of an attack.

After reading through I can see the confusion and now I want an answer.

Also, is it still bugged and/or working on consule?

Skullstachio

I plan on getting the Boneshield when my Undaunted gets to 4.(currently 3) here is something I found on ESOhead.

Surround yourself with a whirlwind of bones, absorbing physical damage equivalent to 30% of your Max Health.
Allies can activate the Bone Wall synergy, absorbing damage to allies equal to 60% of their Max Health. The wall lasts 10 seconds and affects up to four nearby allies.

From what I know piled with the people's extensive knowledge (I mean that of those reading this comment), it may seem that since it says that it absorbs physical damage "Equivalent to 30%" of your health. it could very well be the fact that the more you put attribute points into Health. The more effective the boneshield could possibly be since it solemnly relies on your health. (Info may need field testing just to be sure.)

2 things i noticed though (you can answer these optionally.)

1: Since it relies on health, could it not be possible that it becomes less effective when your health is heavily damaged?

2: does Boneshield cover spell damage as well?

ThaJollabyb14_ESO

You know how the light armor skill Annulment creates a shield that absorbs spell damage? It's like that but the bone shield ability creates a damage shield equal to 30% of your max health and absorbs physical damage only. The synergy however, gives allies a damage shield for 60% of their max hp and that shield absorbs both physical and magical damage. Since it's scaled on MAX hp, it will be the same strength regardless of your current health. Shame it only lasts 5 seconds to the Annulment's 20 but I guess the synergy is the trade off. I use it on my DK healer alongside igneous shield to increase healing output and protect against crits (since a critical hit cannot currently land on a damage shield)

dodgehopper_ESO

LegendaryMage wrote: »

Lasts for 5 seconds, needs its duration extended to at least 8-10 seconds. And maybe even longer (it's available to all classes so no complaining who has it and who doesn't).

All shields should have more comparable effects I think. Bone Shield is one of the ones I quit using ages ago because its laughably weak.

Brrrofski

I stopped using it completely.

It didn't seem to much of anything. Need that stamina for blocking, not a tiny bit of a shield.

Considering it's from the undaunted, it should pretty much be THE shield.