Please fix Restoration Staff!!!!!

RenhardtESO

Please fix the animation for the restoration staff! It is so buggy. Everything else is so good with this game and I love the changes since update 6, but somehow the resto staff which I use 90% of the time is jacked! The targeting is off, the animation for the heavy attack doesn't work half the time. It's all aesthetic and it seems to be functioning properly, but it's hard to tell wether I am actually hitting anyone most of the time. I've used the other staffs and they all see fine since the changes made in update 6. I hope this can be fixed! It was perfect before the update!

jluceyub17_ESO

I haven't noticed any issues with resto staff, what exactly is going wrong for you?

RenhardtESO

Half the time the animation for the heavy attack doesn't play, or there is no beam coming out of the staff, or it just sits there spinning when I am trying to attack someone with it. Can't tell if I am actually hitting people.

Merlin13KAGL

The HA animation not firing is probably due to the targeting. The base animation should be much more minor when your just waving it about (no target).

About three things you can do to help with this:

• Use Tab Targetting, it allows the hit box to be a little bigger than it otherwise would be.
• Press and hold and move your character slightly until you connect. Since it's a channeled attack, you can actually continuously hold the button and when a viable target is within range, it will automatically start the sequence. Then look for the channeled animation (golden line) - no animation, no HA. (Lightning staff works the same, btw)
• Depending on your choice of 1st person/3rd person, adjust your targetting - you can fine tune your camera view to help dial in the area of the screen you would normally consider your sight. This can help tremendously.

RenhardtESO

Maybe I will try the adjust targeting. I have done that where I just hold it down and wait for it to connect with what I am aiming at, but the animation sometimes still won't play or is delayed.

RazzPitazz

It could also be how many particles you have set to be displayed through your settings. Resto staff particles seem to be the first to go if this is set lower.

MissBizz

@jluceyub17_ESO Not sure, but maybe @Seanathen is experiencing the same as me. I wasn't sure if it was a funny animation or not, but maybe I'll bring up my combat log tonight and check it out.

It's like... when I'm doing a heavy attack.. I'm not. I'm not sure if I'm not actually doing the heavy attack at all, or if the animation just isn't going. You honestly have no idea if you are doing a heavy attack..

The end of your staff doesn't light up, and that string of light that shows from your staff to the mob doesn't show either, although you do still hold your staff off to the side and wave it..

RenhardtESO

Oh I never played with that setting. Should I be making it higher? I don't have the best system for graphics and pretty much play on Medium.

Jando

I agree, healing staff still needs some work. I do think it's slightly better since upddate 6, but the targeting and animations still feel "off".

Lirkin

For me when I do heavy attacks it stutters when the mobs health is low and seems to take longer to kill.

RenhardtESO

YES @MissBizz !!! Exactly!!

MissBizz

rajaniemiorama_ESO wrote: »

It could also be how many particles you have set to be displayed through your settings. Resto staff particles seem to be the first to go if this is set lower.

I play on high/ultra high, so my particle settings are not the problem. I will investigate the targeting possibility. You would think it should target like a destruction staff though. I never experience this on my fire staff. (I use fire staff while questing, only use restoration as a 2nd bar I barely go to, or as my main weapon in group settings)

Maybe it is working like they want, but I really would like it ALL staffs had the same targeting abilities etc.

Fleshreaper

There is also an issue with switching between bow and healing staff when you have the fighters guild expert hunter, I believe it's called, active. The glow effect of the bow stays, so it looks like you are carrying a glowing cross.

RenhardtESO

Yeah @MissBizz I play the same when I am doing solo. My flame staff is perfect! But switch to resto or using resto in dungeons and it's all over the place

jluceyub17_ESO

Fleshreaper wrote: »

There is also an issue with switching between bow and healing staff when you have the fighters guild expert hunter, I believe it's called, active. The glow effect of the bow stays, so it looks like you are carrying a glowing cross.

I've noticed this too but with DW/2H swapping. It seems to work both ways too so whichever weapon I have out when I cast Expert Hunter, the glow effect remains in that weapon's shape even after I've switch weapons.

Valymer

Resto staff animation is incredibly buggy right now

Merlin13KAGL

MissBizz wrote: »

@jluceyub17_ESO Not sure, but maybe @Seanathen is experiencing the same as me. I wasn't sure if it was a funny animation or not, but maybe I'll bring up my combat log tonight and check it out.

It's like... when I'm doing a heavy attack.. I'm not. I'm not sure if I'm not actually doing the heavy attack at all, or if the animation just isn't going. You honestly have no idea if you are doing a heavy attack..

The end of your staff doesn't light up, and that string of light that shows from your staff to the mob doesn't show either, although you do still hold your staff off to the side and wave it..

@MissBizz , OP one of the things you can do if you think you've connected is turn your camera a bit, during. If the Heavy is actually going off, the channeled attack will remain 'attached' even if you shift your view (not drastically, <180).

Another thing you can try is a lightning staff - same idea with the channel and the targetting but fewer restro sparkles if you're not actually connecting. This can help you see if your personal targetting is off just a touch and can be adjusted with camera settings, or if it's in fact a restro only bug.

c00lmon wrote: »

For me when I do heavy attacks it stutters when the mobs health is low and seems to take longer to kill.

@c00lmon , I have had this happen, as well. It's as it the Line of Sight is dodgy or the client is trying to fire off multiple light attacks instead of single heavy.

MissBizz

@Merlin13KAGL Even if my targeting IS off a bit, I think it's odd that they would make targeting different between the staffs.

Merlin13KAGL

@MissBizz , in my personal experience, it's not so much that the targetting is different between the two. I originally focused my expected target around the added visual effect that is exclusive to the restro staff.

I think if that part of the visual could be temporarily turned off (the sparkles and afterglow) and the channel only remained, I think you would find them identical. The effect is simply less pronounced on the lightning staff, so I subconsciously was adjusting for it less.

Neither of these may be the case for either of you, but it's the suggestion I can offer to see if it's the staff or it's the glow that's throwing you off.

sagitter

I think too that 1.5 resto staff heavy attack animation was better.

Jeremy

Seanathen wrote: »

Please fix the animation for the restoration staff! It is so buggy. Everything else is so good with this game and I love the changes since update 6, but somehow the resto staff which I use 90% of the time is jacked! The targeting is off, the animation for the heavy attack doesn't work half the time. It's all aesthetic and it seems to be functioning properly, but it's hard to tell wether I am actually hitting anyone most of the time. I've used the other staffs and they all see fine since the changes made in update 6. I hope this can be fixed! It was perfect before the update!

I have this same problem.

The animation at times gets stuck and never finishes. It seems to happen most often when the enemy is weak and the heavy attack does more damage then the enemy has HP. This results in the animation sticking and the target never dying until I stop attacking.

MissBizz

Merlin13KAGL wrote: »

@MissBizz , in my personal experience, it's not so much that the targetting is different between the two. I originally focused my expected target around the added visual effect that is exclusive to the restro staff.

I think if that part of the visual could be temporarily turned off (the sparkles and afterglow) and the channel only remained, I think you would find them identical. The effect is simply less pronounced on the lightning staff, so I subconsciously was adjusting for it less.

Neither of these may be the case for either of you, but it's the suggestion I can offer to see if it's the staff or it's the glow that's throwing you off.

I target with my reticle.. so in my mind, if targeting is the same for both staffs.. the resto staff must be bugged. As I mentioned, I do not find this with my destruction staff. The problem is the channel does NOT appear at all for the resto when this happens. It's not "less pronounced" or anything, it just simply is not there.

eventide03b14a_ESO

Seanathen wrote: »

Please fix the animation for the restoration staff! It is so buggy. Everything else is so good with this game and I love the changes since update 6, but somehow the resto staff which I use 90% of the time is jacked! The targeting is off, the animation for the heavy attack doesn't work half the time. It's all aesthetic and it seems to be functioning properly, but it's hard to tell wether I am actually hitting anyone most of the time. I've used the other staffs and they all see fine since the changes made in update 6. I hope this can be fixed! It was perfect before the update!

It's not just the restoration staff. I find the same problems using the lightning staff too. Even certain spells won't go off unless your reticle is dead center. They need to fix the targeting in general IMO and make it much more forgiving.

Merlin13KAGL

sagitter wrote: »

I think too that 1.5 resto staff heavy attack animation was better.

Hands down, Destro too. What, am I playing polo or focusing projectiles of raw arcane energy here?

Epiphany

c00lmon wrote: »

For me when I do heavy attacks it stutters when the mobs health is low and seems to take longer to kill.

This happens to me as well. When I try to do a heavy attack on a mob that has just a sliver of health, the resto staff will fire off five short attacks which do no damage until the fifth one hits.