Shield-bug ever to be fixed???

Morvul

are there any plans to look at a fix for the infamous "shield bug" aka: showing shield values when in fact one does not have a damage shield active anymore?
It's usually triggered when a shielded player is attacked with resto-staff light and heavy attacks during mildly laggy conditions...

also: when relogging to clear the shield bug, I tent to loose my cyordiil buffs in the process - requiring a SECOND relog to fix that issue... any chance at all for anyone to ever look into that?

QuebraRegra

how about the WAR HORN health bug while we're at it?

OGLezard

how about fix the countless exploits people abuse on a daily basis BEFORE we fix these visual bugs.........

imokie2609

It seems to me the shield bug happens way more often on the PTS in IC. It's really annoying.

DDemon

OGLezard wrote: »

how about fix the countless exploits people abuse on a daily basis BEFORE we fix these visual bugs.........

Yes, because not knowing your shield is gone when you have to depend on a shield to not die in one hit is not important at all.

This bug really... bugs me, and has caused me many deaths, and it has been in the game for as-long as I can remember.

GeertKarel

Jep it can be quite frustrating that you think you have a shield around you by looking at your health bar but actuatlly you dont.
Also the healing ultimate of the templar can bug out the health and you can't really see what you have to do since some people are just staying on a certain health.

Tankqull

imokie2609 wrote: »

It seems to me the shield bug happens way more often on the PTS in IC. It's really annoying.

mobs involved in hordes in every fight multply the amount of lightattacks against a shielded player tremendously increasing the amount of times that issue occurs.

Asmael

I noticed using Igneous shield followed by Defensive posture (there isn't even a defense shield in that o.O) shows wrong values. of course, when Defensive posture is off, the "extra shield" is still shown...

Way to say: shield addons are useless, because the values shown are just way too unreliable.

Olivierko

Strictly an API issue, since there is no default UI in place for shields I doubt that this will get the love it needs.

It's been reported without any response for quite some time now.

Regardless, shield info addons aren't useless, just ask the developer of the addon you're using for a temporary fix; for instance a command for manually restoring the shield values.

Morvul

Olivierko wrote: »

Strictly an API issue, since there is no default UI in place for shields I doubt that this will get the love it needs.

It's been reported without any response for quite some time now.

Regardless, shield info addons aren't useless, just ask the developer of the addon you're using for a temporary fix; for instance a command for manually restoring the shield values.

There IS a default UI to show my own shields (it's implemented in the default healthbar).
Incidentially, the default UI bugs out at the same times, with the same frequency as any addon, with regard to player shield status.
Hence the problem can not be fixed by some magical "refresh" of any addon - hell, an entire "reload ui" does not fix it.

The only way to clear the problem, is a relog.
A relog in cyrodiil very reliably leeds to loss of PvP buffs upon relog, making a second relog required...

Olivierko

Morvul wrote: »

There IS a default UI to show my own shields (it's implemented in the default healthbar).

I wasn't aware that this had been added to the default UI on PC.

Morvul wrote: »

Hence the problem can not be fixed by some magical "refresh" of any addon - hell, an entire "reload ui" does not fix it.

Shield values can be based on following API events:
EVENT_UNIT_ATTRIBUTE_VISUAL_ADDED
EVENT_UNIT_ATTRIBUTE_VISUAL_REMOVED
EVENT_UNIT_ATTRIBUTE_VISUAL_UPDATED

What I'm referring to isn't ideal in any way, however a manual indication would be helpful in the scenarios when you're certain that your current shield value is inaccurate.

Knowing that current shield value can't be trusted and just deducting current amount of the "invalid" shield each time the actual shield calculation is made would eliminate the problem.

Another work-around would be to check if there's any shield value even tho the player doesn't have any active buffs that may provide a shield, making the whole manual indication feature obsolete since this can be done using events that aren't broken to my knowledge at the time of this writing.

Regardless neither solution is optimal but I fear that this bug might be with us for some time to come.