ZOS... bug or intended?

GreenSoup2HoT · January 2016

Currently you can wear any combination of set's or crafted weapon's and still gain the set bonuses from each weapon. Even though it is impossible to have both main and secondary weapon active at the same time.

For instance you can do the following:

-You can wear 3 agility weapon's, 1 main + 1 off hand and 1 secondary. You will still retain the 3 set bonuses on both bar's.
-You can wear any 3 crafted weapon's and only 2 set piece's to gain full effect of the five piece bonuses, even though you only have 4-3 equipped at one time.

It is intended to work this way after these DLC's? This bring's forth ton's of new combination's of set's etc. However this also increases the amount of stat's one could achieve before this was possible.

Many people have already found out that this was possible as well and have started to abuse/use this combination.

Many people say this may be a UI bug but i just want to clarify this with you guy's. What's the deal here?

@ZOS_GinaBruno

Arkadius · January 2016

I can't reproduce this bug with my Magnus set (2 armor pieces, 2 swords, 1 healing staff). Always getting the right number of bonuses on each bar (3 or 4, but never 5). Are only certain sets affected? However, I can't imagine it's intended to work in another way.

GreenSoup2HoT · January 2016

@Xiana I forgot to mention, the set bonuses do not light up but you are still granted the stat's on your character sheet.

Also you need to weapon swap once to activate it. I've done this test multiple time's with 3 agility weapon's and hunding rage. My stat's and tooltip's do indeed change. However it will not display 5/5 (3/3 depend's what you use) piece's equipped while looking at your equipment.

The easiest way to test this, you just wear two piece's of a set on either bar. Then change one of them to something else with identical stat's. Your tooltip's and character sheet will change.

Nestor · January 2016

GreenSoup2HoT wrote: »

@Xiana I forgot to mention, the set bonuses do not light up but you are still granted the stat's on your character sheet.

Yes, but does the damage output indicate the extra weapon damage bonus is still in effect? The reason I ask is the character sheet is not the most accurate way to see what is going on with your character (UI issues).

Kammakazi · January 2016

Wow we were supposed to keep this a secret...

;]

GreenSoup2HoT · January 2016

@Nestor

I play console so there is no sure tell that this is a UI issue or not. I have noticed a damage difference when i tested this on npc's though.

I have also tested this with health enchant's set bonuses, it seem's i can take more damage from npc's.

glavius · January 2016

I tested this both with agility and morkuldin sets.
You don't get any extra actual damage/healing from it. It's a UI bug only...

GreenSoup2HoT · January 2016

Kammakazi wrote: »

Wow we were supposed to keep this a secret...

;]

I know i know.

However.. I'd like to know ahead of time if it's intended or not. I don't currently have 3 piece's of agility jewelry since i can just use the weapon's. I'm still 50/50 on whether this actually work's and it's not just a UI bug. It's to hard to tell on console.

If it is a UI bug...i can at least start farming for jewelry instead of wasting my time thinking i have the 3 set agility active with weapon's.

Nestor · January 2016

You can't put health enchants on Weapons.

I am not sure this is all that helpful a bug to be honest. The beauty of Agility (or Willpower or the Health set whatever it is called) is the Jewelry. This gives you the 3 piece bonus and allows you to still have a 5 plus 3/4 or 2 piece plus Molag Kena bonuses on top of that from crafted or dropped set gear.

For me to do this, I would have to give up other set bonuses that I have. I might have to test this, but I won't be on tonight and will probably forget to test on Saturday AM

GreenSoup2HoT · January 2016

@Nestor

You can use Endurance Weapon's to test this out for hp. Didn't mean to say enchant's, i meant set bonuses.

If this issue actually work's, you could technically wear 3 agility, 3 endurance, a 5 piece set and a 2 piece monster set. Or you could wear 2 5 piece set's and a Jewelry 3 piece set. That's why this is significant.

glavius wrote: »

I tested this both with agility and morkuldin sets.
You don't get any extra actual damage/healing from it. It's a UI bug only...

Does the UI bug transfer over to skill tool-tip's as well? Miss representing the damage you actually do? Did you take all the step's i have said in previous comment's into consideration?

For me at least, it does seem like it work's in my testing's.

If you could help de-bunk this i would appreciate it

Arkadius · January 2016

Did a few tests (with my said Magnus' Gift set).

My damage did not increase while wielding the staff and I could not get 5-pieces-bonus procs while spamming BoL.

So, for me it just looks like an UI error.

Nestor · January 2016

GreenSoup2HoT wrote: »

and a 2 piece monster set.

One of the hallmarks of a good discussion is to use reasonable assumptions.....

OK, just busting your chops here, but Monster Helms are not the easiest thing to get in this game.

GreenSoup2HoT · January 2016

Xiana wrote: »

Did a few tests (with my said Magnus' Gift set).

My damage did not increase while wielding the staff and I could not get 5-pieces-bonus procs while spamming BoL.

So, for me it just looks like an UI error.

Could you also test with other weapon type's too

it could be specific like that. It may not be all set's or weapon's.

If it's just a UI bug, i'm betting a lot of people are rocking stat's that are not correct because of this issue. Me being one of them :P

@Nestor i know. i only have 2 shoulder piece's. i don't pve. cant wait for the undaunted vendor tho