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Almost Unblockable Ambush
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Since TG patch, in which the most scary and bad designed feature was implemented (animation prioritization) not only fights became much slower because although most of skills are of instant cast most of them have unnecessary long animations.
However, prior to it, the Ambush skill could be blocked as long as you were able to see the enemy doing the characteristic movement and you started blocking. But now it seems that most of the times this skill can't be blocked because its animation is super short and seems to be triggered much earlier than the blocking animation (speaking in milliseconds, of course).
The results are terrifying, both in PvP and in PvE as well. In PvE, mostly in dolmens and places full of Nighblades, like veteran Fungal Grotto, the only way to not be stunned by this skill is walking towards the enemy holding block. In dolmens it's slightly worse because sometimes behind the Nightblades there are casters abusing of unblockable Fear. For stamina players is not a big deal, but for the rest, if we want to avoid the Nightblades we won't have enough stamina for the following break-free.
As of PvP, it promotes the abuse of the skill. Today I was running dolmens in Cyrodiil today, very casually, and two Nightblades went out of stealth right after finishing the boss and one of them spammed 6 Ambushes in a matter of seconds. I couldn't react because my shields are slow, my meteor is slow, my active bar can't afford hold buffs because Molag Kena's animation lags when changing bars (so I can't let shields and Liquid Lightning in the back bar, for example) and in the end those retardeds got the whole XP (closing the pinion) and the chest I did all the work for because of this futile feature added as workaround for the biggest issue in fights (animation cancelling)
However, prior to it, the Ambush skill could be blocked as long as you were able to see the enemy doing the characteristic movement and you started blocking. But now it seems that most of the times this skill can't be blocked because its animation is super short and seems to be triggered much earlier than the blocking animation (speaking in milliseconds, of course).
The results are terrifying, both in PvP and in PvE as well. In PvE, mostly in dolmens and places full of Nighblades, like veteran Fungal Grotto, the only way to not be stunned by this skill is walking towards the enemy holding block. In dolmens it's slightly worse because sometimes behind the Nightblades there are casters abusing of unblockable Fear. For stamina players is not a big deal, but for the rest, if we want to avoid the Nightblades we won't have enough stamina for the following break-free.
As of PvP, it promotes the abuse of the skill. Today I was running dolmens in Cyrodiil today, very casually, and two Nightblades went out of stealth right after finishing the boss and one of them spammed 6 Ambushes in a matter of seconds. I couldn't react because my shields are slow, my meteor is slow, my active bar can't afford hold buffs because Molag Kena's animation lags when changing bars (so I can't let shields and Liquid Lightning in the back bar, for example) and in the end those retardeds got the whole XP (closing the pinion) and the chest I did all the work for because of this futile feature added as workaround for the biggest issue in fights (animation cancelling)
I am the very model of a scientist Salarian, I've studied species Turian, Asari, and Batarian.
I'm quite good at genetics (as a subset of biology) because I am an expert (which I know is a tautology).
My xenoscience studies range from urban to agrarian, I am the very model of a Scientist Salarian.
I'm quite good at genetics (as a subset of biology) because I am an expert (which I know is a tautology).
My xenoscience studies range from urban to agrarian, I am the very model of a Scientist Salarian.
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✭ofullmetalbebop wrote: »im going to say this is a l2p issue
IDK
Those two NB's in stealth must have had a lot of fun seeing this poor guy working
ready for their cunning strike from stealth.
Little chance in that 1vs2 for OP by play skills
so not really a L2P issue for the OP....
it is more a Learn 2 Handle how unfair things often are.
or perhaps you did mean it was a L2P issue for those two NB's ?
Waiting in stealth at a Cyrodiil Dolmen hardly needs any playing skills....... just boring.
Edited by hrothbern on March 23, 2016 2:48PM"I still do not understand why I followed the advice of Captain Rana to bring the villagers of Bleakrock into safety. We should have fought for our village and not have backed down, with our tail between our legs. Now my home village is in shambles, the houses burning, the invaders feasting.I swear every day to Shor that after Molag Bal has been defeated, I will hunt down the invaders and restore peace in Bleakrock and drink my mead with my friends at the market place".PC-EU0 -
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✭Unbelievable! I start a discussion to relate that something is not working as it used to and nothing on Patch Notes indicates otherwise, I'm NOT complaining about missing the chest or being killed in Cyrodiil (in fact it saved me from the time waste of getting all the way back on foot), I am NOT saying that this behavior is affecting my sorcerer exclusively, even because the first I noticed it was on my Templar and even though I receive a *** L2P on my face.
Go the hellI am the very model of a scientist Salarian, I've studied species Turian, Asari, and Batarian.
I'm quite good at genetics (as a subset of biology) because I am an expert (which I know is a tautology).
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Attackopsn✭✭✭✭✭So one thing, they never actually released animation prioritization.ign: ATTACKO
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