Swapping weapons when tanking

mildlylucid

Two issues that I've noticed while tanking which I view to be bigger problems with tanking in eso than no stamina regen when blocking.
1. Swapping weapons when blocking drops the block
Personally my tanking style involves using more than 5 skills+ult in a fight which can go wrong if you mistime. I didn't notice this until relatively recently (past month or so).
2. Swapping weapons causes hp to drop
Seems counter-intuitive that in swapping bars I lose ~1k hp. This is probably because I have structured entropy slotted, but regardless I lose the hp swapping from either bar to the other.

I find this issues frustrating and so I'm wondering if they're intentional bugs features or are actually unintentional and could be fixed.

Acsvf

I'd assume it's intentional.

ClockworkArc

These are intentional.

1.They've said this is part of the game. Likewise, when you cast a spell there is a small frame where your block drops but this can be animation cancelled. There is also a small frame where you can't block when you complete a dodge roll. Tanking is all about timing.

2. Makes perfect sense. To solve this, most tanks end up plopping structured entropy on both bars if they are looking for the extra max health. Otherwise, the only time youd ever enchant your shield with health or use structured entropy on a single bar is if you were using abilities like Blazing Shield, Bone Shield, Unstable Clannfear, Dragon Blood, etc. In these cases youd think of the bar with less hp as your "max health".

Vangy

Intentional.

1. You cannot block during weapon swap. Because.. you are swapping weapons.
2. Structured entropy provides a buff for being slotted. If you swap to a bar that dosent have it, you will lose the bonus. I believe the tooltip is abundantly clear about that. (first time ive actually said a tooltip in ESO was clear btw....)

Solutions:

Time your weapon swaps. Its a non-issue really. The no block regen sucks yes, but this weapon swap = no block thing is trivial.

Slot any essential buff skills you need that provide bonuses for being slotted on both bars. You cant use too many of them cos they take up space =( Choose wisely!

NBrookus

mildlylucid wrote: »

2. Swapping weapons causes hp to drop
Seems counter-intuitive that in swapping bars I lose ~1k hp. This is probably because I have structured entropy slotted, but regardless I lose the hp swapping from either bar to the other.

Aside from the use of slotted buffs, there's another issue here. For those that haven't seen it, let's say you have one bar #1 with 30k health and the bar #2 at 29k health. When you swap from bar #1 to bar #2, your health will temporarily drop to something like 27K, then climb back up to 29k over the course of about 2 seconds.

What I think happens if that each time you swap, there's a lag before the buffs on that skill bar are applied. This may be just a display issue; it hasn't killed me yet.

Oompuh

Swapping weapons causes you to drop block, dont swap weapons when you are about to get hit in the face, Time it well.

As for the health buff, if you dont want it to move. double bar it.

They is all features of the game