Activating Synergies, Grenades & That Pesky vWGT Lock.

mistermutiny89

In the latest update synergies were given a minuscule one meter increase to activation range. However many players that I've spoken to especially on consoles regarding the matter are still struggling to activate synergies. Particularly difficult synergies to activate include:

- Shackle from the Dk Standard
- Impale from the dk Talons
- Gravity Crush from Templar's Solar Disturbance (?)
- Storm Atronach from Sorcerer

Your first advice when reading this may be to ensure we are pressing Y + B at the same time, but let me say that most consolers are very used to this input. For me it was a staple for many console games back during the first Mortal Kombat on Sega Mega Drive all the way to now. I believe the issue comes from synergies not being rightly prioritized. Such situations where this may be an issue include: lootable enemies and the option to "hold to interact" if your team mate is near a synergy.

As looting or interacting with your team mates is prioritized, we miss out on the opportunity to activate the synergy or are left frantically swiveling our camera trying to find the sweet spot to bring up the synergy notification.

There are times where there are no such obstacles, like the Storm Atronach for example; you race up to him whilst you have that quick break in your rotation to grab the imperative major berserk buff only to never see the synergy pop up at all. The same can be said for the grenades in vICP where you are literally sitting on top of them and no notification to activate the grenade comes up... Then you go to another, and it does in pure ESO 50 percent working, 50 percent not working fashion.

The greatest bane of all comes from when that Harvester Hoebilly that locks you in a jail cell in vWGT where the notification to unlock the gate pops up and your character just jumps in the air, whilst slowly burning to a crisp. You angle your camera in every which direction praying for that perfect millimeter to enter lockpicking mode, only to do so at the very last moment before death. The cell on the inner right of the arena is particularly bad. The others not so much.

These are not just my issues but others that I have asked, people in the UK without ping issues on EU and people with ping issues like my local friends and I here in Australia.

One work around I've found that I use when doors don't bring up an option to interact with them is to bar swap. However this only works sometimes. If you have a work around or troubles activating the above, let us know!!