Ultimate Failing to Cast [Glitch discussion]

ParaNostram

So to compensate for the changes made to sorcs in the DB I kept playing around with the tools available and eventually decided on running a pet build again (it works for me that's all that need be said there). So I take her to the field of Cyrodiil, have some pretty good success fighting with her, resisting groups of gankers while questing in Bruma, when I decided to take her to the larger battles for further testing. This is where the glitch came about...

Any time I tried to cast an aimed ultimate (such as negate or the storm atronach) it just won't cast if there were so many enemies on screen. I saw the circle that comes with such abilities be put on the ground, but nothing would be summoned. Nothing appeared. I still had full ultimate. So yeah, this is a problem. Anyone else having a similar problem or has ZOS decided on top of the nerf it was worth implementing a bug that specifically targets sorcs?

Dubhliam

I had a similar experience yesterday with bat swarm.

While I am surrounded with 6 enemies, I press my ulti and it does nothing.
Kept spamming R until I died.

WTF ZOS?

ParaNostram

Well then. Is it me or are there MORE bugs the further ESO is from launch than less? I love this game, but holy hell, they need to call an exterminator or maybe hire extra people just to go through the bugs.

Transairion

There's currently a bug with the Dark Brotherhood patch where all "reduce cost of Ultimate" passives aren't actually working: so while it appears you have full Ultimate, you actually only have like 170/200 and have to earn 30 more Ult before it will work correctly. Trying to use your Ultimate just when it appears "ready" as per normal, as you said, just makes the animation play 3/4 of the way through and then nothing happens.

It's pretty dang annoying, as the only workaround I've found is just to get full Ultimate and then wait a little longer (kill a few more mobs, etc) and then try it once again: waiting for extra Ultimate is allowing me to Ult relatively reliably again at least.

Supposedly it won't be fixed until next week's patch sometime, they were unable to find a way to hotfix it.

ParaNostram

Transairion wrote: »

There's currently a bug with the Dark Brotherhood patch where all "reduce cost of Ultimate" passives aren't actually working: so while it appears you have full Ultimate, you actually only have like 170/200 and have to earn 30 more Ult before it will work correctly. Trying to use your Ultimate just when it appears "ready" as per normal, as you said, just makes the animation play 3/4 of the way through and then nothing happens.

It's pretty dang annoying, as the only workaround I've found is just to get full Ultimate and then wait a little longer (kill a few more mobs, etc) and then try it once again: waiting for extra Ultimate is allowing me to Ult relatively reliably again at least.

Supposedly it won't be fixed until next week's patch sometime, they were unable to find a way to hotfix it.

HA! I made a joke it was a sorc specific bug but BY THE EIGHT IT ACTUALLY IS! Oh Mara preserve me and Sanguine satisfy me, this is hilarious. Like for real.

Hektik_V

ParaNostram wrote: »

Transairion wrote: »

There's currently a bug with the Dark Brotherhood patch where all "reduce cost of Ultimate" passives aren't actually working: so while it appears you have full Ultimate, you actually only have like 170/200 and have to earn 30 more Ult before it will work correctly. Trying to use your Ultimate just when it appears "ready" as per normal, as you said, just makes the animation play 3/4 of the way through and then nothing happens.

It's pretty dang annoying, as the only workaround I've found is just to get full Ultimate and then wait a little longer (kill a few more mobs, etc) and then try it once again: waiting for extra Ultimate is allowing me to Ult relatively reliably again at least.

Supposedly it won't be fixed until next week's patch sometime, they were unable to find a way to hotfix it.

HA! I made a joke it was a sorc specific bug but BY THE EIGHT IT ACTUALLY IS! Oh Mara preserve me and Sanguine satisfy me, this is hilarious. Like for real.

It's not sorc specific. It's anything that reduces the cost of an ulti i.e. templar passives, sorc passives, high level vampire stages and item sets.

ParaNostram

Hektik_V wrote: »

ParaNostram wrote: »

Transairion wrote: »

There's currently a bug with the Dark Brotherhood patch where all "reduce cost of Ultimate" passives aren't actually working: so while it appears you have full Ultimate, you actually only have like 170/200 and have to earn 30 more Ult before it will work correctly. Trying to use your Ultimate just when it appears "ready" as per normal, as you said, just makes the animation play 3/4 of the way through and then nothing happens.

It's pretty dang annoying, as the only workaround I've found is just to get full Ultimate and then wait a little longer (kill a few more mobs, etc) and then try it once again: waiting for extra Ultimate is allowing me to Ult relatively reliably again at least.

Supposedly it won't be fixed until next week's patch sometime, they were unable to find a way to hotfix it.

HA! I made a joke it was a sorc specific bug but BY THE EIGHT IT ACTUALLY IS! Oh Mara preserve me and Sanguine satisfy me, this is hilarious. Like for real.

It's not sorc specific. It's anything that reduces the cost of an ulti i.e. templar passives, sorc passives, high level vampire stages and item sets.

Yeah but it hurts sorcs most, as it effects every ultimate we have and we have no built in ultimate generation.

dsalter

as stated by others, ulti reduction is only working on tooltips, this mainly affects Sorcs, Vampires and barely affects templars (is 4% really that much?)