Is Vicious Death broken?

Rhandee235

There has been some chatter in guild about vicious death not working any more. Some have stopped using it.

Yesterday, at some point during the day, I noted the number of Vicious Death killing blows recorded with Kill Counter. Later, with about 160 deaths and 36 killing blows, I had only recorded one killing blow by vicious death. This is not a great test of the skill because not all VD procs result in death. But I spent most of that time in large group v large group fights and would have expected a few more than that.

Also, in several 1v or isolated fights with kills, I just don't see the explosion of vicious death.

Finally, my own kill recap has seen very few (any?) vicious death contributions, even though I am frequently pretty close to guildies and used to see them more often.

Anyone else seeing this?

Lenikus

That set is meant to hit groups, you will never see it's effect in 1v1s or even 1vX where the group is not stacked.

What happened (reason why people stopped using it) is that Zenimax fixed a bug that was causing (in some specific cases) it to actualyl proc on execute range, and the usual UI bug that caused it to always show on teh death recap of the victim (granting the illusion that you always took damage from it)

So people who were stupid enough to believe teh UI bug in the first place now say 'it doesn't work anymore' and people who knowingly exploited the set to kill shield stacker now stoped because the set is fixed.
Still a great zerg buster

SJD_Phoenix

Lenikus wrote: »

That set is meant to hit groups, you SHOULD never see it's effect in 1v1s or even 1vX where the group is not stacked.

What happened (reason why people stopped using it) is that Zenimax fixed a bug that was causing (in some specific cases) it to actualyl proc on execute range, and the usual UI bug that caused it to always show on teh death recap of the victim (granting the illusion that you always took damage from it)

So people who were stupid enough to believe teh UI bug in the first place now say 'it doesn't work anymore' and people who knowingly exploited the set to kill shield stacker now stoped because the set is fixed.
Still a great zerg buster

Fixed your original statement

Rhandee235

Lenikus wrote: »

That set is meant to hit groups, you will never see it's effect in 1v1s or even 1vX where the group is not stacked.

What happened (reason why people stopped using it) is that Zenimax fixed a bug that was causing (in some specific cases) it to actualyl proc on execute range, and the usual UI bug that caused it to always show on teh death recap of the victim (granting the illusion that you always took damage from it)

So people who were stupid enough to believe teh UI bug in the first place now say 'it doesn't work anymore' and people who knowingly exploited the set to kill shield stacker now stopped because the set is fixed.
Still a great zerg buster

The UI bug was well known and discussed. I expected to see fewer deaths from it because folks are spreading out. I wasn't aware of the exploit with shield stacker.

That's why this is more of a "feel it out" post. I guess I'm just not seeing the explosions when I make a kill and am connecting the dots on this. Thanks for your reply. I'll keep running it for a while and watching it more closely.

jwarren68

I noticed this too. I can't remember seeing any vicious death damage done in FTC, although I definitely killed folks within groups, while wearing it. For 1 or 2 weeks now.

Ethromelb14_ESO

Yes indeed ... And the devs like it that way. They actually get a kick out of it. You can see them in a live stream laughing their rears off, when people get KO'd from it.

KingYogi415

It used to double proc!
So you have to play fair now!

jwarren68

Update: It's working. Confirmed several times last night .

hrothbern

jwarren68 wrote: »

Update: It's working. Confirmed several times last night .

yeah
can confirm that also for last night