Unable to Attack Things Directly In Front of Me

Preyfar · July 2016

I often have an issue where I lose the ability to attack creatures standing directly in front of me. I'll be dropping damage reliably and without issue, and then I completely lose the ability to attack. Light or heavy attacks deal no damage, and ESO acts like whatever was in front of me is no longer there. If you look at my bar, you'll see direct attack skills are greyed out, though AOE still works (and will still hit the target I can't "see"). This issue is incredibly common problem for me, and one that started with the launch of DB.

It seems more likely to happen when there's a lot of things going on at the same time (like in Trials) but it can can happen just about everywhere -- dungeons, VMA, even to random squirrels sitting upon a hilltop. Immortal. Undaunted,. The squirrels stand unwavering in the face of danger knowing I can not attack them. I do not like to be bested by a squirrel. It makes Khajiit very sad.

Any ideas what causes this or how to fix it? I've tried running with all add-ons disabled but it still happens. I've /bugged it in game, but this issue is just getting more and more frustrating each time it happens.

Armitas · July 2016

Yeah I have seen some crazy stuff with attacks. I have watched my heavy attack bug out for 2 minutes where releasing my mouse button didn't release the heavy attack and halfway through the animation my toon would turn 90degrees and fire at nothing. Other times attacks just will not initiate. It's behaving pretty bizarrely.

Seeing something similar happen with dk chains. I will animate the cast, chains go out and hit the target but then nothing happens and it says target too far away.