Unable to Weave Attacks. Abilities slow or not firing - Xbox 1 NA

SwaminoNowlino

Since Friday afternoon my guild mates and I have noticed that light attack weaving with staves is broken. Note that I am referring to pressing light attack, hitting an ability, then releasing the attack button. This form of weaving has worked since I've played the game. This is also compounded by the fact that abilities are slow to fire if they fire at all. Power surge and lightning form are the two chief offenders of this that I have noticed.

Tried different controllers. Not the controller. Checked my internet connection because the lag has also been insane. 75mbs download. Game is barely playable from a dps perspective. Asked around different zones and guilds and others are noticing this same problem.

Can trace this performance issue to the hotfix for maw. Don't know why this would have changed anything with abilities.

@Wrobel @ZOS_JessicaFolsom @ZOS_Finn

Pepper8Jack

I wouldn't say this is due to the hot fix for maw. My magicka sorc has always had issues properly executing weaves and bar swap cancels since Orsinium dropped

Alucardo

I stopped playing my magblade, because for some reason swallow soul just refuses to weave correctly. The light attack barely goes off unless I do the light attack completely after the animation of swallow soul has finishes (obviously on the second rotation). The whole thing feels clunky and slow.

C4Bliss

Same problem on xbox eu. weaving is impossible (medium and light) and most of the time you can't swap bars... mostly happens on mag characters. It also only seems to happen in dungeons and trials.

SwaminoNowlino

@Pepper8Jack don't necessarily think it's related to the hotfix aside from the timing. It was bad for a while after dark brotherhood I believe. Nifty has.a 30 page long thread about that. I quit playing mag characters after that update. With the stam meta, I have been playing mag characters more and more. The majority of my time in One Tamriel has been on a magicka character. Friday night was the first time I noticed the issue in a big way. My weave wasn't firing at all and I was unable to do anything but light attack. Also noticed I kept dying because surge wasn't firing.

@c4bliss that's why I tagged @ZOS_Finn. I can sometimes weave open world but in a dungeon or trial instance it just doesn't work.

FriedEggSandwich

I agree. I find block cancelling helps to keep the rhythm going and prevent getting stuck in HA animation, at least on medium weaves, but this doesn't help if you're taking damage cos it will just drain your stam. Liquid lightening has been difficult to bar swap cancel for a few patches. Just straight weaving is definitely problematic though, moreso since update 12; my char gets stuck in all the animations.

Fallewarrior

I have exactly the same problem on my mageblade. After a heavy attack u sometimes can't use a skill for 1-2 seconds.
Medium attack weaving barely works, only if you do it really slow. Sometimes the combat gets really clunky and slow..
Takes all the fun away and dps goes to ***..

Please fix these weird destro staff attack bugs..

Stoopid_Nwah

Alucardo wrote: »

I stopped playing my magblade, because for some reason swallow soul just refuses to weave correctly. The light attack barely goes off unless I do the light attack completely after the animation of swallow soul has finishes (obviously on the second rotation). The whole thing feels clunky and slow.

This. It was discussed extensively on the forums with at least one thread having video evidence. This was around the time Dark Brotherhood was released, which is when I also noticed it was really bad with weaving on my magnbs.

Here's that thread I mentioned https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/269046/light-attacking-is-broken-and-animation-priority TLDR: Tons of people noticed issues with light attack weaving especially magicka nbs weaving with swallow soul and staves. After a couple of months of everyone wanting answers and discussing what was going on, ZOS shut it down and never gave any answers .

Fallewarrior

@ZOS_GinaBruno
@ZOS_JessicaFolsom
@ZOS_KaiSchober

Can we please get an update. The previous thread was shutdown without us ever getting an answer..
This currently seriously impacts Mageblades. Tho other classes also suffer but not as badly.