Staff heavy attacks BUG

Nullmagic

There is something weird going on with staff heavy attacks lately. I first noticed with an inferno staff that heavy attacks (full or partly charged) would sometimes not register on monsters (or players). Today I was playing with a lightning staff and the behaviour is just as bad or worse. When you try to channel, it just won't fire, or sometimes it will tick once or twice then just stop for now reason. Or sometimes it works just fine.

I haven't been able to pin down what's causing it, but it seems to *maybe* have something to do with range. Ie, at certain ranges it just doesn't work. Or, possibly, with elevation.. possibly if you are at different elevations it stops working.. I don't know.. it is somewhat intermittent, but is happening enough to drive me crazy. Especially in PvP..

Has anyone else seen this?

Nullmagic

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Koolio

Been an issue for as long as I can remember.

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/289779/issue-destro-heavy-attack-targeting-misses-no-shuffle

Nullmagic

Ugh. Not surprising. Weird that it only really started happening to me (often enough to be a pain in the ###) recently, though.

Nullmagic

Eh, ZOS. Is there any plan on ever fixing this? Heavy attacks are kind of important now, you know. For sustain? It happens with bows as well, I've noticed.

kimaeril

I'm having this issue too and it's frustrating especially if you're trying to build magicka back up. It's been going on for awhile but seems worse for me lately.

Nullmagic

Same. I've basically given up on characters that need to heavy attack with staves or bows. With bows, it pretty much always just light attacks once then does nothing. I actually thought my mouse buttons were dying, but nope. Just borked game.

altemriel

are you sure that it is not caused by lag?

SodanTok

altemriel wrote: »

are you sure that it is not caused by lag?

It is not. Speaking of experience on bow the animations are just wrong. Sometimes you arent channeling heavy at all, sometimes you look like you do nothing and then suddenly heavy attack fires.
Lag does this too, but you always know its laggy (like in cyrodiil) and it affects just simple heavy attacking. This bug is more rare and does not happen if you do just heavy attacks, it happens usually when you try to heavy after casting skill or light attacking. Most notably when I am in my own lagless house doing something with dummy.

Kihamai

I've been having this issue as well. Also, it is definitely not lag.

It seems to occur more frequently with my lightning heavy attacks, but I have also noticed my inferno staves not working occasionally as well. I noticed it on Sentinel of Rkugamz when I was farming it the other day - my character would randomly stop channeling a lightning heavy attack when I was moving around. Maybe elevation, as Nullmagic said.

Actually, it seems staves (especially lightning staves) are pretty broken in general. There are many, many times where I have definitely light attacked a mob and it just goes through the mob even though it's tab targeted, or it just won't fire. The animation is there, the attack just doesn't work. Frequently my light or heavy attacks from lightning staves won't count for my Merciless Resolve proc either.

GreenhaloX

Ahh.. good to know others are experiencing same. I thought it was just me. Delayed action too. Surely occurring on all platforms. Hopefully ZOS and the dev take notice of this bug?

MyrddinEmrys

Same thing is happening to me now. Only after HotR update. Lightning HAs are not channeling properly and will just... stop... for no reason at all.

Nullmagic

MyrddinEmrys wrote: »

Same thing is happening to me now. Only after HotR update. Lightning HAs are not channeling properly and will just... stop... for no reason at all.

I've definitely found it worse after HoTR.

Wrecking_Gorilla

The issue started with restro staves a long time ago and has spread to the others. Incoming fix? No ETA lol