Shade Bugs, Explanations?

raasdal

Just took out my NB for a spin, and boi all the QQ on shade bugs are not unjustified. That skill is just so broken.

Any way, i reas somewhere in a Zos patchnote that it was related to LoS and going out of range and then back in range of the Shade.

Has anyone figured out how to AVOID the situation where you have the golden thing on yor skill to indicate that you can port, and then when you use the skill, nothing happens. You make the pory animation, but stay in the same place and you dont summon a new shade?

If i knew i could never go out of range and back in range, i would just avoid that. Or if i could not loose los with it etc.

Rianai

I have tested it a little bit and couldn't find a pattern. It seems completely random and i'm pretty sure it has nothing to do with LoS or going out of range and then back in. I can place the shadow on flat ground, move a few meters away from it and the port might fail.
The weird thing is, after the latest "fix" it worked almost always for me, but over the course of the weeks it became worse and worse, so i finally had to drop the skill again, because it is not working for like half of the time.

Datthaw

Yeah this skill has been broken forever and it's infuriating. From what I think, it's only broken when there is alot of people around you. Cyro it almost never works, but out of cyro in duels it tends to work pretty well. However some of the dueling events I go to get pretty big and I have had it bug once alot of people are around.

Anyway zos is dumb and can't fix the actual problem, it's like they don't even acknowledge that it's still broken. last time the said they "fixed" it but they only fixed the bug when you were out of los or out of range and never even mentioned the skill breaking no casts.

Might as well slot elusive mist and use it to los then cloak at this point. No more shade ninja.