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The Eternal Guardian Ultimate For Warden Is Bad
Panda_iMunch
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Just for some background: Eternal Guardian is the magicka morph of the animal companions ult. It's SUPPOSED to re-summon the bear after it dies INSTANTLY.
This is where the issue is. The bear dose not re-spawn instantly, it just forces you to cast the ult. So in a way, the ult is just a bad macro key (which is banned in the ToS ironically enough).
Where this becomes a problem is when you are in the middle of anything. For example, my healer died and I had to do some healing while the actual healer was dead. However, my bear died and I was instantly forced to hard cast the ult, which takes FOREVER. In the mean time, the other dps died to a DoT and the tank to something else stupid. Effectively, the morph caused my group to wipe, even though I could recover.
Note: We acutally couldn't rez the healer as it bugged out and never allowed me to rez. Great work ZoS.
My recommendation: Make the morph do what it says and instantly bring the bear back to life when not on cool-down.
How did this even get past testing? lol
Edited by Panda_iMunch on February 18, 2018 9:58PM This is where the issue is. The bear dose not re-spawn instantly, it just forces you to cast the ult. So in a way, the ult is just a bad macro key (which is banned in the ToS ironically enough).
Where this becomes a problem is when you are in the middle of anything. For example, my healer died and I had to do some healing while the actual healer was dead. However, my bear died and I was instantly forced to hard cast the ult, which takes FOREVER. In the mean time, the other dps died to a DoT and the tank to something else stupid. Effectively, the morph caused my group to wipe, even though I could recover.
Note: We acutally couldn't rez the healer as it bugged out and never allowed me to rez. Great work ZoS.
My recommendation: Make the morph do what it says and instantly bring the bear back to life when not on cool-down.
How did this even get past testing? lol
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✭✭✭✭✭You can cancel the (re)summoning of the Bear by pressing block. You're not forced to automatically cast it again."We're all born under the same sky and on the same earth. Therefore, we all deserve the same amount of respect."
Tryxus of the Undying Song - Warden - PC/EU0 -
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✭✭✭✭✭It would be nice to actually auto reply summon... I mean it just would be.
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Panda_iMunch✭✭✭✭You can cancel the (re)summoning of the Bear by pressing block. You're not forced to automatically cast it again.
True, and I often do. However, this is in the middle of combat and I have to cancel hard casting my ult. Not always the best thing to do when you have to do some critical roles.
This also doesn't change the fact the ult doesn't do what it's set out to do; be a convenience.Waffennacht wrote: »It would be nice to actually auto reply summon... I mean it just would be.
I think it's a PvP balance thing
I could see it being a pvp thing, but even then there is better ways to handle it. When time matters, I don't wanna sit there and have to manage my ult so that it doesn't lock up my rotation lol
If they made it cost 100 ult while instantly summoning, or changing it outright, then I would be okay with it. It's just an inconvenience where it is and it's the only choice for a magicka bear ult right now (unless you don't morph, but then you take a dps loss).0 -
Panda_iMunch✭✭✭✭Like AI of the pets wasnt bad enough we're dealing with bad design choices as well. ZOS its time to improve the AI of your devs
While the pet AI is rudimentary at best, the design choice was likely a server impact choice. The slower the action, the less impact it has. Makes sense in PvP, where server issues are common. In PvE, not so much. Even then, the impact would be minuet.
Could also be a time thing. Might take longer to put in a feature like that, but I'm not a dev.Edited by Panda_iMunch on February 19, 2018 2:07AM0 -
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✭✭✭✭✭Yup, it's a very annoying bug. I don't think ZOS intended Eternal Guardian to work this way..... but then again the next major patch (where ZOS rebalances/bug fixes stuff) will be Q2 2018. It'll take at least 1 year since the launch of the Warden for them to maybe fix this bug.
Disappointed to say the least in how ZOS left Warden buggy and imbalanced after launch. Hopefully with the Dive nerf they'll begin to look over the DPS-side of Warden more and maybe actually care enough to fix this too.1 -
Panda_iMunch✭✭✭✭Yup, it's a very annoying bug. I don't think ZOS intended Eternal Guardian to work this way..... but then again the next major patch (where ZOS rebalances/bug fixes stuff) will be Q2 2018. It'll take at least 1 year since the launch of the Warden for them to maybe fix this bug.
Disappointed to say the least in how ZOS left Warden buggy and imbalanced after launch. Hopefully with the Dive nerf they'll begin to look over the DPS-side of Warden more and maybe actually care enough to fix this too.
Another bug I just noticed on stream is that when the bear dies while rezzing someone, the rez will bug out and be forever incomplete. This means you can't rez that person again and I get a nice circle over my redicle until I log out.1
