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Werewolf Brutal Pounce/Brutal Carnage Bug Diagnosis
Platform: Steam
Megaserver: US
Since the release of Greymoor last May, the werewolf Brutal Pounce would frequently darken on Brutal Carnage and stop working altogether completely disabling the Brutal Pounce and seriously reducing the ability to do any meaningful DPS. Having seen no feedback from ZOS on how and when they would fix it, I took it upon myself to try and pin down how and why Brutal Pounce would break.
From my own personal experience, I noticed that my Brutal Pounce would not break when I was going solo. So that led me to think that it must be some sort of group interaction. I grouped with a friend and started repeatedly doing nothing but Brutal Pounce/Brutal Carnage while the friend I was grouped with did only one thing repeatedly to see if we could isolate what might be causing the Brutal Pounce to break, such as doing ice staff heavy attacks and staff abilities, various other weapon skills, and class abilities. He would do only one of these repeatedly for a minute or two while I pounced. I should add that we avoided using the Iron Atronach trial dummy as it lays down synergies and other effects that would contaminate the tests.
We made a breakthrough when he used Spiked Bone Shield IV from Undaunted Skill Line. When the Bone Wall synergy appeared under me (without me even using it), my Brutal Pounce broke right after I did Brutal Carnage after a couple tries. We stopped and I took the Brutal Pounce off my skill bar and and put it back on, and then tried it again, and the Brutal Pounce broke again with Bone Wall synergy after a few pounces. THIS GLITCH IS REPEATABLE. THE BRUTAL POUNCE BROKE WITH THE BONE WALL SYNERGY EVERY TIME.
The video below shows 5 clips in a row where we broke Brutal Pounce with the Bone Wall synergy after a few pounces. I have submitted this video to ZOS detailing how we triggered Brutal Pounce to break:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkRUfBzlYyA
Now, we did not try every synergy, weapon ability, etc. out there. So there could be other triggers that might break Brutal Pounce, but I hope that the more of us who do these Process of Elimination tests, the sooner this very annoying glitch can be fixed.
To the ZOS team, I have now given you something concrete to go on! Please fix this issue once and for all.
Edited by michelmephit on January 14, 2021 10:49PM Megaserver: US
Since the release of Greymoor last May, the werewolf Brutal Pounce would frequently darken on Brutal Carnage and stop working altogether completely disabling the Brutal Pounce and seriously reducing the ability to do any meaningful DPS. Having seen no feedback from ZOS on how and when they would fix it, I took it upon myself to try and pin down how and why Brutal Pounce would break.
From my own personal experience, I noticed that my Brutal Pounce would not break when I was going solo. So that led me to think that it must be some sort of group interaction. I grouped with a friend and started repeatedly doing nothing but Brutal Pounce/Brutal Carnage while the friend I was grouped with did only one thing repeatedly to see if we could isolate what might be causing the Brutal Pounce to break, such as doing ice staff heavy attacks and staff abilities, various other weapon skills, and class abilities. He would do only one of these repeatedly for a minute or two while I pounced. I should add that we avoided using the Iron Atronach trial dummy as it lays down synergies and other effects that would contaminate the tests.
We made a breakthrough when he used Spiked Bone Shield IV from Undaunted Skill Line. When the Bone Wall synergy appeared under me (without me even using it), my Brutal Pounce broke right after I did Brutal Carnage after a couple tries. We stopped and I took the Brutal Pounce off my skill bar and and put it back on, and then tried it again, and the Brutal Pounce broke again with Bone Wall synergy after a few pounces. THIS GLITCH IS REPEATABLE. THE BRUTAL POUNCE BROKE WITH THE BONE WALL SYNERGY EVERY TIME.
The video below shows 5 clips in a row where we broke Brutal Pounce with the Bone Wall synergy after a few pounces. I have submitted this video to ZOS detailing how we triggered Brutal Pounce to break:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkRUfBzlYyANow, we did not try every synergy, weapon ability, etc. out there. So there could be other triggers that might break Brutal Pounce, but I hope that the more of us who do these Process of Elimination tests, the sooner this very annoying glitch can be fixed.
To the ZOS team, I have now given you something concrete to go on! Please fix this issue once and for all.
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