NB - remove the wind up on ambush

silky_soft

Remove the wind up at the start ambush animation to be more in line with other gap closes/teleports. Maybe it would actually land in pvp.

Chilly-McFreeze

silky_soft wrote: »

Remove the wind up at the start ambush animation to be more in line with other gap closes/teleports. Maybe it would actually land in pvp.

More often I think it just doesn't work on vertical elevations. But yours would be a nice boni too.

Mayrael

Totally agree, its completly useless in terms of closing the gap, it's useless to chase someone.

Strider__Roshin

Nothing says fast combat like a cast time on your gap closer, your ultimate, and your spectral bow. The class feels like you're playing on dialup.

Narvuntien

Keep in mind I play PVP on 300 ping so it's even worse for me. Basically never gap closes because the target is out of range by the time the animation is complete.

I even swapped to crit charge for a bit just so I could close gaps.

YandereGirlfriend

Yes, please.

This skill (and Lotus Fan) are borderline unusable in Cyrodiil.

IAmIcehouse

What probably what irritates me most in this game is Lotus Fan. It's so unreliable. You can cast lotus fan, not move at all, and still proc sets like acuity, and go on cool down.

Casting lotus fan in OW, you have a 30% chance that you're actually going to travel. I attribute this skill to the gradual loss of my hair.

Vizirith

But is the overall time any longer than any other gap closer? Crit rush and toppling charge have more travel time where ambush doesn't. So the whole animation time is still the same. If you remove the "wind-up" then crit rush and all the other gap closers also have to be sped up alot too, borderline instant.

IAmIcehouse

Vizirith wrote: »

But is the overall time any longer than any other gap closer? Crit rush and toppling charge have more travel time where ambush doesn't. So the whole animation time is still the same. If you remove the "wind-up" then crit rush and all the other gap closers also have to be sped up alot too, borderline instant.

Whatever they can do to make it actually work

SHOW

Vizirith wrote: »

But is the overall time any longer than any other gap closer? Crit rush and toppling charge have more travel time where ambush doesn't. So the whole animation time is still the same. If you remove the "wind-up" then crit rush and all the other gap closers also have to be sped up alot too, borderline instant.

Things don't always have to be exactly the same, they should instead have different pros vs cons, so we have choices.

Right now, the only difference is that the NightBlade gap closer doesn't work in many scenarios that the others do lol

I can topple charge up to a 2nd floor window, no prob, but the one "teleport" gap closer in the game fails when there is a pebble between us lol

sad face.

Chilly-McFreeze

SHOW wrote: »

Vizirith wrote: »

But is the overall time any longer than any other gap closer? Crit rush and toppling charge have more travel time where ambush doesn't. So the whole animation time is still the same. If you remove the "wind-up" then crit rush and all the other gap closers also have to be sped up alot too, borderline instant.

Things don't always have to be exactly the same, they should instead have different pros vs cons, so we have choices.

This isn't how ZOS operates anymore. All that nonsense about power budget this, spreadsheat balance that, totally ignores the needs and advantages of different classes. Does a low mobility DoT class need the same power budget on their DoTs as everyone else? Does the ultra agile assassin class needs the exact same potential on it's gap closer as the generic tank weapon gap closer? But what am I moaning again...

oXI_Viper_IXo

Yep, this is extremely frustrating. This game has gone from fast paced and fun to clunky and awkward (nightblade in particular).

kalunte

meanwhile, stampede dmg got buffed by 25% on base hit +127% on dot, is aoe and very instant...

spotzhopz

kalunte wrote: »

meanwhile, stampede dmg got buffed by 25% on base hit +127% on dot, is aoe and very instant...

Yeah ill probably just be swappin to stampede this next patch. Already had ambush on my 2H bar anyways, so i might as well use a skill that actually works

the1andonlyskwex

Vizirith wrote: »

But is the overall time any longer than any other gap closer? Crit rush and toppling charge have more travel time where ambush doesn't. So the whole animation time is still the same. If you remove the "wind-up" then crit rush and all the other gap closers also have to be sped up alot too, borderline instant.

To me, the only gap closer that feels notably slow compared to the others is Empowering Chains.

Milli_Rabbit

I haven't had issues with it. It may be the animation lags behind where you actually are. I generally press the button and immediately move on to light attack, ability and chase. The animation completes around the time my light attack goes off which suggests to me Ive already moved but the animation makes it look like I haven't.