Engulfing Flames

Celestially

Please look into this skill, in combat the ability often times does not go off when you use the skill, additionally when it does go off it tends to miss the target. Engulfing flames needs a lil love for sure.

GetAgrippa

I play a lot of magdk and this is what I've noticed. When I'm moving in a specific forward diagonal direction, the skill simply will not fire. It will then fire, quite delayed, if I either stop moving in any direction or change my movement to be directly forward. This has been an issue for what feels like a year now. I've learned to deal with it for the most part but it's still a huge bug on the skill. I've subsequently noticed similar issues with the warden fungus heal, and a friend of mine has noticed it with the resto burst heal skill. What these skills all have in common, even though 1 is damage and 2 are heals, is they're burst aoes. So I don't know what zos has to do to fix that. Hell, I haven't even seen them acknowledge it's a problem. I haven't seen others mention the burst heal skills not firing, but you're certainly not the first person to mention that engulfing is having an issue.

Celestially

GetAgrippa wrote: »

I play a lot of magdk and this is what I've noticed. When I'm moving in a specific forward diagonal direction, the skill simply will not fire. It will then fire, quite delayed, if I either stop moving in any direction or change my movement to be directly forward. This has been an issue for what feels like a year now. I've learned to deal with it for the most part but it's still a huge bug on the skill. I've subsequently noticed similar issues with the warden fungus heal, and a friend of mine has noticed it with the resto burst heal skill. What these skills all have in common, even though 1 is damage and 2 are heals, is they're burst aoes. So I don't know what zos has to do to fix that. Hell, I haven't even seen them acknowledge it's a problem. I haven't seen others mention the burst heal skills not firing, but you're certainly not the first person to mention that engulfing is having an issue.

Thank you for replying I hope they get around to fixing it, I’m not sure what they can do about the burst heals but as for engulfing a suggestion on reworking the skill could perhaps be to make the ability only castable when in range of your target, and when it goes off it hits the person you are targeted to and others within a close distance of the initial target. If they can’t do that maybe just making it cost like 300 less magic would help that way if we need to cast the ability 2/3 times we save 600-900 magic

Vevvev

Always felt like the ability will not fire if it'd hit something in the cone, and then cast normally when it'd hit nothing, but that could very well be a placebo effect. Sometimes I'd just stop moving all together in order to cast it in lag, but I have this problem with other abilities as well when the lag gets that bad. Seems to effect other cone type abilities like Mesmerize with them not casting like they should.

Elo106

It looks like a location desync between client and server, sometimes I hit a target dead on with the flames on cast, while not moving, and it doesnt "hit" them.

I moved to use it after a Stun or Talons to make sure it hits.

Vilixiti

Sometimes I'll hit engulfing flames four times in a row and it just refuses to go off. It's also very misleading about the area that it affected as the animation is long and moves with your character. I'm convinced the skill doesn't have the range/cone/area that it claims it does. It's super unreliable and annoying to use.

MrMazurski

Celestially wrote: »

Please look into this skill, in combat the ability often times does not go off when you use the skill, additionally when it does go off it tends to miss the target. Engulfing flames needs a lil love for sure.

Yep, its broken sometimes.

Syrpynt

Side note:

Controller players have this interesting quirk with conal attacks and ranged light attacks.

If you are walking forward, let's call that 0°.
Now left and right are 90°.

If you push your movement joystick at 0° to 15° either left or right while aiming, your conal attack will still point at this slight angle, despite targeting forward with your camera (0°). It's as if your character isn't quite strafing, but moving their facing direction enough that it affects targeting. Your attack will miss your target completely. This also happens to light attacks with bow/staves.

Abilities affected are Engulfing flames, arrow barrage, etc.

It's EXTREMELY annoying in PvP. Giving Keyboard and mouse an advantage simply because WASD.

El_Borracho

Yep. Noticed this even during dummy parses to where you have to hit the button 2-3 times to make it fire