Nightblade Skills - late firing (solved!)

MajorDavood

Update: It turns out that when weapons are sheathed, there's a tiny delay before skills fire. Running or stealthing with weapons out eliminates the delay. Thanks to Biro123 for the resolution.

Hi Forum, Since today's patch, it seems like Nightblade skills aren't firing as fast as before. For example, when I'm running through a delve and pop shadowy disguise, it can take up to 1.5-2secs to fire the first time. Given that I'm usually sneaking past a mob, this has thrown off my timing. It almost appears that I have to stop, pop shadowy disguise, then start running again. (this is new behavior - didn't happen pre-patch)

Ambush also doesn't fire as fast as before. It appears that I can't launch Ambush until my weapons are unsheathed? You can actually see my NB pull out his weaps THEN launch Ambush. Am seeing the same delay as with Shadowy Disguise.

This is for a PvE nightblade and not a PvP gankblade.

Has anyone else noticed any changes in the Nightblade skill tree? I concede this might be operator error and could use a second opinion. Thank you!

MajorDavood

Someone suggested I post relevant skills/gear:
5 x Night's Silence med armor

CP Green Tree:
Fleet Phantom - reduce movement speed sneak penalty by 25%
Out of Sight - reduce sneak detection radius by 3meters
Sustaining Shadows - reduce cost of sneak by 50%
Steed's Blessing- increase out of combat movement speed by 20%

and using wild hunt ring

Biro123

I've noticed this too - its when weapons aren't drawn, it takes aged for them to do so before the skill fires..

I don't think its NB skills only - I see it a lot with Race against time when just running along.

I'm using wild-hunt too - aside from that, nothing common in gear

MajorDavood

Biro123 wrote: »

I've noticed this too - its when weapons aren't drawn, it takes aged for them to do so before the skill fires..

I don't think its NB skills only - I see it a lot with Race against time when just running along.

I'm using wild-hunt too - aside from that, nothing common in gear

Thank you for the additional info!

I'm told that Nightblade skills can no longer be cast while running which might also explain this behavior. It appears (unconfirmed) that this change was implemented with the most recent patch.

Not a game-breaker, I think, but it does slow things down a tad. I'll try running with weaps out full-time and see if things improve. Thanks again.

Biro123

MajorDavood wrote: »

Not a game-breaker, I think, but it does slow things down a tad. I'll try running with weaps out full-time and see if things improve. Thanks again.

Dunno - could be fairly impactful in PVP if it stalls your time to react.

RealLoveBVB

I am a bit surprised, that this is the only topic to this regard. We noticed this too and it's the most annoying change from the latest patch.

If you haven't your weapons up, then the first used spell is delayed- which is deadly in some situations.

Imagine riding around in PvP, being attacked. You need to mount off, draw your weapons and then you can cast your healing spell.

In dungeons- everytime you open a chest or a door, it will automatically put your weapon away. So you have to get them up all time again.

Welp, welcome to a roleplaygame, where you can't cast stuff before your weapons are up

Bergzorn

This is very annoying. Please revert.

ZOS_Bill

As the OP has figured out the reason for the firing delay, we are now going to close out this discussion.