sneak attack changes?

Kikazaru

I have an overland pve gank build I had fun using, where i was capable of achieving high damage from stealth. I could even could take down some 120k+ health mobs in a couple seconds. But, now the sneak attack bonus doesn't seem to be there anymore after this patch.

My concealed weapon from sneak used to deal 58k+ or more, now it only does 23.2k damage.

My soul harvest from sneak used to deal 81k+ damage or more, now it only does 31k+ damage.

I checked the patch notes, but don't see anything about sneak damage. Is this intended? If so, RIP big hit splats, those were awesome to see.

BlueRaven

Was it a crit dependent build? Crit got nerfed.

Ippokrates

Also passive Grim Focus was changed.

Finedaible

If you were using Mechanical Acuity, it don got nerfed for ganks.

Vevvev

I found issues the other day even getting sneak attacks to go through. Enemies are surviving attacks they otherwise wouldn't when they do land, and no I'm not using a critical build. The only critical damage boost is in the one piece of medium armor, and my critical chance is around 32%.

Red_Feather

Wow another update breaks sneak attacks. I'm getting so tired of this.

Kikazaru

BlueRaven wrote: »

Was it a crit dependent build? Crit got nerfed.

Nope, because the bonus damage I was doing is from sneak. I hit 58k+ from sneak.

If i attack the mobs head on I only do normal crit damage. Like 21k. The crit damage out of stealth is relatively the same before and after the patch.

That’s how it worked last patch.

Maybe the crit damage cap changes might of altered how the sneak damage modifiers work in this game. Idk what’s up, now I’m doing normal damage as if i’m not sneaking at all.

I tried on my stamina nightblade with surprise attacks, the bonus damage isn’t there, too.

Anyone who ran a pve gank style build knows something has changed!

Red_Feather

It took them a long time to release an update last time to fix sneak attacks after an update broke them. Just get used to playing a live bugged broken game until they figure out how to make a stable live service.

master_vanargand

An alternative to that is green CP.
It's fun to be an assassin of green CP.

Vevvev

I just went about going out of my way to sneak attack various things, and while the target if they can be stunned will be stunned, the bonus damage against NPCs is not applying. For melee attacks it should be around three times the damage and one shot the average overland foe, but it no longer does that. I also sneak attacked a Haj Mota in Northern Elsweyr and it's health went down as much as a regular attack.

Kikazaru

Vevvev wrote: »

I just went about going out of my way to sneak attack various things, and while the target if they can be stunned will be stunned, the bonus damage against NPCs is not applying. For melee attacks it should be around three times the damage and one shot the average overland foe, but it no longer does that. I also sneak attacked a Haj Mota in Northern Elsweyr and it's health went down as much as a regular attack.

Yup, nailed exactly what I experienced; I hope this is a mistake and they revert it back to the way it was.

Sweeping a dungeon just isn't the same anymore.

Nup

I've just encountered this issue as well and raised a ticket.
Sneak attack bonus damage from stealth isn't applying across the board from what I can tell.
I only noticed it when I went to use surprise attack and it did pitiful damage, it normally 1 shots most enemies.
Stealth feels really underwhelming without the damage bonus