LF Refund on Greaves (Not Working Properly)

fred4

Esoteric Environment Greaves do not appear to work properly.

Took them into vBRP solo, sitting at full stamina until archer hits me with Taking Aim. Bam! Full damage 30K+ and dead. By contrast, if I block with the greaves off, I take about 15K damage. My block mitigation, according to ZOS' own advanced stat sheet, is 53%, so should be very similar. My character is not a tank. She is running 2H, not 1H+S, and not running the Bracing Anchor CP.

Also, when you put them on you get this faint green mote floating around you. This disappears when your stamina drops, certainly once the stamina gets near zero. It never reappears after that. Is it supposed to indicate the set is active? I don't know. Anyway, just to be sure, I never let my stamina drop in the first place during testing.

Update #1: They do appear to work against an Alit in Vvardenfell. In other words they do something, but they don't work for all blockable damage.

Update #2: After further testing I suspect they do not work to mitigate any channeled PvE (boss) heavy attacks. I'm struggling to see a use for these in PvE. They appear to mitigate only minor direct damage that you can easily outheal, so what's the point?

El_Borracho

Here you go:

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/631927/esoteric-environment-greaves

Wonder if porting into BRP turned them off

tsaescishoeshiner

Sidenote, I wonder if some attacks are meant to be 1-shots unless you block specifically, so they bypass non-blocking damage mitigation? That's a question for tanks lol.

fred4

tsaescishoeshiner wrote: »

Sidenote, I wonder if some attacks are meant to be 1-shots unless you block specifically, so they bypass non-blocking damage mitigation? That's a question for tanks lol.

That thought had crossed my mind. One shots do exist, even when you're blocking, for example the vMA spider boss when you don't do the Hoarvor mechanic and you don't have the DPS to burn it before the one shot happens. I'm pretty sure that's a scripetd one shot. I'm pretty sure you must also use the NPC shield or bash the Argonian boss in the next round. Missing the shielding, and bashing, then kills most builds from subsequent enraged boss attacks, but those are not one shots. You can basically just brawl through them, e.g. with Brawler shield, when you have a tanky enough build. Indeed Arcanist tanking seems focused on less blocking and more shielding and I'm pretty sure I've outshielded and outhealed the Taking Aim archers in vBRP on my sorc.