Necromancer skill Ricochet Skull (morph of Flame Skull) breaks during combat

SPlDER5

Ricochet Skull, the morph of Flame Skull, breaks regularly during combat, and no longer stack toward the bonus damage of the third cast.

https://www.xbox.com/play/media/m8wccbnvuq

About 1 minute into this clip, after the third kill, the skill breaks. When it’s in this broken state it no longer gets highlighted, no longer gets the 50% bonus damage, no longer bounces to other targets, and longer benefits from Gravelords Sacrifice AoE. Additionally, the animation breaks and gets stuck being cast from the right hand (as opposed to right, left, both hands) and it no longer gets highlighted on your bar.

This happened VERY regularly, and the only way to fix this issue is to die, log off, or change zones (which you cannot easily do in cyrodiil, especially if there’s a queue).

I have observed this happen in duels, battlegrounds and Cyrodiil, I have never observed this bug happen in pve.

I play on Xbox Series X on NA and EU, bug occurs on both servers.

Edit: I found a bug report on the forums https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/478349/ricochet-skull-bug here about THIS SAME BUG from 2019, so I guess it’s not going to get fixed.

SPlDER5

@ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_Icy would be nice to get some reassurance that this is being worked on after finding a forum post and bug report from 2019 about the exact same issue that hasn’t been resolved for 5 years. Especially now that the direction the combat team has taken with Magicka Necromancer is to encourage the use of Skulls by changing Stalking Blastbones to Gravelords Sacrifice.

SPlDER5

@ZOS_Kevin

danko355

I think it’s better to forget about it and move forward. Necromancer has tons of bugs, none of them has been addressed for years. And if it was addressed, they just made it worse (Blastbones nerf). They don’t like necromancer and won’t do anything about the class to make it better.

SPlDER5

@danko355 pushing Skulls for Necro was ZoS’ idea in u41, surely they must have someone working on the combat team who cares if it works or not?

SPlDER5

@ZOS_Icy hello, you closed the other thread about this 5 year old bug, stating “it’s better to make a new thread” but there’s been no green text reply here yet, could you possibly tell me if this is being looked at? This bug renders two whole necromancer abilities unusable in combat, so you can understand the frustration.

IncultaWolf

danko355 wrote: »

I think it’s better to forget about it and move forward. Necromancer has tons of bugs, none of them has been addressed for years. And if it was addressed, they just made it worse (Blastbones nerf). They don’t like necromancer and won’t do anything about the class to make it better.

I'm actually starting to believe this now

SPlDER5

IncultaWolf wrote: »

danko355 wrote: »

I think it’s better to forget about it and move forward. Necromancer has tons of bugs, none of them has been addressed for years. And if it was addressed, they just made it worse (Blastbones nerf). They don’t like necromancer and won’t do anything about the class to make it better.

I'm actually starting to believe this now

I’ve given up. I’ve reported this ingame, on forum, got my friends to report it, on Twitter/X, in chat during Q&As multiple times over the years and my conclusion is it’s being ignored.

Why is it being ignored? I don’t know, but it’s the only logical explanation. Just going to play a different class.

CameraBeardThePirate

@ZOS_Kevin Broken since 2019. Necro is a hot mess and nothing is even being addressed by the devs