Is there anybody have experience falling from cliff by the bow scribing skill animation?

AvalonRanger · October 6

Is there anybody have experience falling from cliff by the bow scribing skill animation?

If we do such kind of huge back step at the FrostVault last boss, then we're dead.

More over, most of scribing skill combat animation is too much redundant.
It's bit hilarious and not convenient in the actual combat.

barney2525 · October 6

I try not to have too much experience falling off cliffs.

CP5 · October 6

The skill will simply not fire if it doesn't find a spot for you to land. If you would fall off a ledge with no floor, it won't cast. In some areas, if your backflip would have you land on stairs (some of the rooms in IA are like this) then it won't fire. It aggressively won't trigger if it would cause you an issue, leaving it simply not casting instead.

LalMirchi · October 6

While curiosity did probably kill the cat, I find curiosity to be the most entertaining of my personal traits.

Derisively laughing as I first read the description of this bow scribing Vault skill my curiosity has now edged past my scepticism. Knowing that I won't unadventenly fall into oblivion is certainly heartening, thanks @CP5

I will scribe and test this bow scribing Vault skill today.

AvalonRanger · October 6

CP5 wrote: »

The skill will simply not fire if it doesn't find a spot for you to land....

That means we can't fire bow scribing ability at the narrow space?
Then, bow scribing ability depends on level design issue. Is it right?

Well......

Extremely weird game design.

Paulytnz · October 7

CP5 wrote: »

The skill will simply not fire if it doesn't find a spot for you to land. If you would fall off a ledge with no floor, it won't cast. In some areas, if your backflip would have you land on stairs (some of the rooms in IA are like this) then it won't fire. It aggressively won't trigger if it would cause you an issue, leaving it simply not casting instead.

So, this explains why my skill wouldn't fire 10 times in a row when I tried using it at a world boss for the last event (which killed me a few times because I have it as a heal and HOT). They should have fired tho, since most world bosses are in big open spaces where you can walk back quite a distance.

I thought scribing skills must just cast a lot slower since the game added them later - you know search the database for animations/effects etc. Guess not.

It SHOULD still fire, just not move you back if you can't or if the game thinks you can't. Otherwise, it's a pointless skill. I had to stop using it and change it out.

Monte_Cristo · October 7

If it's like the old bow skill that knocked you back when you fired it, be careful using it near delve doors. I got knocked into the realm between delve and overworld once that way. The toon was stuck for a couple of days, always falling until it booted me from the server and had to relog just to do it again. Eventually spammed roll as soon as I loaded and was able to get out.

CP5 · October 12

AvalonRanger wrote: »

CP5 wrote: »

The skill will simply not fire if it doesn't find a spot for you to land....

That means we can't fire bow scribing ability at the narrow space?
Then, bow scribing ability depends on level design issue. Is it right?

Well...... Extremely weird game design.

A bit of a late reply, but yes, the level design 100% determines how useful the skill is. In the archive some of the rooms have small stairs or metal trim that goes through the floor, and if you would land on those spots the skill won't fire because those surfaces aren't valid landing locations, apparently. I assume, having been a fan of the old magnum shot, that they wanted to ensure that nothing odd would ever happen with people getting out of bounds or into other odd situations, so the solution was to take a hammer to the skill and ensure it only fired when a 'valid solution' was possible.

What's funny is in Oathsworn Pit, in the final boss's arena, I was jumping between the bridges that lead to the iron atronach after the boss fight, you can jump between the bridges, but if your landing location is one of the pillars between the bridges those count as valid landing locations, but you instantly die if you enter that area, so the safeguard doesn't always work.