Are the Ultimates going to be fixed?

idk

Every Ultimate seems to have a huge weakness in that there is a mechanic (I assume broken mechanic) that takes eliminates all ultimate points that have been built up. I did a search for ultimate on this forum and nothing came up, cut I expect more than myself and the few people I know in game have experienced having their ultimate points built up to end up being back to zero. I expect that if this is a game wide issue that the devs would find it unacceptable and have it a priority to fix.

Has anyone else experienced this? I expect it is when we travel through shrines and phase in to areas this is happening, seems so.

BenjaminKacher_ESO

Try not pressing R randomly while wandering around.

Arsenic_Touch

BenjaminKacher_ESO wrote: »

Try not pressing R randomly while wandering around.

Has nothing to do with it but thanks for chiming in with an unproductive post.

@OP, yes, happens quite often.
Here's a previous discussion thread on it.
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/84607/ultimate-keeps-reseting-to-0-at-random-times
It happened during the beta testing, at least when I was testing it in september and onward.

Ichikai

AFAIK it resets after about 5 minutes of being in-game without going into combat.

idk

BenjaminKacher_ESO wrote: »

Try not pressing R randomly while wandering around.

Wish that was the case, but we are talking about it happening to multiple people I know and most of my ults require two steps for them to execute so not that simple.

idk

Arsenic_Touch wrote: »

@OP, yes, happens quite often.
Here's a previous discussion thread on it.
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/84607/ultimate-keeps-reseting-to-0-at-random-times
It happened during the beta testing, at least when I was testing it in september and onward.

Thanks for the thread link. I did a search, but the search function for this forum seems extremely limited.

tordr86b16_ESO

never happened to me, you probably hit R on your travles....

Rapscallion74

Happened to me all the time. Drove me crazy.

There have been other threads about it.

Here is a thread with a video of it in action

forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/68553/ultimate-points-resetting-to-zero/p1


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4C5rlvQukw

snigernissen

tordr86b16_ESO wrote: »

never happened to me, you probably hit R on your travles....

mhmm.. cause you can hit it and use it up when its not even full to right, oh and all the rest of the people complaining about this are randomly getting spastic moves and hits R to on their travels across tamriel to right, and there was also so many beta players that was having illusions of grandeur when they reported the same issue in the beta to right, and you really did read the rest of the posts before posting you idiotism in this thread right, right ???

kmorganlfcb16_ESO

tordr86b16_ESO wrote: »

never happened to me, you probably hit R on your travles....

Ah ok. So I must be accidentally pressing R then accidentally placing the ground targeting marker on the ground, and then failing to notice this huge atronarch appear. Wow, I wish I had your insight . :P Or maybe when I'm on my NB I fail to notice the whole world turn red.

I'd concede that these things may have bypassed my observation skills once or twice given an enormously generous amount of benefit to doubt, of course. But they didn't. That would be absurd.

darkkterror_ESO

Ultimate points do reset themselves and no, it isn't because people are accidentally pressing R. I have Werewolf form as my ultimate. I'm pretty sure I'd notice if I accidentally gimped myself by transforming into a Werewolf.

Glurin

Yeah, I think I would notice if I accidentally transformed into a werewolf in my travels. It's not exactly something easily missed.

epoling

I know I was having problems with the Ultimate ability seeming to reset randomly. I discovered I was reflexively hitting "R" every time I hit "E". Once I became conscious of what I was doing I stopped seeing it.

idk

There is a timer that resets ultimates to 0 after a period of no combat. Unfortunately there are some quests where we run around with no need for combat until the end and we do not have our ultimate available for the quest boss at the end. Basically, the group that chose how long to set the timer for did not work on actual quest content to understand how the timer should be set.

Yenu

Couldn't we just have the ultimate slowly bleed away if you aren't engaged in combat, instead of this all or nothing, sudden reset mechanic?
That way it'd be a lot easier to gauge where the ultimate charge is at any given moment...

idk

Yenu wrote: »

Couldn't we just have the ultimate slowly bleed away if you aren't engaged in combat, instead of this all or nothing, sudden reset mechanic?
That way it'd be a lot easier to gauge where the ultimate charge is at any given moment...

That is one possible solution, but as with many things I think the Devs are pleased with the design and implementation. That is where I think many of the issues we face stand.