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Vampire "Undeath" passive

ipkonfigcub18_ESO
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Is this ability broken? Before and after I have noticed ZERO difference. Didn't have it for couple weeks, then got it to 2/2 and have been now for two weeks'ish. I notice ZERO difference with it. What a waste of skill points :/
  • Nox_Aeterna
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    Last i heard , not working.
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  • ipkonfigcub18_ESO
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    Last i heard , not working.

    Argh. It's like going to a used car dealer and buying a lemon :/

    Edited by ipkonfigcub18_ESO on May 14, 2014 10:43PM
  • Nox_Aeterna
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    Last i heard , not working.

    Argh. It's like going to a used car dealer and buying a lemon :/

    Yeah i also spent points on those passives :P.

    Bah , well i still use the drain life and the ult , i could do without those , but if im going to take 50% extra dmg to half the mobs , better i atleast use the skills im paying for lols.
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  • KracsNZ
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    Last i heard , not working.

    Argh. It's like going to a used car dealer and buying a lemon :/

    At least with the car you might be able to sell it for scrap :stuck_out_tongue:
  • ipkonfigcub18_ESO
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    Just FYI

    It is still not working in this patch. We honestly need to be refunded for that skill since they refuse to fix it.
  • Morbus2
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    Confirmed. It's not working, but that's pretty much par for the course with ZoS.

    At this point, why expect anything different?
  • dsalter
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    necro but any news?
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  • olsborg
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    Isnt it better to make a list of abilities that are working, and assume the rest isnt, that would be more fitting for TESO I think...?

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  • Natjur
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    The Vampire "Undeath" passive has never worked or done anything.
    The Vampire stealth speed passive works tho.
  • CaptainSilverbrow
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    Natjur wrote: »
    The Vampire "Undeath" passive has never worked or done anything.
    The Vampire stealth speed passive works tho.

    Yeah, when I'd gotten to that passive, I was SUPER stoked; I learned to read about dubious passives that are too good to be true. This is majorly out of hand. I've paid around two hundred dollars for this. I'm a Vamp, yeah, but guess my class, race, armor variant, and preferred weapon style? [nospoilersiknow]Templar, Argonian, Heavy Armor, and DW. I feel like a bloody masochist. Maybe I am one...[/nospoilersiknow].
  • Natjur
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    [nospoilersiknow]Templar, Argonian, Heavy Armor, and DW. I feel like a bloody masochist. Maybe I am one...[/nospoilersiknow].
    My main is an Argonian Templar, but Heavy Armor and DW.... WOW, you took the hard road. But now that vet zones are nerfed, any build is easy mode now.
    Edited by Natjur on July 8, 2014 3:01AM
  • Morbus2
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    dsalter wrote: »
    necro but any news?

    No news is the news. This passive has never worked properly.

    Good luck trying to get it fixed. . .

  • Reremnu
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    Each day I'm losing hope that this game will be 100% working. There are skills broken since early beta and they keep adding new bugs, I mean new content.
  • Stx
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    What the hell Zenimax? Isn't the sub fee there to make this a "quality" game? How can so many passives simply NOT WORK? Especially for so many months...

    It costs me 20k to respec, and I just wasted points on these useless passives, so frustrated right now.
  • DeLindsay
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    Undeath doesn't work for me either, that is as best I can tell, it's hard to test from what I understand from other threads about it. Just be happy if Unnatural Resistance works for you, it's never worked for me on any of my Vampires on either NA or EU. All have been stuck at 8 Health regen from as low as in the 20's to my highest at VR8, Vampire Stage has had no difference. If I put on the Lamae set (16 Health regen at a certain quality/level) I should get +10 Health regen for the -35% regen that passive reduces the penalty to. Instead I get 4 Health regen for the -75% everyone has without that passive at Stage 4.

    Supernatural Recovery and Dark Stalker are the only 2 passives that I find actually work, well besides the bite ofc. And to be fair I don't ever talent Savage Feeding so I can't comment on whether it works or not.
    Edited by DeLindsay on July 17, 2014 12:30AM
  • Twyst
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    DeLindsay wrote: »
    And to be fair I don't ever talent Savage Feeding so I can't comment on whether it works or not.

    Savage Feeding talent works for me :)
  • monkeymystic
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    It's pretty sad that its been this many months, and they still haven't fixed the passives yet.
  • Goibot
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    They should of fixed all passives before they started balanceing
  • Grim13
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    I'm a NB Vamp... I have soooo many broken passives that sometimes, just for *** and giggles, I'll repeatedly check my character screen to see how much variation I get in my values from minute to minute lol
  • Mondrely
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    I just picked up Unnatural Resistance last night and noticed it was not working either. There was no change in my health recovery after putting a point into that, at least not on my character sheet.
  • Tashira
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    Agree... As a matter of fact as of the last week and putting points in, I have seen it take longer to regen heatlh....
  • Teiji
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    This fixed yet?
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  • The_Conquerer
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    idk
  • Malvir
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    Sorry for necro, but there was no answer for this that I could find, so I tested it.

    Tested 8/23/2015, yes it works.

    Undeath works. It scales linearly from 0 to 33% based on health going from 50% down to 0 and applies that damage reduction based on your health level at the time of the hit. Shields do not affect this benefit.


    Testing details if you care....

    Easy to test: let a weak mob hit you over and over again. I used a bandit outside stormhaven. He hit consistently for 456 until I was below 50% health, then the damage ticks started to go down. At 7% health the hits were for 329 which is when I healed myself and it returned to 456.

    At 7% health the reduction was 28% damage reduction. That is within rounding error of theoretical 28.38% reduction that 7% should have (.84*33%).

    The scaling appears linear from 50% health down to 0 with the reduction ramping up the lower health you get. Near death it's 30%-ish. You probably won't ever get to 33%, you'd be dead to see that benefit. It also appears as though your health at the time of the hit is what determines the damage reduction. A big hit won't get prorated, so if you're hit above 50% health and it takes you below 50% (or death) then undeath won't count for that hit. I observed that by watching the hits and health percentages as it was happening.

    I also tested shields. If your health is low and you get shielded for a large amount, undeath still applies as long as your health is low. Verified with Blazing Shield at about 10% health. The hits were definitely mitigated on the shield by undeath.

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