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[ZOS] Bow attacks & abilities not displaying damage properly on enemy health bars. Please fix.

  • Palidon
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    Magnum Shot is completely broken with new patch. Some times the knockback works on the player and other times it does not. There is never a knockback on enemies or any disorientation at all. Was working just fine prior to the new patch. Just another Nightblade ability skill down the tubes. ESO is completely destroying the Nightblade skill line. The bow was my backup and now it is completely useless.
  • Maulkin
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    Palidon wrote: »
    Magnum Shot is completely broken with new patch. Some times the knockback works on the player and other times it does not. There is never a knockback on enemies or any disorientation at all. Was working just fine prior to the new patch. Just another Nightblade ability skill down the tubes. ESO is completely destroying the Nightblade skill line. The bow was my backup and now it is completely useless.

    Newsflash: Magnum Shot is in the Bow skill line, not the NB skill line.

    It's a bug bear of mine when people equate weapon skills to class skills. Many classes use Bow as their ranged weapon.

    Any skill not working as intended is very annoying, just don't make it about your class or some sort of vendetta against you. Otherwise, I fully sympathise with your predicament
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  • kieso
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    Saw this guy last night fighting a mob with a bow; it went from full Hp to falling over dead..I was like da fuuuq?! :wtf:
  • Nestor
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    Heck, I was shooting arrows with my Sword and Shield, and swinging my Bow at mobs while blocking with my arrows last night. If you grouped with me in Elden Root you would have seen it.
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  • Runefell
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    Something interesting, I saw. If you try to kill rats or small critters, there will be a delay. You shoot, and about four to five seconds later, the rats will squeak and die. So there's definitely a delay.
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  • vyndral13preub18_ESO
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    Nestor wrote: »
    Heck, I was shooting arrows with my Sword and Shield, and swinging my Bow at mobs while blocking with my arrows last night. If you grouped with me in Elden Root you would have seen it.

    Maybe maybe not. I have come to discover, since i sit right next to my gf when we play together, that around 90% of the graphical errors i have are localized to just me.

    But we didn't play last night and it was pretty messed up, so who knows!
  • Strakand
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    Palidon wrote: »
    Magnum Shot is completely broken with new patch. Some times the knockback works on the player and other times it does not. There is never a knockback on enemies or any disorientation at all. Was working just fine prior to the new patch. Just another Nightblade ability skill down the tubes. ESO is completely destroying the Nightblade skill line. The bow was my backup and now it is completely useless.

    Newsflash: Magnum Shot is in the Bow skill line, not the NB skill line.

    It's a bug bear of mine when people equate weapon skills to class skills. Many classes use Bow as their ranged weapon.

    Any skill not working as intended is very annoying, just don't make it about your class or some sort of vendetta against you. Otherwise, I fully sympathise with your predicament


    LOL I was about to say the same thing. I had no idea that Bow Skills were part of the NB skill line... LOL

    While abilities not working properly is not ideal it is completely foolish to not even know where the ability skill line comes from.

    Side note: NBs are ridiculously powerful.
  • tspecherb14_ESO
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    Having bow issues as well. Shots not working, animation lag, whatever it is. Bombard snare has not been taking hold so multiple mobs getting in and ripping to shreds. Draining shot not knocking mobs back (or doing so late) and snare not taking hold. Pretty tough to function as an archer if you cannot keep foes off of you. Did not have this problem pre-update.
  • SahrotRein
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    I can confirm now that the bow really won't work if the arrow is invisible on the bow, however, if it becomes visible, either while aiming or just idle stand, the damage will display itself
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  • RSram
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    I don't understand how they keep breaking stuff; don't they understand what object oriented programming is? They must be using spaghetti code.
  • Araflin
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    Yesterday I experienced repeated occurrences of this as I used a bow. Re-logging appeared to clear it for a while but it did return. Today, however, not one instance of it. I was disconcerted as to why and tried several combinations of abilities and situations to recreate the problem but could not.
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  • Reiterpallasch
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    http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/124067/known-issues-for-update-3/p1
    • There have been reports of various issues relating to bows, including the health bar desyncing.
    • STATUS: Potentially fixed in patch v1.3.4

    Read as: We know it is broken. We might fix it eventually. In the meantime, perhaps you would like to try using a destro staff instead?
    Edited by Reiterpallasch on August 10, 2014 1:59AM
  • kijima
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    I have bow as my primary and in both PvE and PvP I end up getting the no damage recorded until they drop bug.

    Unfortunately, with either primary or secondary slotted for bow, it'll happen. :/
    Been here since Feb 2014 - You'd think I'd be half reasonable at this game by now...
  • Selodaoc
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    kijima wrote: »
    It's not bow, other weapons are doing it to. It's damage over time not ticking over.

    Noticed this aswell. Any attack with longer range, longer attack animation or channel has delay. Both me and my friend died several times from full health to 0 in a second, and it was not only by bows.
  • kijima
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    I'm guessing it has something to do with the changes they made to animation cancelling, time to kill is the issue perhaps? And it's both in PvE and PvP that this is happening.

    In PvP it worse as it's not NPC's you are messing with, it's people behind a screen and that is the issue, you are really pissing off your paying customers ZOS. I sat on some rocks last night with my bow pounding some reds on siege equipment, they had no damage ticking over but then boom! It's funny, but my moral compass made me stop and find something else to do.

    It'll have to get fixed with the next patch as it's not a good way to die. I've been the one on the receiving side of this as well as dealing it out, and the only reason I don't get dirty when it happens to me as I'm primarily a bow user, so it goes my way more often than not.
    Been here since Feb 2014 - You'd think I'd be half reasonable at this game by now...
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