P1.4 Volatile Familiar Bugs - Devs plz fix ASAP.

heyguyslol · September 2014

orxan.qayibovb16_ESO · October 2014

I wrote several letters, no answer. ZOS not to care

Darthryan · October 2014

Be a nightblade then you'll know how we feel about our dark cloak buggying since beta.

Erock25 · October 2014

Why did this guy go to the trouble of making a 7 minute video but couldn't take two seconds to write the main bullet points out? You think ZOS is more likely to watch a 7 minute video than read a few words?

Anyways your second bug is wrong. Using addons, I see the exactly 15% magicka being returned to me on unsummon.

You also missed a very important bug, as of 1.4 Vol Familiar can no longer crit.

Gorthax · October 2014

If people cant replicate the bug that does no summon and no explosion...its easy, EASY, to replicate. Just spam 1 as fast as you can. You will NEVER get one to spawn or explode and your magicka will be taken away. Boom 7 minute video done in one paragraph

It happens to me with my build like this. It is annoying BUT there is a timing to it. I can spam this thing while avoiding the bug. *tips hat* good day ^_^

I hope they fix it though

RSram · October 2014

Another problem that wasn't mentioned was that the Familiar sometimes just follows you and doesn't attack, or you can't direct it to attack, but reconquering it fixes the problem. I have it on both swap bars, so I not referring to the bug mentioned in the video where this bug occurs using just one slot.

Erock25 states that the Familiar can no longer crit; How can I test this?

heyguyslol · October 2014

RSram wrote: »

Another problem that wasn't mentioned was that the Familiar sometimes just follows you and doesn't attack, or you can't direct it to attack, but reconquering it fixes the problem. I have it on both swap bars, so I not referring to the bug mentioned in the video where this bug occurs using just one slot.

Erock25 states that the Familiar can no longer crit; How can I test this?

Yes this happens to me as well but not sure if I would call this a bug but probably just poor pet mechanics. I hate to bring up WoW but the pet commands were much better and responsive. I wish Zos would incorporate those into our pets.

heyguyslol · October 2014

Gorthax wrote: »

If people cant replicate the bug that does no summon and no explosion...its easy, EASY, to replicate. Just spam 1 as fast as you can. You will NEVER get one to spawn or explode and your magicka will be taken away. Boom 7 minute video done in one paragraph

It happens to me with my build like this. It is annoying BUT there is a timing to it. I can spam this thing while avoiding the bug. *tips hat* good day ^_^

I hope they fix it though

Not exactly sure what you are saying here but prior to P1.4 you could spam summon/explode the pet. It still took about 2 secs to do it as 1 sec to summon and 1 sec to un-summon but at least it worked. Now if you need to spam it you can't and on top of that it uses up your magicka. There is no mention in the patch notes 1.4 of any change for this ability other than the dmg being reset back to 20%.

heyguyslol · October 2014

Erock25 wrote: »

Why did this guy go to the trouble of making a 7 minute video but couldn't take two seconds to write the main bullet points out? You think ZOS is more likely to watch a 7 minute video than read a few words?

Anyways your second bug is wrong. Using addons, I see the exactly 15% magicka being returned to me on unsummon.

You also missed a very important bug, as of 1.4 Vol Familiar can no longer crit.

I did both notes and a video. Watching a video of a bug or bugs allows the devs to actually see whats happening because zos has proven to me to be quite incompetent. But as I said I provided both.

The 15% return at the time of this patch was not working 100%. I would say it worked at about 50% of the time, if u carefully watch the video u can see there are times where I un-summoned and it did not return the magicka.

As far as the inability to crit being a bug that would require further testing as at the time of this video it was not something I had tested.

heyguyslol · October 2014

mriguy1981 wrote: »

Be a nightblade then you'll know how we feel about our dark cloak buggying since beta.

You get no argument from me about that. I hope that the cloak is fixed in the way it is intended to work. Tbh since the last patch all of my nb friends seem happy about the fix so I'm guessing its working good now. Unfortunately stealth in general is still rather broken as I'm constantly stuck in combat and cant stealth or mount, lol.

Erock25 · October 2014

heyguyslol wrote: »

Erock25 wrote: »

Why did this guy go to the trouble of making a 7 minute video but couldn't take two seconds to write the main bullet points out? You think ZOS is more likely to watch a 7 minute video than read a few words?

Anyways your second bug is wrong. Using addons, I see the exactly 15% magicka being returned to me on unsummon.

You also missed a very important bug, as of 1.4 Vol Familiar can no longer crit.

I did both notes and a video. Watching a video of a bug or bugs allows the devs to actually see whats happening because often times ppl get lost or confused in simple text descriptions. But as I said I provided both.

The 15% return at the time of this patch was not working 100%. I would say it worked at about 50% of the time, if u carefully watch the video u can see there are times where I un-summoned and it did not return the magicka.

As far as the inability to crit being a bug that would require further testing as at the time of this video it was not something I had tested.

I saw magicka returns every time you unsummon. Install Combat Cloud and change the defaults to show magicka returns. You are receiving 15% every time and if you aren't, then for some reason you are experiencing a bug while I am not (tested many, many times since seeing this post).

Take my word on Vol Fam not critting. Again, I have add-ons that display crits and show summaries of crits and Vol Fam now has a big fat 0% chance to crit regardless of how high I stack spell or phys crit. This was not the case pre patch 1.4.

I'm expecting another NB to chime in about bugged skills, but it is frustrating that Vol Fam has screwed up for months now ever since they temporarily nerfed it to 12% max magicka dmg.

heyguyslol · October 2014

Erock25 wrote: »

heyguyslol wrote: »

Erock25 wrote: »

Why did this guy go to the trouble of making a 7 minute video but couldn't take two seconds to write the main bullet points out? You think ZOS is more likely to watch a 7 minute video than read a few words?

Anyways your second bug is wrong. Using addons, I see the exactly 15% magicka being returned to me on unsummon.

You also missed a very important bug, as of 1.4 Vol Familiar can no longer crit.

I did both notes and a video. Watching a video of a bug or bugs allows the devs to actually see whats happening because often times ppl get lost or confused in simple text descriptions. But as I said I provided both.

The 15% return at the time of this patch was not working 100%. I would say it worked at about 50% of the time, if u carefully watch the video u can see there are times where I un-summoned and it did not return the magicka.

As far as the inability to crit being a bug that would require further testing as at the time of this video it was not something I had tested.

I saw magicka returns every time you unsummon. Install Combat Cloud and change the defaults to show magicka returns. You are receiving 15% every time and if you aren't, then for some reason you are experiencing a bug while I am not (tested many, many times since seeing this post).

Take my word on Vol Fam not critting. Again, I have add-ons that display crits and show summaries of crits and Vol Fam now has a big fat 0% chance to crit regardless of how high I stack spell or phys crit. This was not the case pre patch 1.4.

No need to come off combative man. All I'm trying to do is get zos to fix these issues. While I believe your tests may be telling u one thing mine told me something different. Furthermore I'm not disagreeing with u about the so called crit bug. All I was saying is that I have not actually tested it.

heyguyslol · October 2014

Here are the addons I use for testing.

CombatAnalytics
http://www.esoui.com/downloads/info702-CombatAnalytics.html

Combat Log Statistics
http://www.esoui.com/downloads/info23-CombatLogStatisticsCLS.html

I'm familiar with Combat Cloud but for testing purposes I don't particularly like to use it.