Skills/spells sometimes not working

Moonshadow66 · November 2014

I've noticed when I cast spells, preferably Crystal Shard (with Crystal Fragments morph) or Encase (with Shattering Prison morph), they actually hit but don't do what they should. Not always but too often.

I can see that they "hit" the targets somehow but they are neither trapped nor are they knocked down, so they just keep fighting me. Bad thing is that I start to run low on magicka too quickly and for nothing since I have to cast it again.

Btw, my keyboard is still working, so that's not it, and it's also not a delay like some other times when I see the effect a bit later.
I have to say that most of the time it still works like normal, but I cannot accept the other times where it doesn't.

It's basically the same with all the different types of sounds, they play or they don't.
Before the update, I never ever had these problems. Anyone else having the same?

Blud · November 2014

Sometimes taunts don't work either

Baphomet · November 2014

Only played my templar since the update, but dark flare and reflective light in particular are suffering from the same issue. They "hit" the target but do nothing. I've also been standing in front of NPC in Cyrodiil on level ground and used biting jabs, only to see one or two attacks from the flurry actually affecting the hit box.

I also made a thread about it - glad I am not the only one experiencing this.

lostavalon · November 2014

yea there is definatly something going on with frags not hitting, especially from stealth i casted 3 frags at 1 person on a horse and not one of them hit

Moonshadow66 · November 2014

Thanks for your replies, I'm glad, too, that I'm not the only one. I hope they'll fix it soon.

Enemy-of-Coldharbour · November 2014

Same with Burning or Chocking Talons. You cast the spell and sometimes nothing happens even though I see the casting animation. Sometimes it seems you have to be standing perfectly still for it to work. Is there a percentage for failure or should it work every time?

Moonshadow66 · November 2014

cgipervert wrote: »

Same with Burning or Chocking Talons. You cast the spell and sometimes nothing happens even though I see the casting animation. Sometimes it seems you have to be standing perfectly still for it to work. Is there a percentage for failure or should it work every time?

I think it's supposed to work every time since spellcasting did work fine before the update.. Now this is broken as well as the sounds, only works sometimes.

Moonshadow66 · November 2014

I just played for another few hours, and I found out that not just the spells/skills sometimes don't work, but also some spells don't have an effect in the first place anymore (which gives you the message in the upper right corner, that this enemy is "too powerful for this effect").

F.e. I cannot knock down Watchers anymore, or not "encase" and knock down Trolls anymore, etc. So what am I supposed to do now, watching my character dying all the time and pay a fortune for the repair cost??

As a mage which has both of the Daedras slotted, I only can use 3 other skills/spells, and 2 of them are completely useless now when fighting certain creatures. I can barely survive by using only 1 skill/spell, and the summoned Daedra are helpful, but don't deal as much damage as I would with my other skills (additional to the Daedras).

So, what now??

Moonshadow66 · November 2014

No one else? Where are all the Mages, are you not having any of these issues/problems?

Xjcon · November 2014

I have been having issues with something similar. I will be going through my weaving of heavy attack and crushing shock and all the sudden two or three casts in to either action it will bug out. The crushing shock will fail to go off or I can't seem to charge heavy attack. I have to stop for a few seconds and try to start over.
I thought this was maybe just some odd lag and maybe just me. But I have fiber Internet and a decent gaming pc. My rotation was flawless prior to the patch.

drkeys143 · November 2014

Yep, similar problems with my temp, also seem to back to the scenario again where skills are just not firing, or else when I use Aedric spear, it is still in my hand at the end of the fight, and I can't get my staff to show. Seem to have this after every patch