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Ball of Lightning fails 50% of the time
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I got tired of seeing myself being hit with ranged spell projectiles in PVP while using Ball of Lightning morph and I decided to head to low level PVE zone to test it out. Sadly I can't fraps but it is very easy for anyone to see for themselves. Find a caster mob and try for yourself. Their standard spell projectile attacks get through routinely even if they cast it well after your BoL is activated and well within the range and time duration of the effect. If the spell projectile gets absorbed, all spell projectiles will be absorbed for that one cast of BoL. If one spell projectile gets through, they all get through. Pretty sad how broken this skill is.
Edited by Erock25 on November 11, 2014 4:52PM You earned the 500 LOLs badge.
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✭That ability worked very, very well before this patch. I'll have to look at it again in PVP to see if it's broken before I believe you.1 -
ghengis_dhan✭✭✭I have had no problem using Ball of Lightning, but I haven't been in Cyrodiil since the patch. (Been working my crafting writs and leveling my VR5 character.) I'll check it next time I assault a flag."It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
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✭✭s7732425ub17_ESO wrote: »That ability worked very, very well before this patch. I'll have to look at it again in PVP to see if it's broken before I believe you.
I tested in a PVE zone. It was laughable the rate at which it didn't work against NPCs.You earned the 500 LOLs badge.
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parangea✭✭I used BoL for a while, but after I saw the death recap telling me "Crystal Fragments", "Crushing Shock", "That one NB skill that heals as well", kill me all the time I changed back to Streak, to at least increase my pitiful damage-The herd shall bleed to feed their masters, House Nyssara shall reign supreme-~For the Dread Father and the Night Mother~
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✭✭✭s7732425ub17_ESO wrote: »That ability worked very, very well before this patch. I'll have to look at it again in PVP to see if it's broken before I believe you.
I tested in a PVE zone. It was laughable the rate at which it didn't work against NPCs.
Don't rely on PVE tests. Dozens of projectiles go through my reflective scales in PVE, get a buddy from a different alliance and test BoL.
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✭I tested this out before the patch on my EP sorc against an AD sorc and a NB. There were some failures, but there didn't seem to be any pattern. It didn't matter if the other players skill was activated before or after I used BoL. Sometimes it absorbed and sometimes it didn't. It did work more than 50% of the time.
I haven't tested it out since the patch, but I haven't noticed any difference in the fail rate than before the patch and I do a lot of bolting while in Cyrodiil.Cinn #SorcLivesMatter
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✭tooltip update, Ball of lightning has a chance to absorb spell projectiles..../sigh0 -
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✭✭✭Sypherpkub17_ESO wrote: »s7732425ub17_ESO wrote: »That ability worked very, very well before this patch. I'll have to look at it again in PVP to see if it's broken before I believe you.
I tested in a PVE zone. It was laughable the rate at which it didn't work against NPCs.
Don't rely on PVE tests. Dozens of projectiles go through my reflective scales in PVE, get a buddy from a different alliance and test BoL.
Really? Never experienced that in PvE for scales. It's not that difficult to notice if they are being bypassed either when you're soloing a v14 public dungeon. They either work and you survive or they don't and you get a "Taking Aim" 2.7k HP arrow in the face.EU | PC | AD0 -
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✭✭✭✭✭A lot of NPC "ranged" abilities are counted as "melee" when calculated vs reflective scales, as has been alluded to earlier.
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✭✭A lot of NPC "ranged" abilities are counted as "melee" when calculated vs reflective scales, as has been alluded to earlier.
This has nothing to do with the tests I was doing because these caster mobs had three distinct attacks. One where they sent a aoe column attack of whatever element they were using, one where they dropped two circular aoe attacks on the ground and their basic staff attack. Of those three attacks, of course I ignored the two aoe attacks, but the basic staff attack would jump back and forth between being absorbed by BoL and not being absorbed and it would be either an all or nothing type deal where every basic staff attack would be absorbed per cast of BoL or none of them would be absorbed.
If you were only referring to how Scales work and not trying to connect it to BoL and its spell absorption, please disregard the above.You earned the 500 LOLs badge.
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