Dark cloak

Mr_Koh · July 2015

Dark cloak - so let's talk about dark cloak first, all gap closers bring you out of cloak. All of these gap closers are single target so I'm not sure of this was intended or not. But if you run into a NB that spams ambush you will not be able to go into cloak at all. I know we still want it to have counters but I don't think we want ambush spamming to be a rewarding playstyle against anyone. Also cloak isn't getting you out of any sticky situation of gap closers bring you out of it. At a distance that's their one option to get to you, and I feel that if I successfully created distance then I should be able to successfully cloak.

Xeniph · July 2015

At this point, I highly doubt they CAN get it right.

Just to reiterate, I saw no improvement with Cloaks functionality over what is currently live whatsoever.

To the OP, this is exactly how Cloak is and has worked for a long time, but you are right, it shouldn't.

To the devs- Was this supposed change tested to be confirmed in 1.7? Because not a single NB testing 1.7 is seeing it.

@ZOS_GinaBruno

shadowcoder · August 2015

Any news on this?

MrGrimey · August 2015

Cloak has enough counters... I thought the plan was to make it immune to single target attacks?

olemanwinter · August 2015

I wouldn't get your hopes up.

Honestly, I think Zos regrets creating stealth as a mechanic and NB as a class and have no idea how to fix it.

If NB stealth worked in a way that was LOGICAL it would be OP. But when broken it's totally freaking worthless.

I have no faith in my NB ever working in a way that feels natural, logical, and balanced.

Zsymon · August 2015

Suggestion:

Maybe it would be easier to give Cloak a 100% magicka cost penalty on recasting, and just change it so nothing can ever break it. AoE skills would damage the Nightblade whiled Cloaked, but it would not break the Cloak. So if you Cloaked, you'd stay Cloaked for the duration and nothing can pull you out, not any potions, skills, mechanics or attacks.

That may be easier than trying to fix something the game engine obviously isn't capable of supporting.

PlagueMonk · August 2015

I'm still waiting for them to fix the fact that MANY mobs can see right through cloak while in combat.......I can use it to run right past everything but once I am in combat those very same mobs all of a sudden gain "see invisibility"? WTF is that all about?

Don't believe me try it against the Crag Trolls or Storm Atronachs...you will not be stealthing out of combat.

Dracane · August 2015

So let's talk about Dark Cloak. Dark Cloak makes you immune to single target attacks, even though your enemy has detected you with flare, magelight or whatever. This is freaking broken and OP and you know it.
THAT'S the buggy thing about cloak, nothing else. You might want your cookie cutter cloak to negate all damage

And if this gap closer problem is an unintended bug, then they should fix it.

But it's way more important to fix this unkillable aspect of Cloak before anything else.