Rearming Trap- this exploit is ruining IC

Savos_Saren · September 2015

Seriously. We've been saying it over and over. Zenimax- you haven't done anything about it. You can't always dodge roll out of it... and it's getting spammed in IC by a many crappy players.

[SNIP]

[Moderator Note: Edited per our rules on Naming & Shaming]

Savos_Saren · September 2015

Sorry... I posted the same image twice. Well, at least you'll get to see how bad of an exploit this is... twice.

Kammakazi · September 2015

L2Look@TheGround

Mojmir · September 2015

stay exploitive my friends

DisgracefulMind · September 2015

It's getting fixed Monday.

FriedEggSandwich · September 2015

Kammakazi wrote: »

L2Look@TheGround

In the sewers even if you can see the ground you might not be able to do anything about it due to being walled into an enclosed space. I have a big red ring around me when I have proxy det up but it doesn't stop me from hitting groups of players with it, and I don't even stealth. While I appreciate your sentiment you might want to reserve it for the real qq threads, rather than a legitimate one about a potentially game-breaking exploit.

Hiero_Glyph · September 2015

DisgracefulMind wrote: »

It's getting fixed Monday.

Technically they are applying a hotbreak, not fixing it. The fix will not be applied before the next incremental patch.

Yolokin_Swagonborn · September 2015

Let me give you a brief history of PvP skill exploits. Note that there are ton's more than just the ones I have listed, these are just some of the more notorious ones. Maybe this will give you some perspective while you are raging at ZOS demanding an immediate fix.

The date: May 2014
The problem: Using caltrops would negate any siege damage when you were standing on the caltrops.
What enemy players did: Exploited the hell out of it. They would throw down paths of caltrops, then rush keeps being immune to siege.
What we did: Filled the forums with angry posts demanding an immediate fix.
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/99434/lets-just-say-it-friendly-caltrops-negate-siege-damage/p4
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/99420/caltrops-destroying-seige-warfare-completely-in-cyrodiil
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/105171/caltrops-still-bugged-still-destroying-pvp
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/99606/caltrops-bug-will-be-fixed-after-craglorn-is-that-too-long
What ZOS did: Waited for months to fix it, finally patching it after the next major content patch.

The date: October 2014
The problem: The bow skill Lethal Arrow would apply a healing debuff that would stack. Reducing your healing taken to 0%
What enemy players did: Exploited the hell out of it. Cyrodiil was Elder Bows Online for months
What we did: Here we go again! Trust me these are all good reads.
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/136840/lethal-arrow-the-new-i-win
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/139046/lethal-arrow-healing-debuff-stack-intended-vid-included
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/138769/pvp-reduced-to-lethal-arrow
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/139780/stacking-lethal-arrows-from-any-one-player-100-healing-debuff
What ZOS did: Waited about three months. Patched up sometime in December 2014

The date: November 2014
The problem: Trying to purge certain skills like Wall of Elements actually make all of their DOTs tick at the same time.
What enemy players did: What do you think? It would wipe entire raids.
What we did: Filled the forums with angry posts some of which were deleted to keep the exploit under wraps.
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/140648/wall-of-elements/p1
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/138152/elemental-blockade-unstable-wall-the-new-impulse
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/142466/purge-and-unstable-wall
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/142540/purge-bug-not-a-priority
What ZOS did: Deleted some of our threads about it for damage control and waited for months before fixing.

There are many more and I will happily tell you about them if you are interested. But that takes us to September 2015.

Here's the drill:

You will rage.
You will make 1000 posts about it claiming it has destroyed PvP
You will threaten to quit the game
ZOS will fix it in about 2-3 months

Mojmir · September 2015

Yolokin_Swagonborn wrote: »

Let me give you a brief history of PvP skill exploits. Note that there are ton's more than just the ones I have listed, these are just some of the more notorious ones. Maybe this will give you some perspective while you are raging at ZOS demanding an immediate fix.

The date: May 2014
The problem: Using caltrops would negate any siege damage when you were standing on the caltrops.
What enemy players did: Exploited the hell out of it. They would throw down paths of caltrops, then rush keeps being immune to siege.
What we did: Filled the forums with angry posts demanding an immediate fix.
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/99434/lets-just-say-it-friendly-caltrops-negate-siege-damage/p4
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/99420/caltrops-destroying-seige-warfare-completely-in-cyrodiil
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/105171/caltrops-still-bugged-still-destroying-pvp
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/99606/caltrops-bug-will-be-fixed-after-craglorn-is-that-too-long
What ZOS did: Waited for months to fix it, finally patching it after the next major content patch.

The date: October 2014
The problem: The bow skill Lethal Arrow would apply a healing debuff that would stack. Reducing your healing taken to 0%
What enemy players did: Exploited the hell out of it. Cyrodiil was Elder Bows Online for months
What we did: Here we go again! Trust me these are all good reads.
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/136840/lethal-arrow-the-new-i-win
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/139046/lethal-arrow-healing-debuff-stack-intended-vid-included
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/138769/pvp-reduced-to-lethal-arrow
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/139780/stacking-lethal-arrows-from-any-one-player-100-healing-debuff
What ZOS did: Waited about three months. Patched up sometime in December 2014

The date: November 2014
The problem: Trying to purge certain skills like Wall of Elements actually make all of their DOTs tick at the same time.
What enemy players did: What do you think? It would wipe entire raids.
What we did: Filled the forums with angry posts some of which were deleted to keep the exploit under wraps.
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/140648/wall-of-elements/p1
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/138152/elemental-blockade-unstable-wall-the-new-impulse
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/142466/purge-and-unstable-wall
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/142540/purge-bug-not-a-priority
What ZOS did: Deleted some of our threads about it for damage control and waited for months before fixing.

There are many more and I will happily tell you about them if you are interested. But that takes us to September 2015.

Here's the drill:

You will rage.
You will make 1000 posts about it claiming it has destroyed PvP
You will threaten to quit the game
ZOS will fix it in about 2-3 months

you forgot the deleting of posts in that last part

Bhakura · September 2015

Dont play vampire? Traps hit for a few hundreds of damage then

urkonse · September 2015

i hate when enemies are ambushing at sewer entrance (entering sewer from arena district as EP (base near)....i WANT to get temporary immortality when entering sewres (like when changing surface district)

it so STUPID when you have 1k+ stones and then you realize youre dead after 2 minutes loading...

FriedEggSandwich · September 2015

Yolokin_Swagonborn wrote: »

Let me give you a brief history of PvP skill exploits. Note that there are ton's more than just the ones I have listed, these are just some of the more notorious ones. Maybe this will give you some perspective while you are raging at ZOS demanding an immediate fix.

The date: May 2014
The problem: Using caltrops would negate any siege damage when you were standing on the caltrops.
What enemy players did: Exploited the hell out of it. They would throw down paths of caltrops, then rush keeps being immune to siege.
What we did: Filled the forums with angry posts demanding an immediate fix.
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/99434/lets-just-say-it-friendly-caltrops-negate-siege-damage/p4
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/99420/caltrops-destroying-seige-warfare-completely-in-cyrodiil
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/105171/caltrops-still-bugged-still-destroying-pvp
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/99606/caltrops-bug-will-be-fixed-after-craglorn-is-that-too-long
What ZOS did: Waited for months to fix it, finally patching it after the next major content patch.

The date: October 2014
The problem: The bow skill Lethal Arrow would apply a healing debuff that would stack. Reducing your healing taken to 0%
What enemy players did: Exploited the hell out of it. Cyrodiil was Elder Bows Online for months
What we did: Here we go again! Trust me these are all good reads.
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/136840/lethal-arrow-the-new-i-win
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/139046/lethal-arrow-healing-debuff-stack-intended-vid-included
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/138769/pvp-reduced-to-lethal-arrow
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/139780/stacking-lethal-arrows-from-any-one-player-100-healing-debuff
What ZOS did: Waited about three months. Patched up sometime in December 2014

The date: November 2014
The problem: Trying to purge certain skills like Wall of Elements actually make all of their DOTs tick at the same time.
What enemy players did: What do you think? It would wipe entire raids.
What we did: Filled the forums with angry posts some of which were deleted to keep the exploit under wraps.
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/140648/wall-of-elements/p1
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/138152/elemental-blockade-unstable-wall-the-new-impulse
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/142466/purge-and-unstable-wall
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/142540/purge-bug-not-a-priority
What ZOS did: Deleted some of our threads about it for damage control and waited for months before fixing.

There are many more and I will happily tell you about them if you are interested. But that takes us to September 2015.

Here's the drill:

You will rage.
You will make 1000 posts about it claiming it has destroyed PvP
You will threaten to quit the game
ZOS will fix it in about 2-3 months

Sadly you are right, and props to you for digging all that up. I remember the lethal arrow bug but not the others. But I feel that not all bugs/exploits are equal. To me there's a difference between continuing to use sharpened on your weapon after you discover it's bugged because you can't be bothered/afford to change it, and going out of your way to put inner light on your overload bar and toggle it as you hit 'r'.

I will admit to not actually knowing how this rearming trap bug works, found out about it a few days ago and I've never knowingly been hit by it. I wouldn't expect players to just stop using the skill, just like you couldn't really expect people to stop using dawnbreaker (never used it myself). But if it's one of the exploits that need setting up then it's frown-worthy imo, and those numbers are well over anyone's hp. I was pretty upset when I found out the frags passive could stack from successive procs after 1.6, but I didn't stop using frags. They seemed to patch that fairly quickly if I remember right, but it could well have been a month or two idk.

Yolokin_Swagonborn · September 2015

FriedEggSandwich wrote: »

Yolokin_Swagonborn wrote: »

Let me give you a brief history of PvP skill exploits. Note that there are ton's more than just the ones I have listed, these are just some of the more notorious ones. Maybe this will give you some perspective while you are raging at ZOS demanding an immediate fix.

The date: May 2014
The problem: Using caltrops would negate any siege damage when you were standing on the caltrops.
What enemy players did: Exploited the hell out of it. They would throw down paths of caltrops, then rush keeps being immune to siege.
What we did: Filled the forums with angry posts demanding an immediate fix.
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/99434/lets-just-say-it-friendly-caltrops-negate-siege-damage/p4
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/99420/caltrops-destroying-seige-warfare-completely-in-cyrodiil
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/105171/caltrops-still-bugged-still-destroying-pvp
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/99606/caltrops-bug-will-be-fixed-after-craglorn-is-that-too-long
What ZOS did: Waited for months to fix it, finally patching it after the next major content patch.

The date: October 2014
The problem: The bow skill Lethal Arrow would apply a healing debuff that would stack. Reducing your healing taken to 0%
What enemy players did: Exploited the hell out of it. Cyrodiil was Elder Bows Online for months
What we did: Here we go again! Trust me these are all good reads.
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/136840/lethal-arrow-the-new-i-win
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/139046/lethal-arrow-healing-debuff-stack-intended-vid-included
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/138769/pvp-reduced-to-lethal-arrow
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/139780/stacking-lethal-arrows-from-any-one-player-100-healing-debuff
What ZOS did: Waited about three months. Patched up sometime in December 2014

The date: November 2014
The problem: Trying to purge certain skills like Wall of Elements actually make all of their DOTs tick at the same time.
What enemy players did: What do you think? It would wipe entire raids.
What we did: Filled the forums with angry posts some of which were deleted to keep the exploit under wraps.
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/140648/wall-of-elements/p1
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/138152/elemental-blockade-unstable-wall-the-new-impulse
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/142466/purge-and-unstable-wall
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/142540/purge-bug-not-a-priority
What ZOS did: Deleted some of our threads about it for damage control and waited for months before fixing.

There are many more and I will happily tell you about them if you are interested. But that takes us to September 2015.

Here's the drill:

You will rage.
You will make 1000 posts about it claiming it has destroyed PvP
You will threaten to quit the game
ZOS will fix it in about 2-3 months

Sadly you are right, and props to you for digging all that up. I remember the lethal arrow bug but not the others. But I feel that not all bugs/exploits are equal. To me there's a difference between continuing to use sharpened on your weapon after you discover it's bugged because you can't be bothered/afford to change it, and going out of your way to put inner light on your overload bar and toggle it as you hit 'r'.

I will admit to not actually knowing how this rearming trap bug works, found out about it a few days ago and I've never knowingly been hit by it. I wouldn't expect players to just stop using the skill, just like you couldn't really expect people to stop using dawnbreaker (never used it myself). But if it's one of the exploits that need setting up then it's frown-worthy imo, and those numbers are well over anyone's hp. I was pretty upset when I found out the frags passive could stack from successive procs after 1.6, but I didn't stop using frags. They seemed to patch that fairly quickly if I remember right, but it could well have been a month or two idk.

I think you made a very important point. There are levels of exploit. If something just happens to be more powerful than intended and you keep using it, that's a low level exploit in my opinion. Because you are just playing the game the way its meant to be played. Skills are meant to be used. Nirnhoned armor is meant to be stacked. Sharpened weapons are meant to reduce armor, etc.

But if you have to go out of your way and do something unnatural to get the exploit to work, like using overload, popping a toggle, then turning it back off, then that's a more scummy thing to do. A lot like using the twice born star to get a double mundus then un-equipping the set.

Then the even lower circles of exploit hell would be using macros and/or external programs to accomplish it, but we wont go there. I don't seem to see much macro, speedhack or radar used in this game anymore so I am grateful for that.

phairdon · September 2015

urkonse wrote: »

i hate when enemies are ambushing at sewer entrance (entering sewer from arena district as EP (base near)....i WANT to get temporary immortality when entering sewres (like when changing surface district)

it so STUPID when you have 1k+ stones and then you realize youre dead after 2 minutes loading...

One of my alts plays on an EP campaign. Only time I managed to find a group, guess what the leader wanted to do. Camp outside the AD sewer entrance so we could gank any players heading into the sewers.

PainfulFAFA · September 2015

Yolokin_Swagonborn wrote: »

Let me give you a brief history of PvP skill exploits. Note that there are ton's more than just the ones I have listed, these are just some of the more notorious ones. Maybe this will give you some perspective while you are raging at ZOS demanding an immediate fix.

The date: May 2014
The problem: Using caltrops would negate any siege damage when you were standing on the caltrops.
What enemy players did: Exploited the hell out of it. They would throw down paths of caltrops, then rush keeps being immune to siege.
What we did: Filled the forums with angry posts demanding an immediate fix.
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/99434/lets-just-say-it-friendly-caltrops-negate-siege-damage/p4
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/99420/caltrops-destroying-seige-warfare-completely-in-cyrodiil
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/105171/caltrops-still-bugged-still-destroying-pvp
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/99606/caltrops-bug-will-be-fixed-after-craglorn-is-that-too-long
What ZOS did: Waited for months to fix it, finally patching it after the next major content patch.

The date: October 2014
The problem: The bow skill Lethal Arrow would apply a healing debuff that would stack. Reducing your healing taken to 0%
What enemy players did: Exploited the hell out of it. Cyrodiil was Elder Bows Online for months
What we did: Here we go again! Trust me these are all good reads.
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/136840/lethal-arrow-the-new-i-win
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/139046/lethal-arrow-healing-debuff-stack-intended-vid-included
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/138769/pvp-reduced-to-lethal-arrow
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/139780/stacking-lethal-arrows-from-any-one-player-100-healing-debuff
What ZOS did: Waited about three months. Patched up sometime in December 2014

The date: November 2014
The problem: Trying to purge certain skills like Wall of Elements actually make all of their DOTs tick at the same time.
What enemy players did: What do you think? It would wipe entire raids.
What we did: Filled the forums with angry posts some of which were deleted to keep the exploit under wraps.
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/140648/wall-of-elements/p1
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/138152/elemental-blockade-unstable-wall-the-new-impulse
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/142466/purge-and-unstable-wall
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/142540/purge-bug-not-a-priority
What ZOS did: Deleted some of our threads about it for damage control and waited for months before fixing.

There are many more and I will happily tell you about them if you are interested. But that takes us to September 2015.

Here's the drill:

You will rage.
You will make 1000 posts about it claiming it has destroyed PvP
You will threaten to quit the game
ZOS will fix it in about 2-3 months

Sigh
the infinite batswarm
the infinite streak
igneous shield (that one was fun tho but still op)
mistform exploit
1.6 dawn breaker of smiting
1.6 maces ignoring armor stats
1.6 nirnhone virtually nullifying magicka dmg

Played through all that BS

Mojmir · September 2015

lets not forget camo hunter !!!lol

Yolokin_Swagonborn · September 2015

PainfulFAFA wrote: »

Yolokin_Swagonborn wrote: »

Let me give you a brief history of PvP skill exploits. Note that there are ton's more than just the ones I have listed, these are just some of the more notorious ones. Maybe this will give you some perspective while you are raging at ZOS demanding an immediate fix.

The date: May 2014
The problem: Using caltrops would negate any siege damage when you were standing on the caltrops.
What enemy players did: Exploited the hell out of it. They would throw down paths of caltrops, then rush keeps being immune to siege.
What we did: Filled the forums with angry posts demanding an immediate fix.
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/99434/lets-just-say-it-friendly-caltrops-negate-siege-damage/p4
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/99420/caltrops-destroying-seige-warfare-completely-in-cyrodiil
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/105171/caltrops-still-bugged-still-destroying-pvp
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/99606/caltrops-bug-will-be-fixed-after-craglorn-is-that-too-long
What ZOS did: Waited for months to fix it, finally patching it after the next major content patch.

The date: October 2014
The problem: The bow skill Lethal Arrow would apply a healing debuff that would stack. Reducing your healing taken to 0%
What enemy players did: Exploited the hell out of it. Cyrodiil was Elder Bows Online for months
What we did: Here we go again! Trust me these are all good reads.
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/136840/lethal-arrow-the-new-i-win
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/139046/lethal-arrow-healing-debuff-stack-intended-vid-included
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/138769/pvp-reduced-to-lethal-arrow
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/139780/stacking-lethal-arrows-from-any-one-player-100-healing-debuff
What ZOS did: Waited about three months. Patched up sometime in December 2014

The date: November 2014
The problem: Trying to purge certain skills like Wall of Elements actually make all of their DOTs tick at the same time.
What enemy players did: What do you think? It would wipe entire raids.
What we did: Filled the forums with angry posts some of which were deleted to keep the exploit under wraps.
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/140648/wall-of-elements/p1
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/138152/elemental-blockade-unstable-wall-the-new-impulse
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/142466/purge-and-unstable-wall
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/142540/purge-bug-not-a-priority
What ZOS did: Deleted some of our threads about it for damage control and waited for months before fixing.

There are many more and I will happily tell you about them if you are interested. But that takes us to September 2015.

Here's the drill:

You will rage.
You will make 1000 posts about it claiming it has destroyed PvP
You will threaten to quit the game
ZOS will fix it in about 2-3 months

Sigh
the infinite batswarm
the infinite streak
igneous shield (that one was fun tho but still op)
mistform exploit
1.6 dawn breaker of smiting
1.6 maces ignoring armor stats
1.6 nirnhone virtually nullifying magicka dmg

Played through all that BS

How bout the vampire feed permastun trick? That one was fun.
Also there was a few set that gave permanent health or magicka.
There was an issue with death's wind and bat swarm that gave you ludicrous speed.
There was a way to trick your inventory to think you had two of an item.
And we haven't even mentioned all the terrain hacks.

IKilled007 · September 2015

Yolokin_Swagonborn wrote: »

PainfulFAFA wrote: »

Yolokin_Swagonborn wrote: »

Let me give you a brief history of PvP skill exploits. Note that there are ton's more than just the ones I have listed, these are just some of the more notorious ones. Maybe this will give you some perspective while you are raging at ZOS demanding an immediate fix.

The date: May 2014
The problem: Using caltrops would negate any siege damage when you were standing on the caltrops.
What enemy players did: Exploited the hell out of it. They would throw down paths of caltrops, then rush keeps being immune to siege.
What we did: Filled the forums with angry posts demanding an immediate fix.
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/99434/lets-just-say-it-friendly-caltrops-negate-siege-damage/p4
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/99420/caltrops-destroying-seige-warfare-completely-in-cyrodiil
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/105171/caltrops-still-bugged-still-destroying-pvp
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/99606/caltrops-bug-will-be-fixed-after-craglorn-is-that-too-long
What ZOS did: Waited for months to fix it, finally patching it after the next major content patch.

The date: October 2014
The problem: The bow skill Lethal Arrow would apply a healing debuff that would stack. Reducing your healing taken to 0%
What enemy players did: Exploited the hell out of it. Cyrodiil was Elder Bows Online for months
What we did: Here we go again! Trust me these are all good reads.
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/136840/lethal-arrow-the-new-i-win
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/139046/lethal-arrow-healing-debuff-stack-intended-vid-included
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/138769/pvp-reduced-to-lethal-arrow
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/139780/stacking-lethal-arrows-from-any-one-player-100-healing-debuff
What ZOS did: Waited about three months. Patched up sometime in December 2014

The date: November 2014
The problem: Trying to purge certain skills like Wall of Elements actually make all of their DOTs tick at the same time.
What enemy players did: What do you think? It would wipe entire raids.
What we did: Filled the forums with angry posts some of which were deleted to keep the exploit under wraps.
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/140648/wall-of-elements/p1
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/138152/elemental-blockade-unstable-wall-the-new-impulse
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/142466/purge-and-unstable-wall
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/142540/purge-bug-not-a-priority
What ZOS did: Deleted some of our threads about it for damage control and waited for months before fixing.

There are many more and I will happily tell you about them if you are interested. But that takes us to September 2015.

Here's the drill:

You will rage.
You will make 1000 posts about it claiming it has destroyed PvP
You will threaten to quit the game
ZOS will fix it in about 2-3 months

Sigh
the infinite batswarm
the infinite streak
igneous shield (that one was fun tho but still op)
mistform exploit
1.6 dawn breaker of smiting
1.6 maces ignoring armor stats
1.6 nirnhone virtually nullifying magicka dmg

Played through all that BS

How bout the vampire feed permastun trick? That one was fun.
Also there was a few set that gave permanent health or magicka.
There was an issue with death's wind and bat swarm that gave you ludicrous speed.
There was a way to trick your inventory to think you had two of an item.
And we haven't even mentioned all the terrain hacks.

No one gonna mentioning the duping at the beginning of the game that got people thousands of wax and other mats, putting them forever out of reach money wise?

eliisra · September 2015

Bhakura wrote: »

Dont play vampire? Traps hit for a few hundreds of damage then

If this only affected vamps in PvP, it wouldn't get a hotfix

People abuse it in PvE to speed farm dungeons. That's the why a skill, probably first time in ESO history, is getting a hot fix.

Any1 remember back when Silver Shards was bugged and had a 100% proc rate on vamps and werewolf lol?
Unlike Rearming Traps, you couldn't even avoid it, by paying attention. Every single noob and moron out there was spamming Silver Shards + all the guys that hated vampires. You had 2 choices, basically cure vamp or avoid PvP. Did not get a hot fix.

Arkadius · September 2015

Yolokin_Swagonborn wrote: »

Let me give you a brief history of PvP skill exploits. Note that there are ton's more than just the ones I have listed, these are just some of the more notorious ones. Maybe this will give you some perspective while you are raging at ZOS demanding an immediate fix.

The date: May 2014
The problem: Using caltrops would negate any siege damage when you were standing on the caltrops.
What enemy players did: Exploited the hell out of it. They would throw down paths of caltrops, then rush keeps being immune to siege.
What we did: Filled the forums with angry posts demanding an immediate fix.
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/99434/lets-just-say-it-friendly-caltrops-negate-siege-damage/p4
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/99420/caltrops-destroying-seige-warfare-completely-in-cyrodiil
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/105171/caltrops-still-bugged-still-destroying-pvp
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/99606/caltrops-bug-will-be-fixed-after-craglorn-is-that-too-long
What ZOS did: Waited for months to fix it, finally patching it after the next major content patch.

The date: October 2014
The problem: The bow skill Lethal Arrow would apply a healing debuff that would stack. Reducing your healing taken to 0%
What enemy players did: Exploited the hell out of it. Cyrodiil was Elder Bows Online for months
What we did: Here we go again! Trust me these are all good reads.
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/136840/lethal-arrow-the-new-i-win
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/139046/lethal-arrow-healing-debuff-stack-intended-vid-included
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/138769/pvp-reduced-to-lethal-arrow
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/139780/stacking-lethal-arrows-from-any-one-player-100-healing-debuff
What ZOS did: Waited about three months. Patched up sometime in December 2014

The date: November 2014
The problem: Trying to purge certain skills like Wall of Elements actually make all of their DOTs tick at the same time.
What enemy players did: What do you think? It would wipe entire raids.
What we did: Filled the forums with angry posts some of which were deleted to keep the exploit under wraps.
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/140648/wall-of-elements/p1
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/138152/elemental-blockade-unstable-wall-the-new-impulse
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/142466/purge-and-unstable-wall
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/142540/purge-bug-not-a-priority
What ZOS did: Deleted some of our threads about it for damage control and waited for months before fixing.

There are many more and I will happily tell you about them if you are interested. But that takes us to September 2015.

Here's the drill:

You will rage.
You will make 1000 posts about it claiming it has destroyed PvP
You will threaten to quit the game
ZOS will fix it in about 2-3 months

I'm adding the famous Silverbolt exploit, where Vampires were oneshot. Took several weeks to get fixed, too.

DisgracefulMind · September 2015

Hiero_Glyph wrote: »

DisgracefulMind wrote: »

It's getting fixed Monday.

Technically they are applying a hotbreak, not fixing it. The fix will not be applied before the next incremental patch.

Sorry, excuse me for lack of technicalities. Yes, they're breaking it to make sure it can't be used to exploit the new content and be used against other players.

Troneon · September 2015

But don't forget to buy our new motif in the crown store for double the price of our DLC which has barely been out a few weeks....don't worry we will fix everything someday, maybe soon tm.

LFG Tool is coming in our 2016 hotfix...

Also please give us more money to keep the servers running.....$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

code65536 · September 2015

Wait, are they even going to hotbreak it on Monday? There's no PC maintenance on Monday.

ZOS_Racheal · September 2015

Greetings everyone,

If you find a game mechanic which you believe is not working as intended, and appears to give an advantage, you should report it and not publicly post it. We do not allow discussions of potential exploits or cheats, as this may encourage other users to attempt them.

If you feel that a player is exploiting, please contact our customer support team. While each report is reviewed and appropriately actioned, we will never disclose the results of a ToS investigation or the status of any player's account to anyone aside from the account holder. We appreciate your understanding.

We do not permit Naming & Shaming on the forums. Additionally, we do not allow the discussion of exploits on the forums, even if the player names are blocked out. As such, we have closed this thread. Thank you for your understanding.