ultimate gain from siphoning not always working

DeclaredJester · April 2016

(Xbox)

On my v16 magicka NB I have noticed that sometimes I don't get the ultimate gain from using siphoning attacks (the passive) until I actually use a light/heavy attack on the opponent. I am thinking this is not how it's supposed to be and was wondering if anyone else has had this happen to them too?
Once I do a single light attack on the opponent, the ultimate gain from siphoning starts working again, but eventually it will die off, and need to be rekindled the same way. I'm a chicken and prefer ranged attacks, so it's kinda disruptive to my chicken gamestyle.

Panth141 · April 2016

The tooltip reads:

'While gaining ultimate'

So I guess that the LA is necessary to fulfill this criterion

RAGUNAnoOne · April 2016

You need to be naturally charging ultimate which requires light or heavy attacks every 10 seconds or something like that.

Septimus_Magna · April 2016

There are two ultimate regen mechanics in the case that you describe.

The first is the normal ultimate regeneration (from light/heavy attacks, blocking, healing or dodging).
This gives 3 ultimate every second for I believe 8 seconds, so in total 24 ultimate after seconds.

The second mechanic is the NB Transfer passive which gives 2 addition ultimate when you active a siphoning ability (4 second cooldown on the effect).

I believe the Transfer passive only works in combat so in the best case scenario you will get 4 additional ultimate every 8 seconds besides the normal ultimate regeneration of 24 every 8 seconds.

RAGUNAnoOne · April 2016

Cust combine what I and @Septimus_Magna said

Aspi90 · April 2016

apropos ulti, is there a way on console to show how much ulti i have?

RAGUNAnoOne · April 2016

No there is not