I don't know who the technical personnel is at ZOS, so I have just tagged Jessica.

It seems to be destruction-staff related only and has effected my Sorcerer from the moment I created him and unlocked Impulse. It happens for others who I know on console also.

andypappb16_ESO wrote: »

I believe that issue is connected to the Flame Destruction Staff, that's where I noticed the same problem.

Interesting... I guess the flame effects are too intense for the game or something.

TheDarkShadow wrote: »

And I thought because my desktop is outdate. This also happened to me when I was still playing my sorc, but then I swap to NB and use sap instead of impulse, the problem seem to "solve" itself. Maybe it's just something about Sorc and impulse.

If that was happening to me on PC, I'd be worried about my PC as well... I wonder if it happens on Xbox also. It probably does for all platforms, and so I wonder if ZOS has ever acknowledged this. I may have to abandon Impulse as well.

Here's another video of me attempting vMSA with a destruction staff and as soon as I start, and cast Elemental Blockade this time, I get the whole lag spike issue once again which seems to effect all of my spells, until I restart the game. Totally putting me off wanting to do a clear with a destruction staff:



@ZOS_GinaBruno Please alert the performance devs about Destruction staff fire spells. I'm on console, PS4 EU and this has been happening for as long as I can remember.

Started doing similar to that with my Lightning staff last night ! No idea why, but I never had stuttering like this before last night on PS4. Unlocked the last passive (2/2) last night too. I know it doesn't make sense, but could it have anything to do with h that ?

So the problem isn't only with Flame staff now.

Makes my sorc, Well, unplayable, really...

Molag_Crow wrote: »

Here's another video of me attempting vMSA with a destruction staff and as soon as I start, and cast Elemental Blockade this time, I get the whole lag spike issue once again which seems to effect all of my spells, until I restart the game. Totally putting me off wanting to do a clear with a destruction staff:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FibSiKWBRsI

@ZOS_GinaBruno Please alert the performance devs about Destruction staff fire spells. I'm on console, PS4 EU and this has been happening for as long as I can remember.

I get this issue quite often. If you look again, each time you kill something it stutters. It's hard to say if it's tied to the inferno staff (which i was also using) or simply a delayed ping to tell the server that something has been killed.

I think it might be the last passive of Destro staff that returns magicka on kill ? Something *** up with the math of it because it does seem to stutter every kill and now that I think about it, that's about when the stutters happen to me too.

neville_bart0s wrote: »

I get the same problem, I thought it was VMA but maybe it is the flame staff abilities.... time to make myself an ice staff I guess.

puffytheslayer wrote: »

i thought it was my valkyn proc that was causing this.....

nope. i run skoria on my stam sorc and I never get the problem, but my mag NB with destro staff is unplayable.

@neville_bart0s I prefer ice anyway nothing says "Keep away!" or "You can't run!" more than the Ice Staff in my opinion. Now if only there was a Ice Skill line.

Is the lag happening whenever something dies while using a destruction staff? Its hard to tell from the videos if that's the case or not.

If it is happening when a mob is killed while wielding a Destruction Staff it sounds very close to a similar issue I had on PC. I was working on an add-on and found that when using the EVENT_ACTION_SLOT_UPDATED event it was being called 40-50 times during a single frame whenever something dies while using a Destruction Staff. In my case I simply stopped using that event in the add-on since it was causing the exact same issues as I see in the video.

If it is the same issue then perhaps the game UI files started using the EVENT_ACTION_SLOT_UPDATED for something, or the root issue which causes that event to fire so many times in a single frame got worse. Anyways....just mentioning it in case it may help the devs or players track down the issue in some way.

Reorx_Holybeard wrote: »

Is the lag happening whenever something dies while using a destruction staff? Its hard to tell from the videos if that's the case or not.

If it is happening when a mob is killed while wielding a Destruction Staff it sounds very close to a similar issue I had on PC. I was working on an add-on and found that when using the EVENT_ACTION_SLOT_UPDATED event it was being called 40-50 times during a single frame whenever something dies while using a Destruction Staff. In my case I simply stopped using that event in the add-on since it was causing the exact same issues as I see in the video.

If it is the same issue then perhaps the game UI files started using the EVENT_ACTION_SLOT_UPDATED for something, or the root issue which causes that event to fire so many times in a single frame got worse. Anyways....just mentioning it in case it may help the devs or players track down the issue in some way.

@ZOS_GinaBruno can you pass the above info onto the devs, sounds like it might be onto something

Reorx_Holybeard wrote: »

Is the lag happening whenever something dies while using a destruction staff? Its hard to tell from the videos if that's the case or not.

If it is happening when a mob is killed while wielding a Destruction Staff it sounds very close to a similar issue I had on PC. I was working on an add-on and found that when using the EVENT_ACTION_SLOT_UPDATED event it was being called 40-50 times during a single frame whenever something dies while using a Destruction Staff. In my case I simply stopped using that event in the add-on since it was causing the exact same issues as I see in the video.

If it is the same issue then perhaps the game UI files started using the EVENT_ACTION_SLOT_UPDATED for something, or the root issue which causes that event to fire so many times in a single frame got worse. Anyways....just mentioning it in case it may help the devs or players track down the issue in some way.

It's happening on console (these videos are all from PS4) and by the looks of it, it happens on PC/Mac(?) too so.. definitely not addon-related. It doesn't do it for any other weapon other than Destruction staffs (when enemies die) for me, and I'm not sure about lightning or ice staffs.

It's not too bad when you kill a single mob, but when killing multiple mobs at once (AOE, grinding) it can freeze you for several seconds. :'(

Enemy-of-Coldharbour wrote: »

It's not too bad when you kill a single mob, but when killing multiple mobs at once (AOE, grinding) it can freeze you for several seconds. :'(

I agree it seems to be happening when killing large mobs. One place I always notice it is in wayrest sewers while fighting those large mobs all throughout the dungeon.

I think it indeed has something to do with the magicka return passive. I remember everything is fine when I'm leveling with destro staff. But when I max out and start to put points on passive skills, it happen. I'll have to test it again to be sure.