Maelstrom Bow Possible Bug

Cure4theEn3my14 · February 2017

Since the patch, I've noticed the charge on my Maelstrom bow enchantment to be losing charge much more quickly. It seems that it is consuming a charge on every tick of the DoT.

I decided to test the Maelstrom 2H to see if it would also consume charge on every bleed DoT tick, which it did not seem to. It only seemed to use a single charge on the initial Crit Charge cast. I, unfortunately, don't have a Maelstrom Destro staff to test if the same thing happens with WoE.

Going through Maelstrom Arena used my entire charge before/by the end and before the patch I don't think even half of the charge was consumed.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't remember reading anything about this being changed in the patch notes, so I'm assuming this is unintended. Has anyone else noticed this? Have you had the same experience with the Maelstrom Destro staff?

Cure4theEn3my14 · February 2017

I did a little more testing and this seems to only happen when you stay on the bar that the ability was cast from. When I cast and immediately switch it only consumes a single charge.

Also, it consumes a charge for every target hit within the AoE as well. I pulled multiple enemies, casted the ability and stayed on the bow bar and it consumed a lot of charge through that. And again, if I swap it only consumes one charge for the cast.

WhiskeyJac · February 2017

yep it is happening , i hard to charge the bow four times in a single raid

Shader_Shibes · February 2017

Yep, fully charged at start of dungeon run, empty by the end.

Izaki · February 2017

Wuuuuut? And I thought it was already running out way too quickly before...

Asmael · February 2017

Can confirm this as well, had to recharge both bow and daggers at approximately the same time before, and now bow depletes like 10x times faster >.>

Ahzek · February 2017

Thats new ?
When i was on PTS, we had 100 skeles stacked om top of each other. 3 casts of endless hail later and my bow was empyt.

Lightspeedflashb14_ESO · February 2017

Does the damage stay the same? I know with the master weapons, you don't need to charge them, the damage increase is always there.

DRXHarbinger · February 2017

IzakiBrotherSs wrote: »

Wuuuuut? And I thought it was already running out way too quickly before...

Lol bro really? I charge mine like every 2 days and play like 6hrs a day. Give a master bow a pop. It's like 20 injections and it's gone.

TheWiesi · February 2017

[PS4/EU]

Same problem here. Besides of this you hear that thundering sound every tick of Endless Hail. Its really annoying!!

Pallio · February 2017

Welcome to homestead, many new and exciting bugs await.

Toc de Malsvi · March 2017

DRXHarbinger wrote: »

IzakiBrotherSs wrote: »

Wuuuuut? And I thought it was already running out way too quickly before...

Lol bro really? I charge mine like every 2 days and play like 6hrs a day. Give a master bow a pop. It's like 20 injections and it's gone.

It's going out faster than Master bow now. At least if you spend any time on the bow bar.

TheWiesi · March 2017

Toc de Malsvi wrote: »

DRXHarbinger wrote: »

IzakiBrotherSs wrote: »

Wuuuuut? And I thought it was already running out way too quickly before...

Lol bro really? I charge mine like every 2 days and play like 6hrs a day. Give a master bow a pop. It's like 20 injections and it's gone.

It's going out faster than Master bow now. At least if you spend any time on the bow bar.

It doesn't depend on whether u're on bow bar or not. Charge is running out even if you are on dw bar. You don't hear it anymore though.

React · March 2017

Yeah I've reported this in the bug reports section and on the pts section multiple times over the past couple weeks. I've also tagged @ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_JessicaFolsom and @ZOS_RichLambert but none of them have even aknoledged that they are aware of this bug. Pretty unfortunate =/

Toc de Malsvi · March 2017

TheWiesi wrote: »

Toc de Malsvi wrote: »

DRXHarbinger wrote: »

IzakiBrotherSs wrote: »

Wuuuuut? And I thought it was already running out way too quickly before...

Lol bro really? I charge mine like every 2 days and play like 6hrs a day. Give a master bow a pop. It's like 20 injections and it's gone.

It's going out faster than Master bow now. At least if you spend any time on the bow bar.

It doesn't depend on whether u're on bow bar or not. Charge is running out even if you are on dw bar. You don't hear it anymore though.

I found it does depend on that, I'm not disagreeing that it will run out faster than it did prior to homestead. Only that if you main bar bow it will run out even faster.

I have done some testing main bar with bow and I can only kill the dummy twice, the third time on the 3mil dummy it runs out in the middle of the test.

When I back bar it, I can get 4 dummies and it runs out on the 5th.

Rataroto · March 2017

Cure4theEn3my14 wrote: »

I did a little more testing and this seems to only happen when you stay on the bar that the ability was cast from. When I cast and immediately switch it only consumes a single charge.

Also, it consumes a charge for every target hit within the AoE as well. I pulled multiple enemies, casted the ability and stayed on the bow bar and it consumed a lot of charge through that. And again, if I swap it only consumes one charge for the cast.

Just so you know OP, even if you bar swap the charges still are consumed as it ticks, it just doesnt play the soundfx/animation. I called this out the day of the patch and no one said anything about it. Its getting me triggered and I want my gems back.

@ZOS_RichLambert please look into this or at least say something

Cure4theEn3my14 · March 2017

Rataroto wrote: »

Cure4theEn3my14 wrote: »

I did a little more testing and this seems to only happen when you stay on the bar that the ability was cast from. When I cast and immediately switch it only consumes a single charge.

Also, it consumes a charge for every target hit within the AoE as well. I pulled multiple enemies, casted the ability and stayed on the bow bar and it consumed a lot of charge through that. And again, if I swap it only consumes one charge for the cast.

Just so you know OP, even if you bar swap the charges still are consumed as it ticks, it just doesnt play the soundfx/animation. I called this out the day of the patch and no one said anything about it. Its getting me triggered and I want my gems back.

@ZOS_RichLambert please look into this or at least say something

I've found this not to be the case. For me, it only seems to consume charge when on the Bow bar.

Either way, this is incredibly annoying.

@ZOS_RichLambert @ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_JessicaFolsom

TheWiesi · March 2017

You don't get it guys. It's no bug. It's just a new way to tell us we should stop playing stamina in this patch.

TheWiesi · March 2017

i've made a video just to show that issue:

Video

In addition i show some weird stuff regarding to the Twice Fanged Serpent Set.
@ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_JessicaFolsom @ZOS_RichLambert

Edit: Ignore the part with twice fanged serpent. Didn't know that bleeding damage ignore physical resistance

Alcast · March 2017

*cough* MASTER WEAPONS FLASHBACK *Cough*

Same thing is still happening with master weapons.... and those have been around for a loooooong time

Avran_Sylt · March 2017

I've heard that the damage from the enchants still remain even with no charge. I know that these enchants are coded differently, as not even torug's pact 5 piece effects them. anyone able to deplete the charge and check if the damage still ticks up?

TheWiesi · March 2017

Avran_Sylt wrote: »

I've heard that the damage from the enchants still remain even with no charge. I know that these enchants are coded differently, as not even torug's pact 5 piece effects them. anyone able to deplete the charge and check if the damage still ticks up?

I've tested it right now. Unfortunately the damage doesn't tick up if the charge is depleted. But it seems like you still have the weapon damage from the enchantment.

Pallio · March 2017

This bug has been reported and ignored like most everything in Homestead.

Toc de Malsvi · March 2017

Pallio wrote: »

This bug has been reported and ignored like most everything in Homestead.

Yup.

TheWiesi · March 2017

I mean....at least ZOS could say something like: "Thanks for the report. We will fix it with next patch." Or even "We noticed it". Everything is better than saying nothing at all.

TheWiesi · March 2017

Still no acknowledgement?
@ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_JessicaFolsom @ZOS_RichLambert

TheWiesi · March 2017

I've seen ZOS responded to several bug reports recently. So @ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_JessicaFolsom please notice this issue too.

OrphanHelgen · March 2017

I have this as well

Toc de Malsvi · March 2017

Thread title needs to be changed to just Bug, not "possible bug".

Upright_man · March 2017

Its frustrating having to charge it every 3 seconds huh.. Even in a 4 man dungeon i ran out of charges and that run was over in no time... Add me to the list of people suffering the bow charge bug XD

rosendoichinoveb17_ESO · March 2017

i seem to be experiencing this bug too. Before i could do several dungeons before the charges are depleted. This time sometimes i am not finished with the first one and a recharge is needed.