[BUG] Lord Warden sends my Bear to Oblivion!

baratron · October 2017

PC-NA

Attention @ZOS_Finn and Dungeon Team:

I was playing my Warden Healer on Tuesday night, and ended up in a slightly fail run of Veteran Imperial City Prison. In an attempt to improve the group DPS, I switched my Ultimate from Enchanted Forest & War Horn to Eternal Guardian on both bars.

Unfortunately, when I went into the portal for Darklight, my bear went with me and did not return.

Hitting the Ultimate key again (which would usually make the bear do a fierce attack) did not recall the bear.

The bear could only be resummoned after I died. He promptly stayed with me until the next Darklight, when he disappeared again. This continued throughout the fail run until we finally succeeded.

I knew Lord Warden Dusk is jealous of these new player Wardens, but to actually start kidnapping our bears... Well!

I am not sure whether this is a bear pathing problem or a more general problem with pets and the Darklight portals. Though I'm sure people would have mentioned before now if Lord Warden was stealing their Sorcerer's Clannfear. This bug made the dungeon considerably less fun to play, because the Feral Guardian is perfect for a large arena where the enemy moves around frequently. Please look into the Darklight portals and their bear-swallowing powers! If it turns out to be a pathing problem, please inform @zos_wrobel's Ursine Pathfinding Division of yet another instance when the Feral Guardian fails to guard

Merlin13KAGL · October 2017

Welcome to the pet AI. It only gets worse from here.

They really don't handle edge case scenarios well at all. Never have, probably never will.

Perhaps your bear forgot to brace for impact?

baratron · October 2017

I hit the synergy button twice to be sure my bear was getting braced for impact too

(No, seriously, I tend to mash the synergy a few times because it doesn't always go through, and it's frustrating to die when you did press X.)

It's amusing because my main is a Sorcerer but I've never really used pets. I don't like how uncontrollable they are, or the fact that my Lawful Good main has the Murderer achievement because I was using the Twilight Matriarch in Battlegrounds. While standing there in Vivec City checking whether I had the Midyear Mayhem achievement (and therefore semi-idle), some random near me decided to murder an NPC. My flappy thing decided to heal the player, and that counted as an assist for the Murderer achieve (facepalm).

Mystrius_Archaion · October 2017

baratron wrote: »

I hit the synergy button twice to be sure my bear was getting braced for impact too

(No, seriously, I tend to mash the synergy a few times because it doesn't always go through, and it's frustrating to die when you did press X.)

It's amusing because my main is a Sorcerer but I've never really used pets. I don't like how uncontrollable they are, or the fact that my Lawful Good main has the Murderer achievement because I was using the Twilight Matriarch in Battlegrounds. While standing there in Vivec City checking whether I had the Midyear Mayhem achievement (and therefore semi-idle), some random near me decided to murder an NPC. My flappy thing decided to heal the player, and that counted as an assist for the Murderer achieve (facepalm).

I always play with "prevent attacking innocents" on, but my clannfear once went ape for no reason and finished off a npc in the Vulkhel Guard bank for no reason while I was talking to the banker. Needless to say, I had to dismiss them and run and hide for a bit.

ZOS_GinaBruno · October 2017

Thanks @baratron, we're digging into this one.