Heavy attacks [stam builds]

eso_lags · October 2017

Mainly on xbox.. Maybe on PC/Ps4 as well, i dont know but regardless... I couldn't land a damn heavy attack if my life depended on it, and most of the time it does >_<.. Why is this happening, when did this change? I can think back to around one tamriel ( possibly ) when heavy attacks started to feel clunky on a stam build, but im not sure when it exactly happened.. Now my builds depend on getting a heavy attack in every now and again and its just not happening. My guess would be around a year or so ago ( maybe sooner maybe longer) was when they actually worked.. Heavy attacks actually connected every time when you are standing in someones face.. But after some update in the game this seems to have changed. Now I can be in a duel with someone, both of us running DW or S/B, and we are swinging our swords like idiots in each others faces and landing maybe 1/10 heavy attacks. This happens to me every day, and its bad on duel wield or sword and board but it is soo much worse on 2h.

So now my questions for others are.. Do you experience this? On PC or just console? Do you know when it started?

I know its not just me, i talk to people regularly that confirm the same thing.. Maybe its just the horrible state that the game is on xbox? I dont know.. It just doesn't seem normal to me, seems like something that was messed up but never tweaked back to normal. What im hoping to figure out if this is an actual issue that zos could* fix if they knew about it..

VaranisArano · October 2017

A short while back I noticed a change where my heavy attacks were actually hitting on the targeting reticule as opposed to in the general vicinity of the targeting reticule. So if I'm not centered on a boss in a dungeon, I'll hear my attacks missing or not going off properly when they used to. (Yeah, I hear the attacks because its hard to see them on a stam sorc in hurricane form. They have a distinct sound when hitting properly or missing.)

Could it be a matter of making sure your reticule is on the target and not just in their general direction?

zaria · October 2017

VaranisArano wrote: »

A short while back I noticed a change where my heavy attacks were actually hitting on the targeting reticule as opposed to in the general vicinity of the targeting reticule. So if I'm not centered on a boss in a dungeon, I'll hear my attacks missing or not going off properly when they used to. (Yeah, I hear the attacks because its hard to see them on a stam sorc in hurricane form. They have a distinct sound when hitting properly or missing.)

Could it be a matter of making sure your reticule is on the target and not just in their general direction?

For some weird reason aim assist tend to go on an off with some days change, mostly is off.
I use bow for HA, it let me keep distance and usually end to reaply DoT at end of HA

Thogard · October 2017

Two things are happening:
First, I’m whiffing a lot of my heavy attacks since I was used to the slightly longer cast time and I’m 99% sure that when they changed the cast time they didn’t change the animation, making It far more unreliable to use...
Second, players are getting better and they know that if you’re heavy attacking, well timed block will block you from receiving the resources you need.

Koolio · October 2017

It's has issue that have been around a long time.

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/289779/issue-destro-heavy-attack-targeting-misses-no-shuffle

Sleep724 · October 2017

I just noticed this the other day trying a heavy attack build. Seemed like I was whiffing a lot and that something seemed off.

KingJ · October 2017

Heavy attacks have been werid for me as well th ought I was just going crazy.

Lexxypwns · October 2017

I feel like the hit detection for heavy attacks changed around the time they changed the speed of them, as @Thogard said.

I don't share this much, but I always make sure I've got effective roots/snares in my kit these days because I just can't land a HA if people are moving about too much and I refuse to build for sustaining with 0 heavy attacks