Long Time Lightning Staff Bugs

skinnycheeks · November 2017

@YoloWizard reported this before but it doesn't look like there was any response. Looks like it has been around for a while and is way worse when in trial scenarios due to input lag. I will copy the main points mentioned.

Lightning Heavy Attack Issues

Getting stuck in the heavy attack animation when you want it to stop.
Performing a heavy attack sometimes makes your character slow as hell. Can be fixed by doing another heavy attack (I point towards the sky when I do it) or roll dodging.
It can prevents you from dropping your projected ground target abilities (Liquid Lightning, Eruption). Can be fixed by doing another heavy attack.
The animation of the heavy attack can be desynced with the actual damage output which causes a huge disruption to the rotation.

PLEASE update us if this is being worked on. So frustrating to have worked so hard on a rotation but always have to deal with these bugs.

Ankael07 · November 2017

Theres one more bug that I noticed after CWC. Cant perform a heavy attack at all and only relogging seems to fix it.

skinnycheeks · November 2017

It's kinda crazy how big of an issue this bug actually is and I haven't heard any response on it.

skinnycheeks · November 2017

Anyone heard any news on this?

vovus69 · November 2017

You know the answer - "we are always listening to you"... They never told you that they will fix it

I found a workaround - when you want to go out of this bug - roll dodge. After that you will get control over char again. It is ***, but it works for me at least.

-vovus

skinnycheeks · November 2017

Thanks @vovus69 . I’ll try that out. Shouldn’t have to rely on stuff like that though.

skinnycheeks · December 2017

skinnycheeks · December 2017

I think the 3rd point is the most common and problematic (for me anyways) as it really screws up your rotation and damage output.

Jaimeh · December 2017

I've experienced all these bugs, and annoyingly enough, the slow one doesn't always gets fixed for me when I heavy attack again. I also get stuck heavy attacking on my restoration staff a lot of the time. Liquid lightning actually being cast is hit or miss these days. Thank you for mentioning these, they really mess up a rotation, especially on a double lightning staff character.

Apache_Kid · December 2017

When will these bugs be fixed? Been happening for way too long. We need information on this.

Morgul667 · December 2017

Those are boring bugs:/ hopethey get fixed

skinnycheeks · December 2017

@ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_JessicaFolsom @ZOS_RichLambert Could any of you speak to any of these being known issues that are being looked at? All 4 bullet points are still present and very problematic.

skinnycheeks · December 2017

skinnycheeks · January 2018

Still haven’t seen anything on this... Please look into it

Apache_Kid · January 2018

skinnycheeks wrote: »

Still haven’t seen anything on this... Please look into it

I second this.

Gnortranermara · January 2018

Add this to the many ignored bug reports for serious issues (chat channel bugs, for instance) that ZOS simply ignores because their cost-benefit analysis for investing in new camels appears to be more profitable.

Apache_Kid · January 2018

Any update on this? @ZOS_GinaBruno

LiquidPony · January 2018

Heavy attacking is problematic across weapon types ... it's not just limited to lightning staves (although the "slow bug" is certainly more common there). I love getting the slow bug when I'm on my way out to run backyard in MoL or on my way up to run up top on Pinnacle Factotum.

With DW, pretty much every boss fight or raid parse, I hit a point in my rotation where:

* Holding heavy attack does nothing, I just stand there
* Re-pressing heavy attack executes a heavy attack but then my subsequent animations are horked up and, for instance, I can't heavy weave into Rending Slashes/Deadly Cloak (I just do a full heavy attack animation and then stand there again)
* Usually bar-swapping fixes it but obviously having to throw in an extra bar swap in the middle of a rotation is silly

I've filed multiple bugs for the issue, including videos of it happening, and never got so much as a "we see the issue, thanks for taking the time to submit this bug" from ZOS.

In other words, don't hold your breath waiting for a response from ZOS. The lightning heavy attack bugs have been around for as long as I can remember and the DW animations have been busted since Morrowind. It's just that no one used to care as much before ZOS decided that all builds needed to be heavy attack builds.

Tsar_Gekkou · February 2018

I still get stuck in heavy attacks frequently

skinnycheeks · February 2018

LiquidPony wrote: »

Heavy attacking is problematic across weapon types ... it's not just limited to lightning staves (although the "slow bug" is certainly more common there). I love getting the slow bug when I'm on my way out to run backyard in MoL or on my way up to run up top on Pinnacle Factotum.

With DW, pretty much every boss fight or raid parse, I hit a point in my rotation where:

* Holding heavy attack does nothing, I just stand there
* Re-pressing heavy attack executes a heavy attack but then my subsequent animations are horked up and, for instance, I can't heavy weave into Rending Slashes/Deadly Cloak (I just do a full heavy attack animation and then stand there again)
* Usually bar-swapping fixes it but obviously having to throw in an extra bar swap in the middle of a rotation is silly

I've filed multiple bugs for the issue, including videos of it happening, and never got so much as a "we see the issue, thanks for taking the time to submit this bug" from ZOS.

In other words, don't hold your breath waiting for a response from ZOS. The lightning heavy attack bugs have been around for as long as I can remember and the DW animations have been busted since Morrowind. It's just that no one used to care as much before ZOS decided that all builds needed to be heavy attack builds.

Yeah, I've definitely noticed it some with other weapons too, but not near to the extreme as with running double lightning staves. On my stam DK, every once in a while the heavy attack gets bugged out during a trial. With my mag sorc, it's like once every 4 rotations or so nearly. It's really bad. It's actually why I switched and started playing my stam dk, I was just too frustrated to keep messing with it.

Zer0oo · February 2018

I have a dream that one day they will finally manage to fix this bug.

Tsar_Gekkou · March 2018

This glitch is still happening. Any word on a fix?

JmJ · March 2018

Is sorcerer liquid lightning bug related to this somehow ? That skill has been quite bad for ages, and now it's also common that this skill cant be casted at all sometimes. Also i have more often now found my self in loop casting those lightning heavy attack's.

skinnycheeks · March 2018

JmJ wrote: »

Is sorcerer liquid lightning bug related to this somehow ? That skill has been quite bad for ages, and now it's also common that this skill cant be casted at all sometimes. Also i have more often now found my self in loop casting those lightning heavy attack's.

Very much related. And it sucks. I wish they would do something about it

ForsakenSin · March 2018

aaa yhea place down liquid lightning you just see circle and nothing happens bar switch place the liquid lightning and then you see the circle and it activates nearly every time there is a bug

Casandra · August 2018

So In Cyrodiil the only way we have found to fix it is to go into a delve.. you don't even have to attack anything. Just walk in and out and the lightning staff bug (can't heavy attack) is gone... its fixed!

So we were wondering if resetting the instance by going into the delve is what is fixing it. You can't always log out to fix it if you are in Cyrodiil as you may not get back into Vivec and you have to reque!