Vampire Skill Tree Bugged

MeIkor · April 2014

In the vampire skill tree a few things are broken.
-Poison Mist is not ticking the correct amount of times. The tooltip states it suppose to do damage every 0.5 seconds for the 4 second duration. This means it should hit 8 times. At this time it only is hitting 3 times.
- Bat Swarm Ultimate is no longer getting a reduced cost from higher vampire stages.
-Vampire stage tooltip is randomly reseting. Even though the actual cost is correct what the tool tip states is the cost as if I was stage 1 vampire.

Please Post if you are having similar issues and state anything I have missed.

tokyov · April 2014

This has been bugged for 4-5 months, since I join the psijic order. Good luck getting it fixed.

MeIkor · April 2014

I know Poison Mist has been bugged forever, but the other 2 are new ones. Bat Swarm Ultimate used to be reduced by vampire Stage. Plus in beta only a few people from PTS could report it if we get mass awareness and lots of people submit report bugs be hard to ignore.

MeIkor · April 2014

I don't know what the deal is either. Poison Mist has been bugged in the PTS now for a few months without a fix and I have submitted a few tickets concerning different issues with the vampire and haven't even received a reply to let me know they have seen my tickets. Seems like they are shying away from Vamp/Werewolf if they can't fix one skill that has been reported broken for months and now broke 2 new things.

MeIkor · April 2014

Would love to hear from a ZOS representative about this to let me know they are aware of the issue since none of my tickets get responded to.

MeIkor · April 2014

Are there no other vampire players even aware of this?

MeIkor · April 2014

Customer Support Ticket: 140412-097600

MeIkor · April 2014

Not even a response to let me know my ticket was acknowledged in a few days is a little disheartening

Neo · April 2014

Who cares? vampires suck anyway. You'll just get owned in pvp lol

elxdark · April 2014

Neo wrote: »

Who cares? vampires suck anyway. You'll just get owned in pvp lol

Many people care, and no Vampires don't suck whatever you say.

Also they don't get owned in PvP as you say.

Dunno why people like to make false assumptions.

ItsMeToo · April 2014

It was a joke.

MeIkor · April 2014

Go watch this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLM3f2pSjXw
You can basically mitigate all the extra fire damage you take by just being a Dunmer with FR trait or by applying a FR enchant to a ring in addition to wearing some Light armor with passive to the point of being a regular player.

As for the skills. Poison Mist has been broken since December and has been reported multiple times even in PTS. I don't see why this isn't an easy fix. Make it hit the 8 times it's suppose to no 3.
I don't know what the deal is with Bat Swarm Ult not being affected by Vampire Stages anymore. It did before random maintenance and nothing in patch notes about change so I am assuming this is unintended bug that needs to be fixed.
The tooltip randomly resetting for magika cost of abilities related to vampire stages is an annoyance but at least I am still getting the correct cost.

Attorneyatlawl · April 2014

ItsMeToo wrote: »

It was a joke.

Are you the guy who said that, and can verify it? Nope. It looked like a completely serious (and ill-informed) statement to me. Vampirism doesn't fit with most builds and play, but the ones it does.... hoo boy is it a good one.

MeIkor · April 2014

I just don't understand the complete ignorance of the ability. It has been a documented bug since the PTS and even thought I report it each day I never received a response from Dev team letting me know they have seen it or that it is a known bug they are working on. Been a few days and nothing. Yet that same day when i reported a Gold Spammer i got a response about that.

Attorneyatlawl · April 2014

@Melkor, I too have reported it quite a number of times along with other bugs. At this point it's probably a matter of triage more than anything else, and unfortunately there are some pretty big ones such as Twin Blade and Blunt not functioning for daggers, poison mist being bugged out, main quest blockers, disappearing banks/items & bank slot resets, mails (at this point extremely rarely) being duplicated by the server, etc. The best we can do here is hope they fix their "stuff" asap since more attention will finally be brought on these real issues rather than "I don't want someone else to have the option of a minimap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" cries from a vocal minority.

MeIkor · April 2014

Well it was even an issue in PTS so you think that would of been enough time for them to come up with a fix before all the stuff going on now happened. Also the issue that Bat Swarm isn't being affecrted by Vampire Stages anymore is a big annoyance. Speaking of Triage, apparently ignoring my bug reports about the issue and others since PTS is ok, but when I report a gold spammer it get's a response that day. I would at least like a response letting me know they have documented the issue or it is a known issue that they are working on.

MeIkor · April 2014

Well I guess this is not going to get seen because of the maintenance and everyone has to make a new thread to complain about it bumping this into oblivion <_<

dbennett707cub18_ESO · April 2014

Well, to be fair, I was concerned about the bat swarm not working with stage 4 reduction. But now I'm more concerned about my items/skill points being deleted.

Draex · April 2014

Also slightly bugged with Vampire;

Midnight Drain sometimes it takes you 2-3 times of spamming for it to actually go off. The animation lags and is behind almost always.

Unnatural Resistance Passive, doesn't show in character attribute screen as having any different effect on health regeneration effects from stages 2-4.

Dark Stalker, seems to work more during the day time and almost never at night time. It will work around 25% of the time all together. You can go mob to mob and it will come on and off in stealth.

Clouding Swarm, somehow NPC's are unaffected by your being invisible even if you quit attacking all together. They will always see and hit you while using this ability.

Almost half of the Vamp skills are broken, and have been for a long long time. Fix please.

MeIkor · April 2014

Speaking of drain issues. There is an animation bug that if someone kills my target before I finish my drain I'm stuck in the animation until I do another skill.

Medwin · April 2014

Also with the cost thing, you need the stage one amount to cast the spell but it will use the actual stage amount of resource.

MeIkor · April 2014

If that's true maybe that's why Bat Swarm Ult is not working correctly. I requires the normal amount to use, but since it's an all in move it just uses the initial use to activate and doesn't take into account the reduced cost.

kameekazee · April 2014

in case of the ultimate this is well not really what i had skilled for :P but the stealth movement ability is also buggy - it just happens to dissapear at random when you die - a relog fixes it but thats not always a good thing to do in good old cyrodill

MeIkor · April 2014

I hope you all have been reporting this. The only way it will be brought to their attention, especially with people reporting every lil hiccup their game has is to get mass reports about the issue

MeIkor · April 2014

New Ticket Number 140413-066300

sinz_xb16_ESO · April 2014

Dark Stalker passive is also bugged. Speed bonus works at first, but breaks as soon as player dies and respawns. Only relogging helps.

sinz_xb16_ESO · April 2014

Kinda sucks we put so much time in becoming a vampire and leveling up the skill tree, only to find out over half the skills/passives are not working correctly.

And finding out today that this skill tree has apparantly been bugged for months now is also very worrying to say the least. Might as well have them remove the skill tree from the game entirely if they don't care about fixing it.

MeIkor · April 2014

I know a few of these are old bugs that still havent been fixed. But the Ult cost not being reduced, tooltip error and few other are newer ones since it has gone live. So they are actually breaking more of them <_<

sinz_xb16_ESO · April 2014

The Drain Essence ability will not fire off at all if your target has a cc immunity up or has a natural immunity to cc.

This may be working as intended, but imo a better solution would be to have the damage/heal portion still trigger so it doesn't make the ability 100% useless in alot of situations.

MeIkor · April 2014

Still no response from a ZOS representative. This is getting ridiculous. Been almost a week and no reply. The only thing I received was an automated email but it was about items being lost and bank items

LazerusKI · April 2014

found a few ones myself.
to quote my other post:

LazerusKI wrote: »

the list that i submitted was like this:
1) Dark Stalker Effects ends on death an reapplys only with a zone change or relog. POSSIBLY this affects also the medium armor passive.
2) Drain-Ability is highly bugged.
- sometimes it has a very long delay
- wont work against knocked-down or stunned targets
- use against a trashmob (squirrels, rats etc) causes the animation to "freeze"
- wont work against "unstunable" mobs. should be changed, the penality of "once per target" is allready enough.
- can randomly break the effect (like no line of sight)
3) As a NB you can feed on humanoid bosses! thats somehow great, because its like a few seconds stun and full regeneration for us...but i dont think this was intended. how does it work? just use cloak, sneak behind your target, it counts as "out of combat and hidden" so you can feed on him.
4) the "starter vampirism" that flags you for the quest never ends. this causes that you can accept the quest over and over again.

http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/70802/ - Dark Stalker bug
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/73666/ - Drain skill bug

not to mention that the WW is broken as hell too...and he is even weaker, because none of his passives work without the transform equipped...
they should really do something, and that fast...otherwise there will be a lot of people who jsut ignore these possibilitys because they are broken...and as soon as they get fixed, the problems with scammers will be even higher...