Yep ballista definitely causing desyncs, happened 3 times to me tonight .

Honestly it seems like any skill that causes a cc or knockback is buggy to me, both to use and to be hit with. Sometimes its fine, other times your leap animates but you didn't actually leap, or you can't break free, or you hear the warden spamming shock clench and then all at once your gone.

Pretty irritating that i rarely die to my own mistakes, its usually lag, desyncs or glitches.

I simply canceled my paid subscription at this point - the game is broken like never before, good luck waiting another year for fixes that will never happen...

RebornRequiem wrote: »

Yeah happened to me today too. I went instanly down from like 60% to zero and had no hard hitting abilities nor dots on me. and the balllista was used againist me like 30 seconds before I died. Either that or living dark...

The revised target for Living Dark is the character who casts it. Even the original Eclipse spell does not inflict any damage on the targeted opponent. Instead, it becomes a "special effect" utility spell that changes with each Direct Damage attack which the enveloped character makes. From Patch Notes 5.5.1 (Scalebreaker & Update 23):

Eclipse: Reworked this ability and its morphs so you will now envelop your target in a sphere of darkness for 4 seconds, which harms them anytime they use a Direct Damage attack. These abilities can now only be active on one target at a time.

Their first attack causes the sphere to hinder them, reducing their Movement Speed by 30% for 4 seconds.
Their second attack causes the sphere to entangle them, immobilizing them for 3 seconds.
Their third attack causes the sphere to smother them, stunning them for 3 seconds.
These effect can only occur once every second.
Note that the sphere can no longer be CC broken early, but can still be cleansed.

Total Dark (morph):

Renamed this morph to Living Dark.
You now envelop yourself in darkness for 4 seconds, which protects you. Anytime an enemy hits you with a Direct Damage attack, they are immobilized for 3 seconds and you are healed.
This heal value has been decreased by approximately 66% compared to the original value, but can now occur every half second rather than every .75 seconds.

Unstable Core (morph):

Each time the sphere activates on the attacker, they will take damage. This damage increases based on the stage the sphere is currently in.

So, Unstable Core is the one that we want for DPS, but its description is incomplete and not very informative.

The description for Eclipse poses several questions about the duration of each of the respective "effects", relative to the 4-second duration of the Eclipse itself. Notes:

1. The design concept assumes that the target will attack an opponent. That may be valid for NPCs, whether Bosses are immune to Eclipse and/or to its morphs. But, gear procs aside, is it a valid assumption for PvP?
2. What happens if the enveloped character executes a Dodge Roll from their current location?

IMHO, the conversion of Total Dark > Living Dark into a damage shield is a waste since there is (or was?) a damage shield available from the same skill line, and from other skill lines, too.

Personally, I have decided that I must re-spec each of my four characters to take changes like these into account. Two are Sorcerers, two are Templars. One Templar is a Healer, the other is mostly Stamina DPS. One Sorcerer primarily uses Lightning (Shock) and the other primarily summons Familiars.

Choosing Skills and re-allocating Skill Points to them is a time-consuming chore in this context. Not much fun at all, really. And we know that the ZOS developers will continue to tinker with them indefinitely, because they would rather do that than find and correct bugs.