hello Chip!

@ZOS_GinaBruno
@ZOS_BrianWheeler

That can’t be right. We reported that issue on PTS, there’s no way Zeni would have failed to address it, and let a known bug like that make it into the live patch. They certainly don’t have a history of doing exactly that.

I have noticed that if you bar swap immediately into a block, there is a much different delay than before the changes and it will show you blocking, but the game does not register it. This basically makes it so that you cannot reliably run a lightning staff as a tank on your back bar, because you cannot swap quickly enough into a front bar block in response to incoming heavy hits. Instead, you have to block before swapping, this requiring a back bar frost staff.

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Sahidom wrote: »

I've noticed that my drops when my Stamina drops below a certain percentage remaining. So, if your getting hit frequently than your block falls off when your stamina hits that remainder threshold.

This maybe working, as designed by the devs. e.g. you cant block damage without resources to pay for the block cost.

It seems there's a floating remainder threshold on the character"s stamina before reaching an absolute zero resource. The block stamina cost has the damage received coefficient to calculate stamina cost per damage effect i.e. heavy hits cost more than light damage hits.

So, the character's stamina gets consumed by light-medium damage. Then an incoming heavy hit is calculated, and the server determined the character does not have enough stamina to mitigate that attack than your block drops.

it has always been the case, the only difference now is manual, as you have to re apply mouse right-click.
before this patch a lot of tanks were used to hold right click the majority of the fight, and they did just that, by holding right click then, when you ran out of stamina the block fell off, but when you filled your stamina the blocking *automatically* went back on, that make it so that a tank can virtually hold right-click the entire fight without letting go, and the block will be up when there is stamina present, and will be down when there isn't.
NOW every time your stamina is low, the blocking drops, but YOU have to release right click, wait half a sec, and then apply right click again, every single time.
this has resulted in endless new cases that the tanks "could swear that they were blocking" but they died anyway.

There is also the cherry on top: in some instances, there is sometimes a visual bug that causes the block animation to remain active even though the block is not active, this can occur when the case described above of the stamina running out while holding right-click happens.

The result: you are holding right-click, your stamina is full, even the animation sometimes show that you are blocking, you have NO WAY of knowing if the block is actually active or not, do they expect me to remember that 1 minute ago my stamina went low for a second and that caused my block to drop behind the scenes? why do i need to reapply right click over and over again if i'm already holding it? I died so many times since this change it's just insane.

P.S: this change does not effect those tanks who only block heavy attacks and then release block, these guys are use to reapply right-click as a force of habit.
i am advocating for the other 50% of the tank population that are used to hold right-click constantly while facing a challenging foe, not all of us are extreme multi-taskers, and we are used to tanking this way for the past 5 years, this change HURTS us.

@ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_BrianWheeler
Who done need to talk to in order to get a response about broken block. This is becoming a serious issue in running content. It always shows we are blocking but we get hit as if we are not. We are loosing the ability to complete content that we normally can get thru with little issues. Please give us some information about this.

I have seen tanks dying to a single heavy attack with full stam. You have to release and reapply block every 5ish seconds. It will show you are blocking but it has stopped performing. It has nothing to with your remaining resources. It does not stay applied. In fights where mechanics are over 4 seconds or you have multiple adds hitting hard you are unable to block long enough to survive. This is game breaking. Lower dps so we can't burn fast enough to prevent such things from happening. Make it so tanks cant block. What are we supposed to do. Just die over and over never getting content complete. No deaths are damn near impossible now. Now 50% of achievements or accomplishments are only available to the elite. The fact that zos wont answer anything to do with this issue is the most infuriating part.