Blade of woe and shadowstrike CP star fail way too often

Foxtrot39 · December 2022

Blade of woe wil often enough fail to execute after activating making you just "teleport" behind the enemies and pulling you out of stealth without ever killing the target

Shadowstrike was meant to allow to chain small groups, yet the "distraction" part of it barely work with enemies attacking you during the animation potentialy charging an uppercut or the spin to win attack that is guaranteed to land if not moving far away enough

Those attack will nearly always land before you move out of their range, pulling you out of stealth and preventing you to re-use blade of woe, defeating the entire purpose of that slotable CP star and this happen happen nearly all the time

There is already a massive 90% xp reduction on kill using it + the need to be out of combat for the initial use along a massive restriction of valid targets that make it only usable vs trash tier enemies that fall in the "alive humanoid" category

Would it be too much asked that a gimmick and its associated CP star, that is the main gameplay mechanic & selling point of a whole DLC, to work properly? Its hard to even RP with it with those issues

Snamyap · December 2022

I don't think I have ever had blade of woe fail. 🤷

Necrotech_Master · December 2022

the only time ive had blade of woe fail is if the target is moving, or you are not on "level ground" with the target (such as if the target is on a stairwell and you are at the top of the stairwell while still within LOS and in range

ive never even considered using that cp slottable for the reasons you mention (blade does not work well when dealing with mobs, and reduces your xp gain being big detractors)

Foxtrot39 · December 2022

Necrotech_Master wrote: »

the only time ive had blade of woe fail is if the target is moving, or you are not on "level ground" with the target (such as if the target is on a stairwell and you are at the top of the stairwell while still within LOS and in range

ive never even considered using that cp slottable for the reasons you mention (blade does not work well when dealing with mobs, and reduces your xp gain being big detractors)

Cyrodiil NPC still giving me nearly 1k xp per kill while I was sky shard hunting on my alt

Also can confirm the uneven terrain part, all my fails came from attempting to use BoW on an slight incline (notably delves)

Cp star would work if only you became invisible after 1.5-2s of using it instead of 1.5-2s AFTER the animation ended

doabhi · April 2023

can confirm this may be broken after a recent patch, used to use it often and would always be placed in stealth when using it, now if you use it you get agro while still in assassination cam/animation despite shadowstrike being slotted and maxed and no invisibility triggers as the result of being attacked.