PTS Update 46 - Bug Reports for Combat Balance & Abilities

ZOS_Kevin · April 14

Please report any issues you run into involving combat and gameplay balance or abilities in this thread. Please give us as much information as possible, including screenshots and/or video if applicable. Thank you!

WuffyCerulei · April 14

I'm having an issue with damage skills not hitting the target after being cast. They do the whole animation, but they simply don't hit after. It seems to be random as well. I'll post a video showing underneath. I am subclassing with the Warden Animal Companions line here as well. It's most noticable with Daedric prey, Crystal Shards, and Cliffracer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkmE8RmZwW8

ssewallb14_ESO · April 14

There is a "queuing" bug with Relentless Focus when weaved with lightning staff heavy attacks.

The animation will fail to play when the ability is cast, however it will then fire in place of the next skill animation after the following heavy attack.

ie. Heavy Attack->Relentless Focus->Heavy Attack->(Any Skill)

The Relentless Focus animation will not play when cast, but it will play when (Any Skill) is cast, seemingly overwriting that skill's animation.

EDIT: This appears to be happening with many skills (Wall of Elements, Boundless Storm, Crit Surge, Incapacitating Strike, probably more)

MurkyWetWolf198 · April 14

There are good dozen or so posts saying that Solar Barrage’s 5% damage increase is bugged. Apparently, it doesn’t go away when the ability ends, and can stack with itself without limit, leading to a huge inflation in DPS when testing Dawn’s Wrath’s skills.

RandomKodiak · April 14

Hurricane animation stays on even when timer runs out have log or zone to remove

Malprave · April 15

Radiant oppression beam animation stays on indefinitely but the damage stops after five seconds.
PS- it causes the game to crash as well

acastanza_ESO · April 15

My Arcanist's beam appears to have been stolen

silky_soft · April 15

I tested from pts to live same character, same skills, same mobs. Wanted to test out the melee light attack change.

Travelling knife with multi target lags out when you try to weave it. You lock up and just have to spam hope it comes back. The mobs still hit you and you can move. Just no skilling.

I feel it needs an animation adjustment similar to the point of fire in the destructive reach animation.

Renato90085 · April 15

Stampede bug: test my nb parse build and got some rng 30sec error ,i only can move in there 30sec
my friend have same bug
https://youtu.be/dIbvaydKgUY

Darth_LucSky · April 15

acastanza_ESO wrote: »

My Arcanist's beam appears to have been stolen

Can confirm, the same is happening to me. No beam shows up. I'm a Necro main with Arcanist/NB subclasses.

Malprave · April 15

Getting stuck in stampede animation probably fifty percent of the time on my dk. He just holds that pose for about a minute and I run around like an idiot. Well, I do that anyway but now I do it with a sword over my head.

Malprave · April 15

Can also confirm issues with traveling knife and fatecarver.

Djennku · April 15

There is a HUGE bug with the new update where you cannot 'HA weave' at all. I tried queueing up a skill like usual, but instead of firing when the heavy pops, my character just stands there doing nothing nor does she start another heavy attack. The skills completely fail to fire and it acts like you never casted one to begin with.

React · April 16

Skills are constantly failing to fire. Both while weaving normally with just light attacks, but at an extremely high rate when bash/block weaving.

In the video below, I weave a Light attack -> Concealed weapon -> Bash 13 times consecutively. Out of those 13 weaves, the concealed weapon fails to fire 8 times. I have included an input overlay to show that I am indeed hitting the button, but you can also see the icon depressing on the skill bar within the UI as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7bcImtUYl4

silky_soft · April 16

That looks exactly like when you are playing on 240ms like me on live. But it's even worse as melee on pts.

Darkness734 · April 16

Werewolves ferocious roar doesn't apply faster heavy attack to the first heavy attack. This has been a bug for years. Werewolves don't benefit from weapon passives and have nothing to show for it.

Overall werewolves are seriously underpowered and are in need of a buff given that multiclassing will over-buff anyone using it. Multiclassing will further disenfranchise anyone who attempts to play werewolf as it is now a severe detriment to even attempt to play one.
I, as well as the five remaining people playing werewolf, would and should expect serious buffs coming in the next expansion for werewolves.

You may ask why you haven't heard from any other players except for me, well it's because they've tried getting attention regarding issues for werewolves for what seems like years and have been repeatedly ignored.

I will continue my crusade bringing attention to this.

aestrivex · April 16

I am getting this weird visual stuff on my arcanist while standing around. Sometimes it's moving epileptically like this, other times its a stationary glow, a similar visual effect to when the player is using fatecarver. When I move my character around, it stops being quite so epileptic.

https://youtu.be/GOGPlEYDOBI

Steps to to produce this: No idea, I did a lot of parsing, testing out different setups with subclassing. My setup is Herald of the Tome + Assassination + Grave Lord, if that matters.

Also, it seems like the AOE banner skill is not working; i.e., not applying any added damage to AOE attacks.

Avran_Sylt · April 16

Elemental Weapon lacks an animation with:
Bows
Greatswords
Staves
one-handed
dual-wield
assuming it just isn't using its animation.

elinien · April 23

I don't know if this is a bug or choice, but the animation for Mage's Fury is different now, and I don't recall seeing that in the patch notes? Character used to raise their arm and now instead it moves forward. Old one was better... tbh.

FoJul · April 24

Sometimes if you double cast assassin's will, the 2nd bow just shoots with no target. Making it fly off into space.

evLRise · April 26

The Necro Goliath ult says it makes bash attacks AoE in a cone. But it doesn't. Bashes are just regular bashes while ult is active.

sans-culottes · April 26

Sacrificial Bones is STILL labeled “Stalking Blastbones.” Has anyone looked at this yet? It’s been how long?

xylena_lazarow · April 26

Rushing Agony still pulls through walls, pulls beyond its radius, and violates the z-axis.

NB's Veiled Strike and its morphs register the damage before the animation plays, often making it look like you're being hit from across the screen, this bug has been around a long time.

silky_soft · April 27

Cloak still deactivates from some status effect combination and some projectiles. Posted in wrong update.

silky_soft · April 27

Constant stuck in breakfree animation unble to cancel it. I have to watch the full animation. This is in pve and pvp. I'd be nice to see the animation removed or put to the lowest priority in the que.

oussebon · April 28

This seemed like the closest bug report category fit.

The animation for jumping with 2 handed melee weapons is broken. The left arm detaches from the weapon, goes upside down, clips into the body, and sort of flaps around limply.

Video if helpful: https://imgur.com/a/LlMtAtW

It doesn't do this on live.

Tested and happens every time with female Breton, female Orc, male Orc - presumably everyone else too? but didn't test further races. Happens with all 2H melee, but not staves or dual wield.
(edit for missing word)

tomofhyrule · May 8

Not an in-game bug, but something to watch for when posting the live Patch notes.

It's said in the 11.0.3 Patch notes for Dragonknight/Draconic Power:

Dark Talons: Reduced the cost of this ability and the Burning Talons morph to 3150, down from 3780.

Choking Talons: The cost reduction bonus from this morph now takes the cost to 3240, down from 3510.

That's a typo in the patch notes. Dark/Burning talons cost 3510 in game, not 3150.

evLRise · May 8

Not sure if this is intended, but it definitely feels like a bug.

Arcanist Fated Fortune passive says: Warp fate when you generate or consume Crux, increasing your Critical Damage and Critical Healing by 12% for 7 seconds.

This only works if you generate Crux while you're not at 3 Crux already. This feels a bit limiting with subclassing in mind, as it forces me to use the heal beam as a healer / damage beam OR magicka tentacles for a DD.

Shouldn't the passive work when I refresh ( generate ) a new Crux while I'm already at 3?

Every other crit passive in game has a very straightforward condition.

While an assassination / aedric spear / grave lord ability is slotted OR per Animal Companion ability slotted.

The wording on this one dictates a rather forceful approach on what skills you need to slot ( I.E, you're forced to play damage beam on a Stam Damage Dealer, or Healing Beam on any kind of healer - PvE aside, these 2 skills are also awful in PvP due to interrupts )

YandereGirlfriend · May 8

evLRise wrote: »

Not sure if this is intended, but it definitely feels like a bug.

Arcanist Fated Fortune passive says: Warp fate when you generate or consume Crux, increasing your Critical Damage and Critical Healing by 12% for 7 seconds.

This only works if you generate Crux while you're not at 3 Crux already. This feels a bit limiting with subclassing in mind, as it forces me to use the heal beam as a healer / damage beam OR magicka tentacles for a DD.

Shouldn't the passive work when I refresh ( generate ) a new Crux while I'm already at 3?

Every other crit passive in game has a very straightforward condition.

While an assassination / aedric spear / grave lord ability is slotted OR per Animal Companion ability slotted.

The wording on this one dictates a rather forceful approach on what skills you need to slot ( I.E, you're forced to play damage beam on a Stam Damage Dealer, or Healing Beam on any kind of healer - PvE aside, these 2 skills are also awful in PvP due to interrupts )

Same issue exists here with Cruxweaver Armor. If you're sitting max stacks and proc the passive does nothing. Arcanist is hardly the most needy class for subclassing buffs but it points to the fundamental Arcanist problem that there simply are not enough decent Crux-spenders, an issue that definitely is exacerbated with subclassing.

silky_soft · May 17

silky_soft wrote: »

I tested from pts to live same character, same skills, same mobs. Wanted to test out the melee light attack change.

Travelling knife with multi target lags out when you try to weave it. You lock up and just have to spam hope it comes back. The mobs still hit you and you can move. Just no skilling.

I feel it needs an animation adjustment similar to the point of fire in the destructive reach animation.

I'm still experiencing this. But since then I have been testing various beam builds. I also now get stuck in dual wield wind up. I have been up to 5s I'm stuck. I can't even bar swap. It's like Im in that lazy staggered animation that has no place in this game. I'm only fighting the trial atro. 250ms is my in game ping.

xylena_lazarow · May 18

Players are firing the Grim Focus spectral bow twice in a row at me! Yes that was satire, but I'll bet all my potatoes the devs get plenty of "bug reports" regarding the double spectral bow from PvP'ers who didn't read the notes. The resulting manic gameplay and sudden deaths are definitely going to feel like it just has to be a bug, right? Right?