Vestige Difficulty Light Attack Bug

ilawana · April 14

I've run into a bug on PTS while testing Vestige Difficulty. Every so often when I am fighting random overland enemies, I get a large critical damage overtime strike from my light attacks while using a lightning staff. I'm on a High Elf Sorcerer. He is wearing Mighty Chudan, Crafty Alfiq, Wretched Vitality, and Death Dealer's Fete. I also have the weapon's expert star slotted in the Champion Points menu. So far, I have only experienced this while using light attacks on my lightning staff (which is on my front bar) and I haven't been able to recreate the effect with the frost staff on my backbar.

Here is a clip where I fight various enemies. Some of them are more difficult to kill, but most of them received a very large damage over time crit from my light attacks.

https://youtu.be/hNkf9pmdcfk

It doesn't always happen though. In this clip, I fight two of the same Trolls and only one of them gets the big crit.

https://youtu.be/dVxfUFvBPlg

ilawana · April 14

After jumping back in, I noticed a couple other things. I attempted again to recreate the situation with both a frost staff and an inferno staff on my front bar (note neither were pieces from the correct item set). However, I still only had this problem with the lightning staff. Also, I was able to trigger the large crit with both a light attack from the lightning staff and a cast of Crushing Shock with a lightning staff independently. Maybe an issue with a status effect? I also noticed that I'm not getting all three instances of damage from Crushing Shock. On my inferno staff, Crushing Shock only has one instance of damage while it only has two on my Lightning Staff. That being said, I think the lack of damage instances may be because the character's damage is too low, resulting in no damage when it's cut by 80% from vestige difficulty. Also, I don't know if it's an issue with the enemies themselves as I got into fights with a few and couldn't trigger the large crit until they were at half health, while other times it triggers instantly. Last thing, I did not purchase any of the class mastery passives yet on this character, so I assume they aren't involved either.

ZOS_Finn · April 14

Thanks for this report. We are looking into it.

Eternity_Was · April 14

Sounds like a weapon enhancement if it’s only coming from one weapon. Do you have another/different lightning staff to try?

ZOS_Finn · April 14

So, some questions from our testers if you could be so kind:

- What level were you? Champion Rank?
- What level is your gear?
- How were your Champion Points spent?
- What gear were you wearing exactly? Weight, set, enchants, etc?
- What weapons and weapon enchants did you have?
- How were your attribute points spent?
- Were you subclassing? If so, what subclasses and abilities?
- What mundus were you using?
- What abilities and gear did Bastian have equipped?

Thanks in advance!

ilawana · April 14

My setup:
- Level: Champion 3600
- Mundus: The Mage
- Champion Points:
Warfare Slotted: Deadly Aim, Weapons Expert, Master-at-Arms, Arcane Supremacy
Warfare Passive: Maxed
Fitness Slotted: Sustained by Suffering, Rejuvenation, Bastion, Survival Instincts
Fitness Passive: Maxed
Craft Slotted: Steed's Blessing, Gifted Rider
- All gear level 50/CP 160
- Gear:
Head: Mighty Chudan, Heavy, Epic, Truly Superb Glyph of Prismatic Defense, Infused
Shoulder: Mighty Chudan, Light, Epic, Truly Superb Glyph of Prismatic Defense, Well-fitted
Chest: Apparently none at the time of testing
Legs: Wretched Vitality, Light, Epic, Truly Superb Glyph of Prismatic Defense, Infused
Gloves: Crafty Alfiq, Light, Epic, Truly Superb Glyph of Prismatic Defense, Divines
Feet: Wretched Vitality, Medium, Epic, Truly Superb Glyph of Prismatic Defense, Divines
Waist: Wretched Vitality, Medium, Epic, Truly Superb Glyph of Prismatic Defense, Divines
Neck: Crafty Alfiq, Epic, Truly Superb Glyph of Increase Magical Harm, Arcane
Ring: Crafty Alfiq, Epic, Truly Superb Glyph of Increase Magical Harm, Arcane
Ring: Death Dealer's Fete, Mythic/Legendary, Truly Superb Glyph of Increase Magical Harm, Arcane
(Frontbar) Lightning Staff, Crafty Alfiq, Legendary, Truly Superb Glyph of Poison, Sharpened
(Backbar) Frost Staff, Wretched Vitality, Epic, Damage Magicka Poison IX, Powered
- Attributes: 64 Magicka, 0 Health, 0 Stamina
- Not subclassing and no points spent in class mastery

Bastian Hallix Setup (not really setup lol):
- Skills: Elemental Barricade, Drake's Blood, Starfall, Kindle, Scorching Strike
- Gear:
Head: Companion's Helmet, Normal, No Enchant
Chest: Companion's Robe, Superior, Augmented
Shoulder: Companion's Arm Crops, Superior, Quickened
Hands: Companion's Gauntlets, Superior, Bolstered
Waist: Companion's Belt, Normal, No Enchant
Feet: Companion's Sabatons, Fine, Bolstered
Legs: Companion's Guards, Normal, No Enchant
Neck: N/A
Ring: N/A
Ring: Companion's Ring, Fine, Vigorous
Weapon: Companion's Inferno Staff, Superior, Vigorous

I did get the bug to trigger after unsummoning Bastian. Also, the flame staff that I used for testing did not have a poison enchantment, but rather a weapon damage enchantment.

ilawana · April 14

I just tried to swap enchantments on my lightning staff and couldn't get the bug to trigger. However, when I switched it back, the bug didn't still trigger. Also, during my second testing session, I was getting completely different numbers on my crushing shock than I was earlier today. I was getting all 3 instances of damage between 1,000 and 3,000, whereas earlier I was only getting 1 to 2 instances of damage bellow 1,000. Not sure if that means all of the damage instances were experiencing issues earlier today or maybe the 80% damage done reduction isn't calculating properly now(?).

https://youtu.be/ceYU6GwgipU

ZOS_Finn · April 15

Heya, thanks again for the information. We are having a hard time reproducing these reports.

From our QA folks:

"Could you give us additional information prior to capturing those videos? Any detail will be of help, we've been unable to reproduce the large damage number being seen."

ilawana · April 15

Here's all of the information I can recall.

I opened the launcher and the PTS started updating. While the PTS was updating, I logged on to the main server for a few minutes. Once the PTS was updated, I opened it and created a new character to test out the werewolf updates. After that I switched to my sorcerer (the one from the video) and noticed the difficulty icon on the bottom of the load screen. Then I opened the character menu and read the descriptions of the difficulty settings. I fought a few things on Master difficulty before deciding to try the Vestige difficulty, and after switching to Vestige difficulty, I noticed the bug within the first couple of enemies I killed.

I do remember that while I was still on Master difficulty, I selected the change difficulty button a few times before it dawned on me that I needed to select a difficulty before selecting the change difficulty button. So, I was on Master, pressed change difficulty a couple of times, then pressed Vestige and pressed change difficulty again. Tested it out, grabbed some videos, and closed the game and launcher.

The second time I went to try it out, the launcher itself had an update. That updated and I opened the PTS again. This time I could access new Tamriel Tome and all that, but I couldn't reproduce the bug.

I did not swap around any build pieces (gear, skills, etc) before testing the difficulties. I logged on and immediately noticed the difficulty and began testing that.

Maddjuju · April 16

I have to say that I was getting some interesting poison ticks while on vestige difficulty when I first signed on to PTS. When I first logged in, I saw it was set to Master. I changed it to Vestige and started to see those numbers so started logging. Once I zoned into a delve, I stopped seeing that. Was unable to recreate the rest of the time on that character.

I logged onto a second character and repeated the same thing in the another zone. It was set on Master when first logging in. Fought a few things with nothing of note. Switch to Vestige and then started to see those number spikes again but with killer blade instead of poison. When I ported to a different zone, it stopped happening.

[EDIT] In my grogginess last night, I forgot to say that 'yes', the rest of the attacks during that time on Vestige before zoning were very hit and miss about having any damaged logged on them as seen with the killer blade log screen shot.