Maintenance for the week of August 31:
• ESO Store and Account System for maintenance – September 3, 10:00AM EDT (14:00 UTC) - 12:00PM EDT (16:00 UTC)

Onslaught broken crit chance

Zyaneth_Bal
Zyaneth_Bal
✭✭✭✭✭
It’s not supposed to grant guaranteed crit chance when battle spirit is active and for other attacks it doesn’t but onslaught hit itself is almost always a crit. In the past several weeks I only remember seeing it not crit once. Crit chance on onslaught in pvp is definitely broken.

@ZOS_Kevin this does put onslaught in an unhealthy place, it already ignores penetration making it hit hard and grants the same effect for a duration which is incredibly strong. But being a guaranteed crit on top enables way too much burst with some builds being able to land 20k+ hits and most builds utilizing it reliably land 10-20k.
It’s only the opening hit that takes away half or more of targets health, followed by another huge burst of damage as the buff is active.
Edited by Zyaneth_Bal on August 19, 2026 2:17AM
  • Firstmep
    Firstmep
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    ✭✭✭✭
    I've made a similar thread the other but yes, it seems very bugged. So much so that it crits against blocking targets as well.
    I stopped using it for now since I don't feel comfortable using a skill that's seemingly doing more damage than it's intended.

    Edit: the non crit portion is the splash damage which isn't guaranteed to crit even with the bug.
    Edited by Firstmep on August 19, 2026 5:56AM
  • Zyaneth_Bal
    Zyaneth_Bal
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    Firstmep wrote: »
    I've made a similar thread the other but yes, it seems very bugged. So much so that it crits against blocking targets as well.
    I stopped using it for now since I don't feel comfortable using a skill that's seemingly doing more damage than it's intended.

    Edit: the non crit portion is the splash damage which isn't guaranteed to crit even with the bug.

    Yes, I just thought it might help creating a thread in this section too.
  • Firstmep
    Firstmep
    ✭✭✭✭✭
    ✭✭✭✭
    Firstmep wrote: »
    I've made a similar thread the other but yes, it seems very bugged. So much so that it crits against blocking targets as well.
    I stopped using it for now since I don't feel comfortable using a skill that's seemingly doing more damage than it's intended.

    Edit: the non crit portion is the splash damage which isn't guaranteed to crit even with the bug.

    Yes, I just thought it might help creating a thread in this section too.

    Ah nice. Thanks! Really hope we get a fix soon, I do love the skill but I don't want to use for now.
  • RedMamba
    RedMamba
    ✭✭✭
    @ZOS_Kevin - It's 100% crit chance currently in PvP environments when using Onslaught and is a bug.
  • ZOS_CouchTato
    After review, we have decided to close this thread as there is a similar thread open here.
    Staff Post
This discussion has been closed.