This has happened to me a lot. It's frustrates me because I'm a person who opens from stealth and uses the stealth ability frequently.

Off topic:To be quite honest, I struggle a lot in VR zones, as a dual dagger assassin, not only because of this, but even with updated current Vr gear to my Vr lvl I still struggle soloing a #$%^ing side quest to the point where it feels impossible.
I take a lot of pride in logging out over BS like this. Love the hell out of this game, but I just had to unsub for not feeling satisfied with being able to play the way I want to.

A lot of people playing the NightBlade are having these issues. The healers are a huge PITA. It takes them seconds to get right back to 100% health and half the time stunning them isn't working like it is suppose to.

But as the OP stated, the debuff for stunning is working, however the enemies are not losing the health they are suppose to with the ability and it is getting really frustrating. There are a lot of bosses I can't defeat in VR levels and am going to have to work my way up to go back and do them later and hope that works. It isn't fun.

I have noticed that mobs now properly lose aggro from me when i use Shadowy Disguise if im fighting not alone (teammate nearby or Summon Shade).
May be this is the cause ?

P.S. Yet another change which was NOT stated in patch notes...

i am having same problems with my nightblade also as you describe.

Sidney wrote: »

Mobs reset on stealth because it thinks you're not around any more. Same as in wow if you stealth it will reset. If you hide it thinks you are gone and there's nobody to be in combat with so it resets.

This is not a bug.

I haven't noticed this... What kind of NB did you use? Mine seems rather nerfed and out of balance with the rest of ESO--especially the single-player bosses but that may partly be because I am unwilling to bastardize her with a staff and light armor.

So, if what you are saying is true and not a bug, and if fair is fair then as soon as my NB successfully becomes 'hidden' or drinks an invisibility potion and the boss or foes resets themselves, all my attributes should reset too? I may be wrong but I don't think that is what happens. If it was fair then any cooldown state you were in should instantly disappear too along with your health, magicka, and stamina bars going 100% full as instantly as the foes; and too, with the foes any minions they spawned would disappear--thus putting everything, including me back into its original state?

I don't know yet how to use this yet to my NB's advantage. I know trying to drop into stealth to prevent dying doesn't work. I stay 'detected' and pursued. But I haven't tried a 3 or 4 seconds of invisibility to get behind the now reset boss with minions disappeared to try another sneak attack. Besides, I have yet been able to do a successful sneak attack on a boss. I think the whole single-player boss battle is ill conceived in an MMO anyway because the NB has skills that just don't affect the boss much and the boss tosses out its best against the NB that apparently she has little defense against. The funny thing is that I now our battle tactics differ and your mileage does vary from mine.

For me at least the single-player boss encounters are my greatest and persistent failures. They aren't fair one-on-one battles with a standard NB. I haven't discovered any skill or means to interrupt a boss spawning minions when I manage to damage him sufficiently or likewise interrupt a snake boss casting its healing spheres and hitting all those spheres in time when the snake has me frozen in my tracks unable to move quickly or at all. My NB is a poor fighter with bosses and it really spoils the game finding no challenge or solution.

ipkonfigcub18_ESO wrote: »

When fighting mobs I tend to notice (a lot) that they will reset when using Shadowy (stealth).

• Sneak up behind mob
• Surprise Attack
• Followed up with an Ultimate or Rapid Strikes (whatever you want)
• Shadowy (stealth to reapply your stun again)
• Mob resets instantly (this happens on normal, 1Dots and 2Dot mobs)

Now, ok, fine it's a bug. The problem I have with this is when you are needing that massive opening to quickly kill the 1/3 mobs to quickly start on 2/3 mobs and finally 3/3 mobs you have blown your class' main objective - kill fast because your armor/defense sucks.

When I'm fighting a difficult mob an its health is about 30% from death, it matters. But using Shadowy at times resets that mob and regains 100% of its health back. Not cool.

And . . .

With this I am noticing another problem when sneaking up behind mobs and using Surprise Attack - It applies the Debuff (40% armor reduction) to the mob but the damage from Surprise Attack does 0 damage to the mob (it's stunned, has a debuff but still has 100% HP). Surprise Attack, along with several other traits you skill into, is a very large opening attack when behind the mob and in sneak.

Can we get some clarification as to whether or not our developers are aware of this? I would like to see this fixed in patch 1.2.

I know a lot of Nightblades don't care about this, but I personally do and find it very annoying when playing a challenging class riddled with issues.

Lastly there is this:
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/106151/mob-npcs-stacking-on-each-other-enough-with-it

The above URL is for all Melee classes, I would hope this would be changed in 1.2 patch as well.

I've noticed the resetting and then 0 dmg sneak attack myself and it definitely needs to be fixed --- and I'm sure it will be.

Just finished my first full day of Coldharbour with my NB and what a surprise. No single player boss battles; no awareness of battle mechanics not working correctly; no bugs; no crashes. As of right now it looks like all my unfinished quest bugs and boss battle imbalances reside in Reaper's March. Can't say I noticed the OP's problem/not a problem once.

Tomorrow's another day.

I just went through the entire VR 10 zone abusing Shadowy Disguise and was surprised to never have a single mob reset due to it. However, I did have mobs take the damage from my hidden bonus attack and then reset immediately afterward while still stunned a few times.

I wonder if those two issues are related.

ipkonfigcub18_ESO wrote: »

Thank you, @ZOS_MichelleA‌ and my apologies to those I reacted to unprofessionally.

Aye, I second this and apologize all the same.

murklor007neb18_ESO wrote: »

Vandril wrote: »

I just went through the entire VR 10 zone abusing Shadowy Disguise and was surprised to never have a single mob reset due to it. However, I did have mobs take the damage from my hidden bonus attack and then reset immediately afterward while still stunned a few times.

I wonder if those two issues are related.

I've gone through the VR9 and VR10 zone (well half) the last couple of days and I have not once seen shadowy disguise resetting combat. I [ab]use it pretty much every fight that involve more than 1 mob (its not like you need it on 1 unless its a boss).

There must be something more at work here than a glitch in the system if the OP can repeat the issue. A specific thing that cause the reset to occur, not just your average shadow/stab combo.

It's not a very common thing. When I said I went through the VR10 zone abusing Shadowy, I meant literally spamming Shadowy Disguise and Concealed Weapon, rinse and repeat, in order to help test this. As mentioned by phtony06b14_ESO, it's most noticeable on boss mobs. I died to a boss mob five times in a row earlier today in the VR9 zone (I did the VR10 zone first on a whim) because this kept happening and my Magicka would run out. That was just a streak of bad luck, though.

Now that I think about it, has anyone had this happen when they used a spell OTHER than Veiled Strike or one of its morphs to open from invisibility? Or has it ever happened while JUST in the invisible state and without having taken action? I'm starting to wonder if the bug isn't with the stealth/invisibility mechanic at all, but rather with Veiled Strike. This would also explain the "instant health recovery" resets that many are experiencing while opening with Veiled Strike while only using basic sneak and not invisibility.

If it is Veiled Strike, it might not even require sneaking to do this. If you spam it on a mob long enough, I wonder if it'll cause the mob to reset. Granted, it also MIGHT require sneaking, as it might be using Veiled Strike from the sneaking state that causes it.

Oh, and as an aside, since someone brought this possibility up in another thread about this: it's not just one morph of Shadow Cloak that has this happen. This can happen with either morph, as I've experienced it with both.

Okay, so I'm not the only one. Almost killing a mob only to have it reset to full HP is frustrating. This isn't on the list of NB fixes. Is this not a bug?