Please "investigate" the replicable blazing shield damage stacking.

due to the bow- "issues" as you developers call this mostly, how about 5 days reimbursement as its actually not possible to PLAY a bow-focused char at the moment (besides collecting ingredients) ? i wanted to start vr1 stuff by using meridias crystal and i get pwnd by monsters and bandits almost 10level below me which before the patch were just random noise to me.
an update if it hasnt posted yet to the appearence of weapons: after swapping bow and dual-daggers (as often posted) it shows the wrong weapon, but if i use a crafting table i see my correct weapon equipped. after exiting its still equipped, but then the messing-up starts again, like "shooting arrows" with dual daggers

still, the question about reimbursement stands. i only have this char, and not much time to play and i just can wait it out atm... and subscription time runs out too.

the third skill upgrade of minor hireling, which gives delivery's twice per day has been bugged for me. i think this is also happening with my once per day delivarys.

.... before 1.3 i would see what time i got the delivery, round to the next minute and write it down to log in 12 hours later (or 24 hours if the alt got only 1 delivery a day). This worked before 1.3 to get 2 delivery's and if logged in at the proper time i only lost a few minutes a day.

Now i log at just greater than 12 hours and no delivery ... i keep logging in and out and eventually in the next 30 mins i get the next delivery. This has many days since the patch so it is not an error on my part. The current method of minor hirelings is bad enough, .... but it is now making its delivering a random amount of time over 12 hours. If we dont constantly log in and out 24 hours per day we will be cheated out of our delivery.

As has been complained about in other threads ..... the current method of minor hireling, even when working properly (delivery <= 12 hours) ensure people who work will miss the window every few days.

With it bugged like it is now (delivery > 12 hours) u can miss it everyday if u only have a small window of time to get em.

Defensive posture > absorb magic
The arm movement animation works, but the visual spell effect thta accompanies this isnt being shown.

Deshaan / ashlander....Last night I came out of a delve and was repeatedly hit for light damage every second. I raised my shield, and had a red dot on the compass but nothing was visible. After about 30 hits of moving with shield raised... one of those 2 legged dragon things appeared out of stealth ???

I mean really, stealth beasts ? Coudl be an interesting idea but at least warn us 1st lol.

DirectorSCUD wrote: »

Rune_Relic wrote: »

After about 30 hits of moving with shield raised... one of those 2 legged dragon things appeared out of stealth ???

I mean really, stealth beasts ? Coudl be an interesting idea but at least warn us 1st lol.

Maybe you and the enemy were in 2 different phases? *shouldn't* happen, but could.

But he did appear and took several hits as I couldnt hit him while invisible. How do they change phase ?

I'm curious to know if these bugs existed on PTS, and went unreported. Or, if they are changing the software before going live. Not to mention the fact they are not discovered during internal regression tests.

I know that updates will always introduce new bugs. Such is the nature of highly complex software. I'm not implying that zero bugs should be expected. Even with extensive testing, bugs are going to happen.

What I am questioning is the nature of the bugs that are being missed in testing. Many of these issues are almost immediately noticeable and globally impacting. For example; The weapon swap issues. And "worms do not drop". These are not rare occurrences, or "corner cases".

The prevalence of these reports makes me question how these are not being discovered before going live. What in testing is broken? Some of the possibilities are:

1. The test cases are limited to scenarios that do not trigger these bugs.
2. The bugs are known, but code is pushed anyway.
3. Last minute changes get released untested.
4. The internal test environment and/or PTS servers environments differ from production in ways that prevent these bugs from manifesting.

4 is expected. Scale is always an issue. And, it is often unrealistic to simulate production scale environments. Are these things only happening at scale? It seems unlikely, given the nature of some of these issues.

2 and 3 shouldn't happen. Except perhaps for extraordinary circumstances.

1 is always a work-in-progress. But, some of this stuff seems fundamental. And should already be in the "test bed".

eventide03b14a_ESO wrote: »

The amount of time it takes to fix these problems they are creating also has me wondering if they are just understaffed. I played both EQ and EQ2 for years and while there were frequently bugs, the ones that impacted game play to the point where you couldn't fight in combat effectively were taken care of immediately.

I played EQ from day 1 and 7 years ahead.

Took about a year to fix the zone problem...when you zone from one zone to another it could take 10!! mins.

"bugs" always came after each week patch, and was taken cared of, just like here.

However, EQ, which I think still think was the best MMO ever, had far less "parts" then ESO.

Also, EQ was class based. The "bugs" that EQ had was falling through the world, getting stuck, mobs not visible, mobs stuck in a wall, A boss didnt work as intended.

In easy terms, EQ had about 10 moving parts in the game that could effect eachother when you change 1.

ESO have 50.

And btw. Combat been fine for me. Not everyone have the combat problem.

eventide03b14a_ESO wrote: »

Cogo wrote: »

eventide03b14a_ESO wrote: »

The amount of time it takes to fix these problems they are creating also has me wondering if they are just understaffed. I played both EQ and EQ2 for years and while there were frequently bugs, the ones that impacted game play to the point where you couldn't fight in combat effectively were taken care of immediately.

I played EQ from day 1 and 7 years ahead.

Took about a year to fix the zone problem...when you zone from one zone to another it could take 10!! mins.

"bugs" always came after each week patch, and was taken cared of, just like here.

However, EQ, which I think still think was the best MMO ever, had far less "parts" then ESO.

Also, EQ was class based. The "bugs" that EQ had was falling through the world, getting stuck, mobs not visible, mobs stuck in a wall, A boss didnt work as intended.

In easy terms, EQ had about 10 moving parts in the game that could effect eachother when you change 1.

ESO have 50.

And btw. Combat been fine for me. Not everyone have the combat problem.

That fantastic that you have not had the combat problem. I guess I should just stop complaining since you don't have the problem. My post isn't about a boss not working or someone falling through the world once in a while. I am talking about people not being able to switch their weapons in combat. I don't mean a couple people, but rather a great deal of people. This is not something that only happens infrequently either. It was literally happening to me about 70% of the time last night when I played. That has a huge impact on the game and it should get a hotfix. That's not something you put off till the next scheduled maintenance. That's sort of like seeing your check engine light turned on and smoke coming out of your hood but deciding to wait till you get your oil changed in a month to fix it. I'm not really sure how you can defend this unless you honestly just don't see the problem.

Defend? I played EQ 24/7, work, sleep, play eq. For 7 years almost. I sat there for 15 mins starring in the spellbook to meditate back mana. I wiped for 2 hours before setting up in plane of fear. I woke the sleeper (Hell that was awesome!)
Problems always came on patch day. Raid guilds, like ours never had raids on wednesdays, but on thursdays when the fix for the patch came.

Patch was 9 hours or more btw. How long is ESO down? Few hours?

There was problems and EQ fixed them quicker. AGAIN. EQ have 10 parts. ESO 50. Do the math.

Your car reference is ludicrous. I don't mind discussing this with you, but the way you posting simply shows a major lack of understanding of MMO technical side. Why dont you ask if you do not know? If your weapon swap in combat didnt work, but others did....ever think about why? Or just blame the game right away?

Cogo wrote: »

eventide03b14a_ESO wrote: »

Cogo wrote: »

eventide03b14a_ESO wrote: »

The amount of time it takes to fix these problems they are creating also has me wondering if they are just understaffed. I played both EQ and EQ2 for years and while there were frequently bugs, the ones that impacted game play to the point where you couldn't fight in combat effectively were taken care of immediately.

I played EQ from day 1 and 7 years ahead.

Took about a year to fix the zone problem...when you zone from one zone to another it could take 10!! mins.

"bugs" always came after each week patch, and was taken cared of, just like here.

However, EQ, which I think still think was the best MMO ever, had far less "parts" then ESO.

Also, EQ was class based. The "bugs" that EQ had was falling through the world, getting stuck, mobs not visible, mobs stuck in a wall, A boss didnt work as intended.

In easy terms, EQ had about 10 moving parts in the game that could effect eachother when you change 1.

ESO have 50.

And btw. Combat been fine for me. Not everyone have the combat problem.

That fantastic that you have not had the combat problem. I guess I should just stop complaining since you don't have the problem. My post isn't about a boss not working or someone falling through the world once in a while. I am talking about people not being able to switch their weapons in combat. I don't mean a couple people, but rather a great deal of people. This is not something that only happens infrequently either. It was literally happening to me about 70% of the time last night when I played. That has a huge impact on the game and it should get a hotfix. That's not something you put off till the next scheduled maintenance. That's sort of like seeing your check engine light turned on and smoke coming out of your hood but deciding to wait till you get your oil changed in a month to fix it. I'm not really sure how you can defend this unless you honestly just don't see the problem.

Defend? I played EQ 24/7, work, sleep, play eq. For 7 years almost. I sat there for 15 mins starring in the spellbook to meditate back mana. I wiped for 2 hours before setting up in plane of fear. I woke the sleeper (Hell that was awesome!)
Problems always came on patch day. Raid guilds, like ours never had raids on wednesdays, but on thursdays when the fix for the patch came.

Patch was 9 hours or more btw. How long is ESO down? Few hours?

There was problems and EQ fixed them quicker. AGAIN. EQ have 10 parts. ESO 50. Do the math.

Your car reference is ludicrous. I don't mind discussing this with you, but the way you posting simply shows a major lack of understanding of MMO technical side. Why dont you ask if you do not know? If your weapon swap in combat didnt work, but others did....ever think about why? Or just blame the game right away?

I'm not asking for your EQ cred buddy. You have this idea that because something isn't effecting you it's not a problem. Despite what you're mom told you, you are not the most important person in the world. Right now I have a severe handicap while playing, in that I am not able to swap weapons without there being a good chance that it will break my ability to actually use the weapon. I didn't code the game so I'm going to assume it's on their end. Given the severity of the issue I'd say it's deserving of a hotfix. I'm really not sure how to make my point any more clear.

eventide03b14a_ESO wrote: »

You have this idea that because something isn't effecting you it's not a problem. Despite what you're mom told you, you are not the most important person in the world. Right now I have a severe handicap while playing, in that I am not able to swap weapons without there being a good chance that it will break my ability to actually use the weapon. I didn't code the game so I'm going to assume it's on their end. Given the severity of the issue I'd say it's deserving of a hotfix. I'm really not sure how to make my point any more clear.

Never said it wasn't a problem. I said maybe not blame the game right away if it doesn't effect other players. It could be your side. It could be many things.

Unless you missed it, they are fixing problems. But they are not fixing YOUR problem, right NOW.

This is way off topic, and being rude gets you nowhere.

There are a number of issues being seen with weapon swapping, including the incorrect weapon being displayed and the weapon being unsheathed when it should be sheathed.

STATUS: Potentially fixed in patch v1.3.4

I agree, this is a severe problem and should be hotfixed, but maybe they still working on it?

Also, since half the playerbase isn't effected by this, its a hard call to bring down servers for a few hours even if I think they should. I wouldnt mind at all. But LOADS of others would. No caring for them I guess?

You can be just as good without weapon swapping. Better even, you have to adapt to be really good with 1 bar.

eventide03b14a_ESO wrote: »

Snip - did not read my post at all

I agree, this is a severe problem and should be hotfixed

How is making a public thread, posting updates about the progress on the bugs, not taking it seriously?

Seems Nighblade skill LEECHING STRIKES is also broken.

I was wondering why I was getting severe Stamina and Magicka drain during combat since I always initiate Leeching Strikes prior to any engagement for the sold purpose of receiving

While toggled, basic weapon attacks restore 3% Magicka/Stamina and 2% Health. Weapon and Spell Damage reduced by 25%. 10% chance on basic weapon attacks to restore 15% Magicka and Stamina.

Well I watched my Stamina and Magicka and Health bars and was getting nothing restored at all. Was working just fine prior to the new update. Broken Leeching Strikes coupled with previously reported Broken Magnum Shot and Focused Aim is a serious hit to my Nightblade skill build. A combat broken system should be a priority to fix. This cannot be allowed to continue. A Hotfix is in order here and soon.