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Control Wizards: Shard of the Endless Avalanche bugged

pers3phonepers3phone Banned Users, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 0 Arc User
edited January 2014 in NeverwinterPreview - Bug Reports
Powers that stun the CW will make the shard disappear: Chill Strike, Entangling Force, Repel, Impact Shot, IBS, Constricting Arrow (I think..). This is rendering our most important encounter useless for 10-14 seconds, most of the time resulting in CW death.

The same bug is present of Live.
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  • stoxforum1stoxforum1 Banned Users Posts: 265 Bounty Hunter
    edited January 2014
    Yep, has been this way for a long time. I'm not sure on IBS getting rid of it? Add shadow strike from stealth to this though.
  • pers3phonepers3phone Banned Users, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    stoxforum1 wrote: »
    Yep, has been this way for a long time. I'm not sure on IBS getting rid of it? Add shadow strike from stealth to this though.

    Yeah I thought I should bring this up again since it's so essential for CWs. Not fully sure if IBS is the GWF power that makes us lose shard, maybe Flourish? I think Roar has the same result...
  • imsmithyimsmithy Member Posts: 1,378 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    Highly annoying bug , Shard fails to explode or Shard just floats through entire groups of mobs and past them with no effect , at one point just after the CTA lag patch I thought it was fixed but I guess it was the remaining lag that just made it appear that way , it really needs fixing please.
  • pers3phonepers3phone Banned Users, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    imsmithy wrote: »
    Highly annoying bug , Shard fails to explode or Shard just floats through entire groups of mobs and past them with no effect , at one point just after the CTA lag patch I thought it was fixed but I guess it was the remaining lag that just made it appear that way , it really needs fixing please.

    This is a separate bug from shard disappearing from stuns, yet it is quite common in PvE. Sometimes the log actually shows the shardplosion taking place even if you see the shard evaporating. Sometimes however, there's just nothing... you just completely lose the cast. I have a feeling this is due to excessive lag, as the shard-push is also very affected, you push it, and it takes 2 secs for the shard to move sometimes :\
  • stoxforum1stoxforum1 Banned Users Posts: 265 Bounty Hunter
    edited January 2014
    pers3phone wrote: »
    Yeah I thought I should bring this up again since it's so essential for CWs. Not fully sure if IBS is the GWF power that makes us lose shard, maybe Flourish? I think Roar has the same result...

    Yeah Flourish would do it and probably Crescendo as well.
  • j0shi82j0shi82 Member Posts: 622 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    Might be related: There are occasions were the Shard also disappears in PVE instead of exploding.
  • ozzallmightyozzallmighty Member Posts: 6 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    So is that it.... ?? My Cw is pretty much useless at this point!!! yea the shard disappears before it explodes.. Does no damage, my CW is just horribly week right now in pVe.. This is a serious problem.. is it only effecting a few of us?
  • midnightfang93midnightfang93 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    ozzallmighty wrote: »
    So is that it.... ?? My Cw is pretty much useless at this point!!! yea the shard disappears before it explodes.. Does no damage, my CW is just horribly week right now in pVe.. This is a serious problem.. is it only effecting a few of us?

    Two things:

    1. Are you sure the visual isn't just bugging out? When I played by CW a lot, it sometimes "faded away" without exploding, when it really did explode and didn't do the visual for it; the damage still went through and everything was proned that should have been proned.
    2. Was Arcane Singularity active at the time? Both shard and sudden storm will not work on mobs affected by Arcane Singularity. You have to time it before or after you use it.
  • nathyielnathyiel Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 340 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    Here what I have experienced with Shard :
    - path through mob and don't stop. No damage, no prone, no explosion.
    - launch then disappear with no damage
    - hit mob then disappear but do damage. no animation.
    - it appear behind me. When i have mob just in front of me, or after a knock or a bump of my CW.

    Also, the trajectory is really tricky.
    - any small invisible bump will launch it in another direction.
    - if the bump is to big, instead of bump then land, it just sky rocket (very rare behaviour).

    Proposition for this : make Shard float a little above the ground So it should skip all graphical glitch but bump into "real" things.
  • imsmithyimsmithy Member Posts: 1,378 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    I suffered a weird bug today with Shard in a random CTA pug , I cast it no problems but then when I tried to push I got the sound and the hand movements and whatnot but the ball itself just stayed put and refused to move and no it wasn't lag , I was casting other skills inbetween waiting for the push charge to recharge to try to shove it again , the ball just stayed in place despite multiple attempts to push it until it finally exploded lol .
  • pers3phonepers3phone Banned Users, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    imsmithy wrote: »
    I suffered a weird bug today with Shard in a random CTA pug , I cast it no problems but then when I tried to push I got the sound and the hand movements and whatnot but the ball itself just stayed put and refused to move and no it wasn't lag , I was casting other skills inbetween waiting for the push charge to recharge to try to shove it again , the ball just stayed in place despite multiple attempts to push it until it finally exploded lol .

    Shard gets stuck in small unseen environment glitches or walls. You can push it all you want, it won't move.

    Also you need to be pretty close to the shard when you try to move it, or nothing will happen.
  • j0shi82j0shi82 Member Posts: 622 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    imsmithy wrote: »
    I suffered a weird bug today with Shard in a random CTA pug , I cast it no problems but then when I tried to push I got the sound and the hand movements and whatnot but the ball itself just stayed put and refused to move and no it wasn't lag , I was casting other skills inbetween waiting for the push charge to recharge to try to shove it again , the ball just stayed in place despite multiple attempts to push it until it finally exploded lol .

    Were you buffed by a DCs "Anointed Army" Daily?

    I thought I couldn't move my shard the other day while under the daily, but might just have been a weird coincidence.
  • imsmithyimsmithy Member Posts: 1,378 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    pers3phone wrote: »
    Shard gets stuck in small unseen environment glitches or walls. You can push it all you want, it won't move.

    Also you need to be pretty close to the shard when you try to move it, or nothing will happen.

    I know under what circumstances shard gets stuck in the environment , I've played a CW every day for the last 8 months give or take lol and J0shi I'm not sure , it was just a random CTA pug , I do know a DC was there but I couldn't say what spec .
  • cleauscleaus Member Posts: 7 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    nathyiel wrote: »
    Also, the trajectory is really tricky.
    - if the bump is to big, instead of bump then land, it just sky rocket (very rare behaviour).

    Happened to me a few times in PK last fight and I loved it. It somehow shoots up in the sky, then falls down and explode on the mobs like a meteor strike :D
  • sobekisobeki Member Posts: 22 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    On developers pvp day i asked Panderus about it and showed whats hapenin, he said is possibly a bug and took a note about this. i hope they work on it :|
    YT channel.
    https://www.youtube.com/user/ThePatomalo/videos
  • chemboy613chemboy613 Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 1,521 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    This has been happening to me a lot in draco. It's annoying.

    Potential solution - dodge?
    http://chemboy613.tumblr.com/ - Neverwinter Photoblog

    Everything you need to know about CW:

    http://nw-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?780981-Chem-s-CW-Compendium-Everything-you-need-to-know
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