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The Chaosball was reworked with the Battlegrounds update to possibly transform the player into a Werewolf Behemoth or a Vampire Lord, but one of the three Chaosballs don't transform your character into anything — the problem is that even this third one can't be picked up by players in Werewolf form. I used to build Werewolf characters specifically for holding the Chaosball. Sure, it wasn't as tanky as a character in their human form could be, but it's sad to know that I can no longer use Werewolf form for holding the Chaosball like I once could. It used to be possible on the PTS, but was likely disabled to prevent a bug with the skill bars not being properly overwritten by the Chaosball transformation. Is there a chance this change can be reviewed? I'd like to play as a Werewolf in Battlegrounds, but this change is actively working against that. @ZOS_Kevin @ZOS_BrianWheeler
about 2 months ago - ZOS_Kevin - Direct link
Hi Folks! First, thanks for your feedback and sending the clips focusing on Werewolves not being able to pick up the Chaosball. Really helps get an answer swiftly on this issue. After chatting with the team this morning, its been determined that currently this is working as designed. Players who are transformed into forms other than their standard humanoid form will no longer be able to pick up Chaos Balls which also Transform you into Behemoths or Vampire Lords. Standard Chaos Balls can be picked up while transformed if the Chaosball is in its native location, but not in the wild if you are transformed. This is currently working like this because we found issues in PTS that would have been problematic on the live server. This was the best way we could address it in the time we had before launch. However, we plan to address this in a future update to be consistent regardless of your transformation status when interacting with the Chaosball. We'll share more once that update is ready.