There was no animation. There was nothing. That’s it. Mother ported me back to the chamber and the run was over.
I was fighting the Voidcrazed Hulk. The sanity loss during the fight is not excessive, but rather I simply started the fight very low. I did not lose the entire restored amount of sanity. I’m also not going to lose that much health to this mob in anywhere near that amount of time.
Also, I have seen what it looks like when it happens. It is pretty easy to tell because suddenly commands do not work for two or three seconds while you are restored to the fight.
Look, I’m not going to argue this over and over again. You either proc’d it at some point during your run and didn’t realize it or you got killed again during the animation and didn’t realize it. I have quite a few rank 15+ characters, mad world, etc etc, and I’ve never seen this happen in dozens and dozens of runs. This patch has been live for months and nobody else that I know, that runs these on a frequent basis, has ever not had it go off when it was available.
If this were really a bug, Blizzard would have spotted this and there would be threads with thousands and thousands of posts about it.
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At least we can agree on something. I see no reason to continue this disagreement with you.
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This veranarana sure likes to stick up for Blizzard. How about you post a video of it working? You are one voice saying it does among a hundred complaints. Burden of proof is yours. 
Alright, I’ll make one for you. I’ll make a couple of huge weak auras to show HP and sanity.
There you go, had a bunch of issues getting OBS to screencap WoW for some reason and then I had to find a decent free video editor. As you can see, it’s definitely working just fine. If I have another vessel left, I’ll make a clip of it working for sanity hitting zero as well.
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It is possible there is some latency component to this. I’ve been avoiding commenting because I have never seen it not work and have seen it work correctly for me at least a few times. But I run WoW from an SSD and have at least medium good internet so I am not often affected by timing issues.
“Bugs that only affect some people sometimes” are really hard to fix.
There are plenty of bugs that only happen sometimes. Killing a rare in the Arathi Highlands not granting credit for a WQ took them a while to figure out. There is a bug where on rare occasion entering an area with an active WQ does not let you make progress on it unless you leave and enter the area again.
I have no idea of the prevalence of this particular bug with the Emergency Cranial Defibrillation research. I’ve only found myself relying on it to activate once in the last ten or more weeks. That one time, however, it did not work. Assertions about not noticing it activate earlier in the run hold about as much weight as showing it worked correctly once and claiming it will always work 100% of the time.
Normally there is supposed to be an animation where you stop in place for a seconds and a wave of light comes off your player and you will see 50% of your sanity restored. The floating combat text is noticeable when it goes off. The only thing I have seen be damaging enough to “one shot” a player are the Faceless that summon orbs that drop on players. Having two overlapped can do close to 500k in damage. Past that there isn’t really anything in ether vision that will speed drain or one shot you with a fully upgreaded cloak 5mask run that you will not notice blatantly. All sanity drains have prominent visual effect which force your attention on to them. Unless someone is completely inept they will notice when they have lost all sanity and got some back. You don’t get though 5 masks by not paying attention to what is going on.
I hope you realize you have insinuated that the dozens and dozens of people who are reporting this issue are inept or to put it more bluntly stupid.
People are reporting that there are cases where for whatever reason difib will not go off. Dismissing that feedback, asking for concrete evidence outside of numerous reports when you yourself don’t have a detailed study or have preformed a large number of tests is simply ridiculous.
I have seen just from looking around that there are dozens of people who have reported this issue. Unless you plan to put your money where your mouth is, and put the time in to test this for hours on end in multiple different situations against each boss and mob in the dungeon with different mechanics in place you have no proof that is works 100% of the time.
If we have dozens of people reporting some form of issue with it that isn’t nothing. I don’t think anyone is suggesting that this doesn’t work at all, players are simply suggesting that at times the self revive is bugged. Like I said being dismissive and un-constructive dose not help anyone.
For anyone out there I would suggest planing your pulls without factoring in the self revive. Lean on mechanics that are know to be consistent like Elite Extermination. Treat Self Revive like Gift of the Titans.
It’s visible in my video. It’s short, lasts like 1.5 seconds or so.
No, it’s not and there isn’t a combat log indicator, if I recall correctly.
One shot as in you are taking very high dps from multiple enemies. The last pack in old town comes to mind. On a five mask, they will zero a player in seconds, if you aren’t careful.
Not when there are a million things happening at once.
Yes, and I’m sticking to it. Apparently, Blizzard agrees as well because they have said absolutely nothing about this or that it’s some known bug.
Well I already got the bug and I read that Blizz confirmed its not working as designed, I just want to see what the veteran want to say about it 
https://us.battle.net/support/en/article/258120
Still broken. Try to run in groups. This is now much more difficult to get a 5 mask achievement since the research isn’t working for some. Sadly I think I’ll just unsub. wait for the new content. Currently there is next to nothing I’d like to be doing in this game.
Some of the posts here are getting quite overblown.
1) Yes, it is a bug that exists. Blizzard even has an article about it.
2) You, as the player, can mitigate this problem by simply being a bit more conscious of your pulling and risk taking.
3) Unsubbing, or protesting content because of a bug that, by virtue of its random nature since not everyone suffers it, is unproductive. I would be willing to bet that they are attempting to recreate and fix it. random bugs, with out a specific or notable trigger are some of the hardest to recreate… Let alone fix. Calm yourselves down.
4) Y’all don’t wanna hear this, but if you are rank 15 and moderately geared (as in 460+) and you cannot run 3 to 5 mask without relying on the ECD… That is something that no bug fix will correct. Maybe this is a moment for you, the player, to step up their skill level?
I have achieved mad world on 4 separate characters, across both factions. Some were easier (DH, BM hunter)… Some were harder (warlock, Holy Priest)… I didn’t lean on a broken spell to defend failing. I found a way around it and played better… And that is how players used to beat content in this game when the game itself was MMMUUUUCCCCHHH buggier.
We can hope blizzard fixes this. Which is fair. Hold their feet to the fire until it works. While they are working on fixing it… Use this time to fix yourself in the game. You may be surprised by what you figure out.
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To be fair. Playing video games is unproductive. hahaha
7/17 and it still doesn’t work properly. Did not have an issue getting cape to 15 on 5 characters but when I tried on my warlock @ rank 10 the emergency cranial defibrillation didn’t when I hit 0 sanity. I have a screenshot of my weakaura also showing that I have a ‘cheat death’ available. I don’t mind grinding hours for my few vessels per week on an alt but I atleast expect to be rewarded correctly when I do. Rather than getting my cape to 15 this week I won’t be because the vessel was wasted. Submitted a bug, lets see if blizzard will refund the vessel or not. Ill keep you updated 
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I think people are justifiably upset that they spent hours farming and a mechanic they relied on didn’t work. Of course, NOW after it happened, they will adjust their strategies. But they had a reasonable expectation for this to work, especially when it’s a known bug for months. Not everyone is a god gamer like you and not everyone has the time to farm currency constantly. I always try to think of others when I make statements. Not everyone is in the same situation.
Happened to me today Please fix Blizz!
Happened to me as well, just now. Really irritating.
Happened just now. Still not working.