Vanlor wrote:

Dev-Ngreth wrote:

Vanlor wrote:

aresgodofwar wrote:

SKlug wrote:

wire wrote:

With the coding time devoted to this fix, when can we expect changes to the pet spawning code which will allow Twincast to properly affect Rumbling Servant?
The difficulty of that is at least an order of magnitude greater.


So from what i understand of your post, every other DPS class has to deal with twice the aggro during twincast expect necros? WHile mages still get left behind, not because of design but becasue of coding issues? Is there a way to compensate for having 50% of our spell dps not twincastable? Maybe while under the effect of twincast it acts like a focus effect and makes a new RS pet that has 2x stats / dps of a single RS pet? Sort of a 18 second focus effect that doesn't effect any other pet.

Not to take the wind out of your sails, but it isn't like necs just got a huge boost (right now... zero boost). Even when some dots do get enabled for this, a necro only has those aas for a whopping 3% chance. We don't get a spell for a 100% chance during activation.



SKlug, do you know if the new twincast/dot code will affect enchanter twincast aura for dots as well? Do you have any sort of eta on the fix for dot type 3s or broken tributes?
that is a design fix not a code fix. It does NOT look like it will make it into the patch.

can you get me some more information please? Just to save me time digging through databases for things that are difficult to search for.

can I get a list of all of the type 3's that are supposed to work on DoT's AND a few items that the class that uses that type 3 can wear that it fits in?

If I understand the issue correctly ALL type 3s related to dots are currently borked. It happened with the bard 2nd spire fix that spread out the dmg of the 2nd spire. Damage from type 3 augs is now currently being spread out along the entire dot as well. Take http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/...html?item=79698 (Irae Faycite Shard: Soul Reaper's Pyre) which normally adds 120 dmg per tick. If your SRP goes for 7 tics the type 3 will now add 120/7 ~ 17 dmg per tick instead of 120. This is a fairly significant problem if you are running 8-10 dots and have worked hard to have type 3s for all/almost all of them.



If you were asking about tribute as well, Twinge of Pain (dot haste) is currently doing nothing (it is not a stacking issue as I tested without spell haste buff and det haste gear equipped). Many other tribute effects have been reported as being broken since the October patch. I believe Visions of Suffering and many stat increasing tributes are not working as well.
I mostly needed an example to run a test. We need to confirm if the "add Damage" adds to the instnat damage part that some dots have as well as to the continuing damage part, as it will go into the math.

For example... if we meant to add 120/tick for 7 ticks... we intended to add 840 damage... if the spell has an instant part, and the that also get the add damage... then simply making it 840 would double the effectiveness of the type 3, which we do not want. So I needed to find some test cases

Thanks for the lists I see in this post and have gotten in PM.



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