Ah, good old Oil Slick. That never gets old.
1. Oil Slick is currently bugged in AE. It will do the "hit something else" bug that you have seen. You can hit it with fire or energy AoEs not targeting the oil itself. It works fine in normal missions, though, so try that instead.
2. Oil Slick lights when it feels like it.
3. Oil Slick can light when it is defeated. Usually that's only possible with fire or energy damage, but there are exception. Police Drones can light it with their instant kill shots, and kill volumes like around AE and the markets will also set it off. The Kill Target button in AE testing will do the same trick.
But Oil Slick has always been plagued by hard to fix bugs. Adding one or two to the pile isn't changing much.
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I don't understand what's up with the Oil Slick Arrow...
In missions, I can never get it to light, yes, I have blazing arrow. I target the oil slick and go to shoot it and I hit another target like the oil slick is targeting a foe and i target its target.
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OSA is bugged in AE missions. It works exactly as it always has everywhere else.
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Also, when I'm out in the world and messing arrown'ed with the slick to see whats going on with it, sometimes it lights all on its own.
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It doesn't. A critter, another player, you or a pet you have summoned hit it with Fire or Energy damage (or any kind of damage in a PvP zone or the Arena). That is, still and always, the only way to ignite OSA.
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This only seems to happen with hasten active and i see the hasten graphic glich in the center of the oil slick.
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Hasten doesn't affect OSA in any way, including mysteriously causing it to self-ignite.
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Any clues how/when/if these are new gliches or something that is going to get fixed soon?
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The OSA-AE bug is being investigated, it'll be fixed when they figure out why it's broken.
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The OSA-AE bug is being investigated, it'll be fixed when they figure out why it's broken.
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The exact mechanic in AE missions is that the Oil Slick, once on the ground, is showing up as a Friend, complete with blue target reticle. So when you target it, it sends the attack at a baddie, as though you were "assisting" the tank.
As a result, the ONLY way I have seen it light in AE missions is if some baddie fires off an AoE, like Rain of Fire, that happens to hit the Slick with the appropriate sort of attack. (So far, I have not seen a baddie deliberately attack the Slick individually, probably since anything else has more aggro.)
Your own AoEs, or those of your team, will not ever hit the Slick because it is "friendly," so your own Rain of Fire, etc., will never light it.
Castle has said they are aware of it and working on a fix, but commentary beyond that leads to grumbling and a thread derailment. 
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The OSA-AE bug is being investigated, it'll be fixed when they figure out why it's broken.
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The exact mechanic in AE missions is that the Oil Slick, once on the ground, is showing up as a Friend, complete with blue target reticle. So when you target it, it sends the attack at a baddie, as though you were "assisting" the tank.
As a result, the ONLY way I have seen it light in AE missions is if some baddie fires off an AoE, like Rain of Fire, that happens to hit the Slick with the appropriate sort of attack. (So far, I have not seen a baddie deliberately attack the Slick individually, probably since anything else has more aggro.)
Your own AoEs, or those of your team, will not ever hit the Slick because it is "friendly," so your own Rain of Fire, etc., will never light it.
Castle has said they are aware of it and working on a fix, but commentary beyond that leads to grumbling and a thread derailment.
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... Mh... what about Mind/TA or Ill/TA? You can confuse your Oil Slick and set it to fire after that? Anyone tried? xD
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... Mh... what about Mind/TA or Ill/TA? You can confuse your Oil Slick and set it to fire after that? Anyone tried? xD
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I would assume that since OSA is conning as a friendly target and not an enemy, attempting to Confuse/Deceive it would either:
A) Reroute the confuse to OSA's target
or
B) Block the confuse as an invalid target
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I just want the dang thing to always light when hit with the appropriate damage type. Is it supposed to have a 'chance to' light?
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I just want the dang thing to always light when hit with the appropriate damage type. Is it supposed to have a 'chance to' light?
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Nope, it's supposed to light every time it's hit with fire or energy. This is one of the long-standing bugs which I doubt will ever be fixed.
I gotta pipe in on this also.
TA/Electric Defender, outside. Even with Short Circuit no mobs around.... STILL DOESN'T LIGHT DANGNABBIT!!!!
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I gotta pipe in on this also.
TA/Electric Defender, outside. Even with Short Circuit no mobs around.... STILL DOESN'T LIGHT DANGNABBIT!!!!
*le sigh*
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I would presume that what is happening there (since you specified "outside," as in "outside of AE") is that Short Circuit is missing the slick.
What I don't know is whether the Oil Slick has any modifier of some sort or has the same chance to be hit as a regular minion, or if this is indeed some sort of bug that periodically interferes with Oil Slick being hit. A lot of folks have indicated the latter.
Inside the AE, of course, no attack of yours or your team will ever hit the Slick because it is bugged and cons "friendly" to you. I hope they fix that pronto, but you know how it is with bugs.
"How do you know you are on the side of good?" a Paragon citizen asked him. "How can we even know what is 'good'?"
"The Most High has spoken, even with His own blood," Melancton replied. "Surely we know."
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I gotta pipe in on this also.
TA/Electric Defender, outside. Even with Short Circuit no mobs around.... STILL DOESN'T LIGHT DANGNABBIT!!!!
*le sigh*
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I would presume that what is happening there (since you specified "outside," as in "outside of AE") is that Short Circuit is missing the slick.
What I don't know is whether the Oil Slick has any modifier of some sort or has the same chance to be hit as a regular minion, or if this is indeed some sort of bug that periodically interferes with Oil Slick being hit. A lot of folks have indicated the latter.
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OSTarget has -100% DEF, but there is always the 5% chance to miss.
What I assume he meant was that it failed to ignite. Which is "normal" OSA behavior. We've been trying to fix that bug ever since TA came out.
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Oh? I thought Castle gave up on it after his first effort ages ago.
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I think he tried at least two or three things, but yeah my impression is also that it's been given up on.
My suggestion to do away with the clunky, broken mechanic and replace it with a slash command, like /lightoilslick or something (that would only work if you had an Oil Slick out, and would only work on your own), apparently didn't make the cut.
I don't understand what's up with the Oil Slick Arrow...
In missions, I can never get it to light, yes, I have blazing arrow. I target the oil slick and go to shoot it and I hit another target like the oil slick is targeting a foe and i target its target. Also, when I'm out in the world and messing arrown'ed with the slick to see whats going on with it, sometimes it lights all on its own. This only seems to happen with hasten active and i see the hasten graphic glich in the center of the oil slick.
Any clues how/when/if these are new gliches or something that is going to get fixed soon?
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