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Blaster Fire Manipulation: Burn. Bugged and burning a hole in my heart.

Eric_Linstone

By Eric_Linstone,
Posted on: 2010-08-26 19:20 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs

 

Posted

Short: The newly updated Burn power in the Blaster secondary Fire Manipulation is hurting my player character upon use. This is not occuring with other versions of the power.

Long and juicy: new!Burn is great. Heart-warming even. But the thing is Burn within the Blaster secondary Fire Manipulation is hurting my character upon use:

  • It does the initial new front-loaded damage to my character upon use.
  • It does the initial new front-loaded damage to enemies caught within it's radius.
  • It does NOT then do the following DoT damage to my character. It DOES do the additional DoT damage to surrounding enemies.
  • It still frees me from Immobilization effects (I think this is probably where the bug lies).
  • It is still applying its defiance buff correctly.
  • Upon it's use I register a Power Icon for burn featuring the same numbers as the power itself does when "info'd". However in this one the front-loaded damage number is halved.
  • When surrounded by 5 enemies or more (new!Burn's target cap) the self damage does NOT reliably occur (sometimes, sometimes not). Any less than 5 enemies within its radius or none at all leads me to take damage.
  • Verified to be occurring on other Blaster characters with different Primary powersets (Rad/Fire in my case).
  • The damage applied to the player character is affected by outside damage buffs (Build Up, Aim, etc).
  • The damage applied to the player character is affected by damage resistance variance. Standing under a few resistance debuffs from friendly Longbow, I was able to whack myself for over 600 points of damage in the kisser.
  • I am able to kill myself with overuse of the power (quite humorous).

I love new Burn, I really do, but I don't know if my heart can take this kind of fiery passion.

EDIT: Here is an example of how the combat log reads, using my sensational bestcharacterever:

Quote:
You activated the Burn power.
HIT bestcharacterever! Your Burn power is autohit.
bestcharacterever HITS you! Burn power was autohit.
You burn the ground underneath you, freeing you from Immobilize effects!
bestcharacterever burns you with their Burn for 170 points of fire damage!
You burn bestcharacterever with your Burn for 170 points of fire damage!
It would appear the initial damage is being applied to player characters as Autohit. It IS possible for it to miss on enemies though.

 

Posted

Ah! Very good point. The Burn patch is not able to miss me, it is flagged as Autohit. My combat log reads as follows, assuming my character is 'bestcharacterever':

Quote:
You activated the Burn power.
HIT bestcharacterever! Your Burn power is autohit.
bestcharacterever HITS you! Burn power was autohit.
You burn the ground underneath you, freeing you from Immobilize effects!
bestcharacterever burns you with their Burn for 170 points of fire damage!
You burn bestcharacterever with your Burn for 170 points of fire damage!
The power IS able to miss on enemy mobs however. This is what leads me to believe that the bug may have something to do with how Burn is applying its Immobilization protection.

I have also sent screenshots of the UI in action reporting this with correct data to the powers that be.

 

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I posted about this too. I'm guessing there just aren't many blasters out there with burn for it to get a lot of attention.
And yes, I have had it miss too. The self damage I mean. But when you hit build up & aim, forget it. Might as well be auto hit. Maybe they just forgot to re-name the power Burn Transfer.
But yeah I really hope they fix this soon.

 

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New patch today & blaster burn is still broken. You do know if this was doing something like a million damage to baddies the devs would be all over this. :P