Dark Servant and Darkest Night

So... I've been running tip missions on progressively harder and harder difficulties for the past week since I resubbed, and I made it up to +0/x8 when it hit me:

I haven't seen Fluffy cast Darkest Night once.

Now, I understand that Fluffy got a change to his AI to that of a Melee pet sometime in the past six, seven issues. But I can't remember the last time I saw him turn on Darkest Night.

I hope to run some more heavily-packed mishes later this evening, but could people take a look at Fluffy's AI and see just when he's supposed to be casting Darkest Night? I mean, that's kind of a *big* part of his debuffage. But if he is doing what I *think* he is doing, (checks to see if Darkest Night is already on the target, finds a Darkest Night that is not his own, then skips to the next step in the algorithm.) I am not looking forward to cornerpulling with my own Darkest Night tied behind my back.

Side note: I note with great sadness that Castle moved on a year ago. In the past, I'd have just fired him off a PM, asking him. (Hey, it's how we got Accurate ToHit Debuffs working on Fluffy Blueside after several issues!) Is Black Scorpion, Sunstorm or Synapse heading up Powers now? Student, master, yadda yadda?

So. I figured out the issue. I needed to grab a Power Analyzer to do so, and thank the dev that thought THOSE little beauties up.

So there are one, possibly two problems with Fluffy and Darkest Night.

The first problem is that Fluffy's Darkest Night is incorrectly being flagged as "ignores buffs and enhancements", or something. The detailed power info does not reflect this, but Fluffy isn't getting past 15% -ToHit with Darkest Night. I have screenshots that are forthcoming.

The second problem appears to be an effects problem. It's not a result of reduced particles, since I am playing on Ultra mode, and maxed particles. In the past, Fluffy's Darkest Night would display the same effect that your Darkest Night would display, those darklight rays of light. Fluffy's Darkest Night no longer shows this animation. It would be nice to get a confirmation that this is intended, because the visual indicator was always nice.

(On a side note, I am slightly concerned about the radius of Darkest Night as well. I recast Power Analyzer on each mob, one after the other, and it appeared that while one mob was being affected by Darkest Night, the other was not.)

Did someone accidentally change Fluffy's version of Darkest Night over to the version used by the Dark Servant summoned by Carnie illusionists?

Here you go. Sorry it's so huge.

Would love it if a red name would at least say if it's truly screwed or WAI. I'm re-writing the Dark/Dark/Dark Defender guide, and it merits including in there, at least.

Still not fixed after this latest patch. You guys *do* have this logged in your bugtracker, right? The last time that I posted and said no more, Blueside Fluffy not accepting Accurate ToHit Debuffs wasn't entered into the bugtracker until I poked Castle about it, and even HE forgot for a while until I poked him again. Took almost a YEAR before it was finally fixed, if I remember correctly.