Blackwand bonus damage question?
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Posted on: 2012-04-01 10:39 in Archetypes and Powers General Discussion
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I haven't noticed a lack of the bonus damage for my characters, but the ones I've been playing lately have full attack chains without it and so I haven't even been using them.|
Originally Posted by Sailboat
I have a magic-origin Controller at 21 running through Talos Island and my Blackwand isn't doing the bonus damage for my origin. I can't recall when it stopped but I remember it working earlier in this character's career. Could it be the types of enemies I'm facing -- Warriors and Freakshow? Or is something buggy?
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I don't want to make assumptions that this is the case for you, especially if it did get the bonus damage previously, but one thing for other people to be watch for is that when going through the account items, the first one in the list is the later vet reward - allowing a choice of what you have not already taken from Sands of Mu, the Ghost Slaying Axe, the Nemesis Staff, and the Blackwand, and the latter two do not receive the bonus damage for origin with that reward.
Another reason to bring it up is that there may be a bug replacing the version which should do extra damage with the one that doesn't - double-check your combat log to make sure it's not reporting the bonus damage there either (you can't trust what pops up in the orange numbers as being the only damage you're doing), then file a bug report.
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Originally Posted by PleaseRecycle
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Originally Posted by Brillig
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It's working fine here.
Have you maybe picked up the regular Blackwand power and are using it by mistake? Are you using a bind to activate the power, which might be activating the regular Blackwand?
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The only one of the four vet attacks that has any sort of check vs enemy type is the Ghost Slaying Axe. The two staff choices work off of your origin. And I'll hop in game and check, but I seem to recall it still working for me.|
Originally Posted by Sailboat
I have a magic-origin Controller at 21 running through Talos Island and my Blackwand isn't doing the bonus damage for my origin. I can't recall when it stopped but I remember it working earlier in this character's career. Could it be the types of enemies I'm facing -- Warriors and Freakshow? Or is something buggy?
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If you're relying on the floating numbers, verify with your combat log - I believe that'll show the extra damage.
(Edit: Verified, yes, it is still doing the extra damage, and yes it shows in the combat log.)
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I had thought of that also, but the Forging the Blackwand arc is a 25-29 one in Sharkhead so assumed that a level 21 Controller in Talos wouldn't have it (yet). Plus the temp power from that arc does extra damage for magic origin in any case (just not mutant or natural) and doesn't have any -tohit.|
Originally Posted by StarGeek
It's working fine here.
Have you maybe picked up the regular Blackwand power and are using it by mistake? Are you using a bind to activate the power, which might be activating the regular Blackwand? |
The 3 versions:
Inherent with bonus damage
Inherent without bonus damage (54 month reward)
Temp Power version
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Originally Posted by PleaseRecycle
it has gone from unconscionable to downright appalling that we have no way of measuring our characters' wetness.
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Originally Posted by Brillig
It's hard to beat the entertainment value of Whackjob Wednesdays.
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Well, I could be misremembering the bonus damage, although I feel like I've seen it on this character. I'm guessing that, if I picked the rewards in the wrong order (THANKS NEW E-MAIL REWARD SYSTEM!!!) I can't undo it?
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Look at the Info for the power, it should say whether it gives the bonus damage, both in the text description and the numeric detailed info. If it's in the description and your character is Magic, but the damage is absent from the combat log, submit a bug report.
You can't undo or re-choose the rewards, no. It's too late to matter in this specific case, but the reward choice windows say whether you're choosing the version with bonus damage or not.
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Yeah, if you pick them out of order there isn't a way to go back. I did it on one character also (yes, the first one created when Freedom went live and the email system had them out of order) but caught it during the tutorial and just recreated quickly. |
Originally Posted by Sailboat
Well, I could be misremembering the bonus damage, although I feel like I've seen it on this character. I'm guessing that, if I picked the rewards in the wrong order (THANKS NEW E-MAIL REWARD SYSTEM!!!) I can't undo it?
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Still, if you think you've seen it on that character before check the combat log or right-click on the power and check it's info. If you have the Nemesis Staff also (you'd have the option for it and the Blackwand in order to be able to select the wrong one at all) check and see if it has bonus extra damage listed for origin, too - if neither one has bonus damage there's definitely a bug going on.
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Originally Posted by PleaseRecycle
it has gone from unconscionable to downright appalling that we have no way of measuring our characters' wetness.
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Originally Posted by Brillig
It's hard to beat the entertainment value of Whackjob Wednesdays.
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They fixed that.|
Originally Posted by Siolfir
I don't want to make assumptions that this is the case for you, especially if it did get the bonus damage previously, but one thing for other people to be watch for is that when going through the account items, the first one in the list is the later vet reward - allowing a choice of what you have not already taken from Sands of Mu, the Ghost Slaying Axe, the Nemesis Staff, and the Blackwand, and the latter two do not receive the bonus damage for origin with that reward.
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At least, the Staff With Bonus Damage reward now pops before the Staff/Axe/Sands of Mu reward when you Claim All.
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I have a magic-origin Controller at 21 running through Talos Island and my Blackwand isn't doing the bonus damage for my origin. I can't recall when it stopped but I remember it working earlier in this character's career. Could it be the types of enemies I'm facing -- Warriors and Freakshow? Or is something buggy?
If we are to die, let us die like men. -- Patrick Cleburne
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The rule is that they must be loved. --Jayne Fynes-Clinton, Death of an Abandoned Dog