All Mephits are immune to Holy Smite SLA

[lumpi]

Bug Report Number:

1

Haven't been able to search thru the old forums, so the earliest info I found out about this bug was in a reddit post from 11/22.

Using Holy Smite SLA (T4 Enhancement from DD tree) and Holy Power (T5) has NO effect on all types of mephits. Targeted the ground around them, targeted another monster near them, and targeted mephits directly, but still mephits are immune to Holy Smite SLA

(Have not tested to see if its the same with the actual spell)

edit: it says it's caused by mephits floating above the ground, but I have used Holy Smite on flying birds and it affects them. If floating above the ground was the main issue, then wouldn't reapers or wraiths also be unaffected?

 

[rabidfox]

It's the t5 that breaks it. Had a post on the old forums. There'a a post or two about it on the new forums too.

 

[rabidfox]

Missing:
T5 Power Balance breaks targeting on whichever alignment spell it upgrades. They'll no longer hit things that aren't perfectly at ground level like mephits after taking that enhancement. This was reported right after release and is still around as of a couple weeks ago when I ran another cleric life. (Spells work fine on those same mobs before "upgrading" the alignment spell, so it's entirely something about the t5 upgrade)

There's another post somewhere, where it may be tied into them being outsiders too beyond just ground leveling but I can't find it (I can search more later).

 

[lumpi]

ahh ...I was searching for Holy smite only and didn't see it in the threads..so its the T5 power balance bug

but it only affects mephits then? cuz it works on other flying creatures like birds

 

[rabidfox]

There's some other creatures it'll bug on. I think it was mixture of t5 + outsiders + certain alignment combos break different versions of the spells (holy smite, chaos hammer, etc.); I know there's a more detailed thread out there on these new forums about it. It's a been a bug since the DD revamp, so hopefully one of these threads will eventually lead to it getting fixed (who knows, maybe yours will be the one to finally tip SSG over the line to fix it).

 

[rabidfox]

https://forums.ddo.com/index.php?threads/is-power-balance-working-as-intended.774/

 

[lumpi]

ty i returned after being away so have missed a lot of things.

So I was Favor clearing some low lev quests and HS/Power Balance was working fine on flying birds, floating constructs

I don't have access to p2p quests, so I've only seen mephits being iummune

 

[rabidfox]

@Jummby the threads about that t5 breaking your holy smite.

 

[rabidfox]

Here you can see the bug is still in effect on live currently and a quest that makes it easy to reproduce with holy smite + the T5 ability that breaks it from working certain mobs like the mephet in this video.

https://imgur.com/GuTxavj

 

[rabidfox]

https://imgur.com/c8wYggl

 

[Aelonwy]

Well that is going to bite my next cleric life. Hope it gets fixed but I won't hold my breath. Appreciate everyone documenting so much of the issue.

 

[Tonquin]

Haven't been able to search thru the old forums, so the earliest info I found out about this bug was in a reddit post from 11/22.

Using Holy Smite SLA (T4 Enhancement from DD tree) and Holy Power (T5) has NO effect on all types of mephits. Targeted the ground around them, targeted another monster near them, and targeted mephits directly, but still mephits are immune to Holy Smite SLA

(Have not tested to see if its the same with the actual spell)

edit: it says it's caused by mephits floating above the ground, but I have used Holy Smite on flying birds and it affects them. If floating above the ground was the main issue, then wouldn't reapers or wraiths also be unaffected?

This has been fixed internally, and will be in an upcoming patch. Thank you!

 

[FVSHasBeenEvenMoreGutted]

This has been fixed internally, and will be in an upcoming patch. Thank you!

is it intended it doesnt do double damage to all targets and instead its the normal damage? description sounds like it should be the doubled damage (2d6+8)

 

[dur]

Mephits have always been a PITA. So satisfying to kill

 

[The Blonde]

This has been fixed internally, and will be in an upcoming patch. Thank you!

There's 2 more bugs regarding this ability:

It's also weird because the DD SLA lists higher damage for Unholy Blight than for the other three, but the regular spell doesn't... and my testing says the SLA isn't actually doing higher damage than the other three either. My guess is they recognized that Unholy Blight tends to suck so they were attempting to give the SLA more damage, but it didn't.

Chaos hammer and orders wrath have twice the cooldown length of holy/unholy (12s vs 6s). So using either of those is pretty much full of meh too.