PSA: DO NOT USE KENSAI REED IN THE WIND

Underflow

Underflow

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So, it turns out that Kensai's new Reed in the Wind is bugged.

Bugged how?

Well... It gives Battle Guard not only to the user... but to every mob it hits. (Somehow, I managed to overlook this for an entire Heroic Life...)

I finally noticed this while slowly beating an epic level event red name to death, and decided to ensure that I wasn't crazy.

I've confirmed it being applicable to hostile monsters, the training dummy, the airship cannon, and other players in PVP.

Using PVP, I can confirm that the buff you're inadvertently giving targets does in fact give the proper 10 PRR/MRR.

Unless you so enjoy giving targets PRR/MRR this ability is never, ever worth using.

I've posted a report, but yeah, what a bug.
 
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Underflow

Underflow

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Wagon said:
How about Shield smash and celestial man date?
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I can confirm that shield smash works fine (and doesn't give targets PRR), I haven't tested celestial mandate, I can test right now.

Edit: Celestial Mandate is functioning properly (it uses the same icon for its debuff but it doesn't give mobs extra PRR), it's just Reed in the Wind that's being dumb
 
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vryxnr

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also came here to post about and confirm this. Sadness. Reed in the Wind is currently giving the Battle Guard buff to enemies. :(
 
Drunken.dx

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Kimbere said:
Welcome to R11...
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this gives me an idea...

r11 but instead of game buffing mobs, any buff you cast on yourself (or anyone in party) goes also to every mob in dungeon.

so entire buffed party buffs every mob to the level push raid leaders dream about their raid party having such buffs
 
Underflow

Underflow

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droid327 said:
Shintao too then I'm guessing since it's the same ability?
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Shintao version is still just as worthless as it was before. It gives nonstacking dodge, but has the exact same name as Kensai. I was under the impression they'd change it too, but nope.

It's astonishing how making Reed worthless again immediately undid the Fighter buffs it got last patch: The early PRR helped make up for the loss in power you'd get from splashing standard Fighter instead of Dragon Lord. But with that not functioning, the only thing Fighters got was better Shattering Strike, which is just a worse version of Slaughter.

It can be worked around, but until they fix the bug, I'm taking reed off of my hotbar and just making do with being slightly less durable.
 
Col Kurtz

Col Kurtz

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Underflow said:
So, it turns out that Kensai's new Reed in the Wind is bugged.

Bugged how?

Well... It gives Battle Guard not only to the user... but to every mob it hits. (Somehow, I managed to overlook this for an entire Heroic Life...)

I finally noticed this while slowly beating an epic level event red name to death, and decided to ensure that I wasn't crazy.

I've confirmed it being applicable to hostile monsters, the training dummy, the airship cannon, and other players in PVP.

Using PVP, I can confirm that the buff you're inadvertently giving targets does in fact give the proper 10 PRR/MRR.

Unless you so enjoy giving targets PRR/MRR this ability is never, ever worth using.

I've posted a report, but yeah, what a bug.
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maybe link this to the Kensai Class page too & thx 4 the heads up
 
droid327

droid327

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Drunken.dx said:
this gives me an idea...

r11 but instead of game buffing mobs, any buff you cast on yourself (or anyone in party) goes also to every mob in dungeon.

so entire buffed party buffs every mob to the level push raid leaders dream about their raid party having such buffs
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All that'd do is make it even more focused just on dps lol
 
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