Minion of Discord

[Xelgadis]

My guild was clearing Txevu this past Sunday, and as luck would have it.. Tkarish dropped the MoD earring, and I was the only member at the raid who could use it /cheer.

First pet I summoned with it was Lost Soul, and I realized that it's max hit was only 107... wtf? With Ritual Summoning, that pet hits for 108... I haven't tested it with Dark Assassin yet, but I'll wager that it hits for less than 115 now. Thanks, Sony, for once again taking something nice and screwing it up (don't even get me started on what happened to my Anguish augs after they redid the Anguish Item Database... not to mention Sony's reply to that little issue heh).

I'm not sure if it's been bugged for a long time, or if it's a recent -feature-. In any case, grats Sony: /bug (not like I really expect them to fix it anytime soon, if ever).

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[young_necro]

They've been aware of the problem for a long time. A looooooooong time... Was broken after omens release? Whatever it was, it's been messed up for months and as far as I know, there has been no word on it.

This patch cycle was almost 7.5 weeks (upcoming on 12/15), and the one on 10/25 wasn't that hot.

I hope there's a lot going into this one... :(

[Aryse Andenter]

Hmmm, seems to me that's been broken as long as PVP RESISTS ON OMEN'S SPELLS... HELLOOOOOOO... Is Anybody Out There? I do not like having to keep old spells loaded because the new ones will not land at all... on a PvP server it means I have to use old spells against new mobs. Very not cool.

What with all the things like this, and the massive amount of Tradeskill changes promised for the next patch it should be a monster one.

[Xelgadis]

I've seen alot of issues with the Omens spells. About the only thing really cool that I've seen come out of the OoW spells is that Ancient: Curse of Mori is on a seperate recast timer from the rest of the curse line of DoTs; so it is possible to stack the Ancient, Dark Nightmare, and Horror (dagger click) for rather sick dps on low MR mobs.

I do find it rather annoying that there's raid targets that Horror and the Ancient land on every time.. but Dark Nightmare.. is 100% resisted. It's not just the curse line, I see that with most every line of DoTs. For the most part, I see this restriced to OoW raid mobs, but I've seen it happen several times in Txevu and Tacvi too, it's getting old fast.

I often question why Sony bothers to beta test new expansions, and why they even have a QA team. If anyone recalls the problem from last summer where PoK would randomly lock clients up.. that problem was on the live servers for weeks, and transversed several patches, before it got fixed. The kicker is that Sony never discovered the problem on their own, it was some random player who decided to run a debugger and saw that the client was locking itself in an endless loop while trying to load a texture that did not exist. /golfclap Sony.

[Xelgadis]

Update: Post 12-15 Patch

It seems that the max damage numbers between pets summoned with Ritual Summoning, and those summoned with Minion of Discord, have been reversed. Another one of those silent changes that was neglected to be noted in the patch message.