Trickster Rogue deflecting certain Buffs

hanfsalat · September 2015

A while ago I noticed something strange when I was in a group with a Guardian Fighter or someone with the Wheel of Elements Artifact. Sometimes Into the Fray or the Fire Buff from the artifact would disappear randomly, so I decided to take a closer look. The next few runs I observed the Buff-bar of my group members when the Guardian Fighter was casting Into the Fray. Everybody but me was keeping it for the whole duration. I joined another group with 3 TRs and voilà, the other Rogues lost Intro the Fray randomly as well. It appears that Trickster Rogue's can deflect some buffs. The only thing that distinguishes TRs from other classes is the higher deflection severity, so I think it's most likely a bug with the deflection severity.

Buffs affected from this Bug that I know of:
Into the Fray
Wheel of Elements: Fire

Here is a short video with the bug in action.

https://youtu.be/Z_T8UAX0Z5g

dsn1118 · September 2015

Yeah I saw one of myguildmate HR can do that too.I was buffing everyone but he kept doding half of my ITF buffs in eLoL run.I tried timing buffs with him but then I couldnt focus on tanking the mobs so I gave up buffing him

glyken · September 2015

anecdote from STO that may explain this:
Some STO damaging abilities (Tachyon Beam) are coded as negative heals for some reason.
Maybe in Neverwinter some buffs are considered negative debuffs, and therefore are triggering the evasions?

wentris · September 2015

Good catch!
This reminds me of conflict that was fixed some time ago - DC feat:"Cleanse" and OP temporary HP - the HP was seen by Cleanse as debuff and removed it.
And now: Into the fray - gives temp HP
Wheel of elements - the fire itself doesnt give temp HP, but Wheel as a whole has an option of temp HP buff.

Perhaps this is root of the problem - temp HP is a "negative effect" from game point of view.

Trickster Rogue deflecting certain Buffs

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