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"Smoke Bomb" Bug - unusable

hogarthundeadhogarthundead Posts: 7 Arc User
in Gameplay Bugs
I recently picked up smoke bomb while respeccing my electric DPS, and ended up with a completely wasted power point. It's cost is always more than my total energy because of my recovery stat and electricity powers... here is me getting it up as high as i can out of combat. 2015_07_31_00006.jpg

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  • hogarthundeadhogarthundead Posts: 7 Arc User
    A couple more pictures, showing me with and without electric form on and the power diff.

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  • hogarthundeadhogarthundead Posts: 7 Arc User
    Wow, just got the bad news, they responded to my petition and they aren't going to give me a respec. I wonder if they leave bugs like this in to make more money off of selling re-specs? They did suggest i just buy one from the z-store, so hey why fix a bug that you can make money off of i guess.
  • carrionbaggagecarrionbaggage Posts: 731 Community Moderator
    That's an interesting (though unfortunate) observation. It seems that Smoke Bomb's Energy cost does not respect the limit of a character's Energy total, when circumstances push the theoretical equilibrium beyond that limit. High Recovery, Electric Form, and Support role all appear to potentially cause this bug.

    I'll add this to the Known Power Bugs thread. Sorry to hear that you received an unhelpful response to your petition.​​
  • chaelkchaelk Posts: 7,746 Arc User
    edited August 2015
    you can retrain ingame with resources, you just go to the head trainer and remove powers backwards to that one.
    it says equilibrium, his equilibrium is higher than his energy total.

    so it needs to have added " but not greater than max energy"
    to give you an idea how far over you are. Here's my electric, minus her recovery gear.(primary utility only)
    NO Rec, End or Pre stat.
    I just stacked cost discount to make her work and overdrive as energy unlock.

    rec 30 gives +12 equilibrium giving her 95 equilibrium.
    with her full 92 Rec she gets +66. Giving her 149 out of 136
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    Post edited by chaelk on
    Stuffing up Freeform builds since Mid 2011
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  • avianosavianos Posts: 6,200 Arc User
    I noticed that bug while I was leveing my Blade with Nemesis Heirloom Gear
    Smoke Bomb was Unusable 90% of the time (except if someone in the PUG had AoPM)
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  • hasukurobihasukurobi Posts: 405 Arc User
    You know what the worst part is? Smoke Bomb is practically useless anyway. It really does not work very well at all. Smoke Grenade with Escape Artist is where it is at.
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