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Plant Growth

zophar#2540 zophar
zophar#2540
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in General Discussion (PlayStation®4)
Has anyone else noticed any damage issues with plant growth recently? I play a 17K trapper and have been playing since mod 6. In the last two weeks I have noticed my plant growth damage hitting for 90-130K and spiking around 150ish. Prior to that I consistently hit for 180-220K with spikes right at 300k. This is solo running Kessel's. I have not changed any equipment, build, or rotation. Constricting arrow, hindering shot both still hit within the same range as before. CoA is also off by about 100K. Any thoughts?

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  • mebengalsfan#9264 mebengalsfan
    mebengalsfan#9264
         Member Posts: 3,169 Arc User
    edited April 2018
    zophar#2540 said:

    Has anyone else noticed any damage issues with plant growth recently? I play a 17K trapper and have been playing since mod 6. In the last two weeks I have noticed my plant growth damage hitting for 90-130K and spiking around 150ish. Prior to that I consistently hit for 180-220K with spikes right at 300k. This is solo running Kessel's. I have not changed any equipment, build, or rotation. Constricting arrow, hindering shot both still hit within the same range as before. CoA is also off by about 100K. Any thoughts?

    Mod 12.5 bondings were adjusted and that significantly lowered the power you got from companions. If you had 6K power on your companion in mod 12 you got 17,100 and now that same 6K power provides 10800 with R13 enchantments. So the more power you had on your companion the less you get now. That is a big loss in damage when soloing content.
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  • zophar#2540 zophar
    zophar#2540
         Member Posts: 7 Arc User
    This is all post 12.5 update. Just last two weeks. All numbers are solo runs. What is interesting is that I went back and compared a strong hold dummy test I did back in Feb to one now and on the dummies I hit the same as before. Plant growth hits 180-220 and 290-336 with all buffs activated. I also compared to my fastest Kessels run of 5:28 from Feb and plant growth was hitting those numbers then and is not now. Not sure what it is but in two weeks with no character changes I went from clearing Kessels in under 6m to under 8m and it is all one encounter power.
  • mebengalsfan#9264 mebengalsfan
    mebengalsfan#9264
         Member Posts: 3,169 Arc User
    zophar#2540 said:

    This is all post 12.5 update. Just last two weeks. All numbers are solo runs. What is interesting is that I went back and compared a strong hold dummy test I did back in Feb to one now and on the dummies I hit the same as before. Plant growth hits 180-220 and 290-336 with all buffs activated. I also compared to my fastest Kessels run of 5:28 from Feb and plant growth was hitting those numbers then and is not now. Not sure what it is but in two weeks with no character changes I went from clearing Kessels in under 6m to under 8m and it is all one encounter power.

    It might not be you but your companion. I run into issues with my companion quite frequently on PS4. My CW, GF, and DC all have this issue. I guess my other characters do as well but those three are the ones I run T9 with regularly.

    The companion gift shows up but I do not get the buff from the gift at times or the buff is only 50% of what I should get.

    For instance, my base Crit chance is 17K and companion has 6.1K crit. With R13 bonding I should be getting over 28K crit but there are time when I only get 23K crit and my power only jumps up by another 7k (the base power for my companion). Instead of getting the full 180% of my companion stats I get only 100%. Not sure why that is but it happens pretty regularly. I have to unsummon and resummon my companion to resolve this issue.

    Try this and let me know if it fixes your issue.
  • zophar#2540 zophar
    zophar#2540
         Member Posts: 7 Arc User
    Not sure why it would only impact one encounter power but I will test it out. Typically if I have a bonding issue I see it right away because of my critical strike chance. I am trapper with skirmishers gambit so I notice the 10% crit chance loss right away w/o bonding and I am criting just fine, does not mean it is not a power issue, but my other encounters are hitting where they should. I have looked at my power and I also really do not see anything that seems out of place there either. Bonded(r14s,all leg comps) and buffed I hit 74K power, 97.4% crit (99% w/ bm or potion), 157% crit sev w/o unp dread, rec 6.5K(I need more than normal to have no enc power downtime), and 86.4% arm pen. It is only Plant Growth that I see any issues with. AoS, Master Trapper, TBS, Orcus Set (or Dex set, I swap depending) are all working as I would expect. Just as important with trapper it is not my rotation, this is the only character and build I play. I would expect a drop off if I was not maxing AoS on my rotation, but I always PG and CoA at m2 r2/r1 AoS. Sometimes r2 is constricting because of distance. If no one else is seeing an issue it has to be something specific to my character/equipment/build. Thanks for your input!
  • mebengalsfan#9264 mebengalsfan
    mebengalsfan#9264
         Member Posts: 3,169 Arc User
    zophar#2540 said:

    Not sure why it would only impact one encounter power but I will test it out. Typically if I have a bonding issue I see it right away because of my critical strike chance. I am trapper with skirmishers gambit so I notice the 10% crit chance loss right away w/o bonding and I am criting just fine, does not mean it is not a power issue, but my other encounters are hitting where they should. I have looked at my power and I also really do not see anything that seems out of place there either. Bonded(r14s,all leg comps) and buffed I hit 74K power, 97.4% crit (99% w/ bm or potion), 157% crit sev w/o unp dread, rec 6.5K(I need more than normal to have no enc power downtime), and 86.4% arm pen. It is only Plant Growth that I see any issues with. AoS, Master Trapper, TBS, Orcus Set (or Dex set, I swap depending) are all working as I would expect. Just as important with trapper it is not my rotation, this is the only character and build I play. I would expect a drop off if I was not maxing AoS on my rotation, but I always PG and CoA at m2 r2/r1 AoS. Sometimes r2 is constricting because of distance. If no one else is seeing an issue it has to be something specific to my character/equipment/build. Thanks for your input!

    How about the boon from Sharandar that builds up power. If you have not reached max stacks for this boon it will hurt your baseline damage. If you start your rotation off with plant growth that could be another issue as well. Do you also have the Rampage Madness boon? If so, and it does not proc for you that is another power loss.

    Are you running Aspect of the Pack? Did you put 4 points into it recently by accident, I heard that can lower your damage as well.
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  • zophar#2540 zophar
    zophar#2540
         Member Posts: 7 Arc User
    So here is what I have figured out. On occasion after master trapper procs, biting snare is procing again immediately after stance change and is actually canceling master trapper out / even removes the buff icon. It does not happen at all in the strong hold, but in other combat it is happening. I put in a support ticket to atleast inform the devs. I can temp work around it by leading with hindering strike and reprocing mt before PG. Not sure what is causing it to happen.
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