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Plethora of Wizard Bugs - Recovery/PvP Set/Eye of the Storm
endlesspillows
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There are a lot of bugs that I have encountered.. that are fairly frustrating to play with, heh.
Beta is for reporting bugs, so here goes:
Wizard PvP 4-Piece set bonus - Does nothing. This is supposed to reduce the time it takes for an encounter power to cool down in your spell mastery slot by 25%. This does not reduce the cool down of any spell I place in the slot.
Eye of the Storm - This ability is supposed to make ALL of your attacks critical strikes while active. I find this passive only works on about 50% of all abilities. For a reference, Sudden Storm is not affected by Eye of the Storm.
Recovery and powers with "Charges" - If an ability has "Charges", it does not benefit from the recovery stat. For example, Ray of Enfeeblement, after recovery applied, has a theoretical cool down of 8 seconds. If you place the ability in your Spell Mastery slot, it gains an additional charge. However, both charges take 14 seconds to cool down (Completely unaffected by ANY recharge. Not from Major Stats, Feats, Set Bonuses or Recovery itself). This could be a global problem, as I have only tested it on my wizard.
All of these issues combined make for a pretty rough experience when you stack recovery and use the PvP set. Almost as if half of your items are doing nothing at all.
-- Additional Bugs --
Power Ranks - I'm not sure how many abilities this issue applies to.. but it's scary if we assume the worst. Out of the two powers that have been tested:
Ice Rays: 10% damage for rank 2 and 3. These rank ups DO NOT increase the damage of this ability.
Shard of the Endless Avalanche: 5 second cool down reduction for rank 2 and 3. These rank ups DO NOT reduce the cool down of this ability. <Falchoin>
Shard of the Endless Avalanche - Occasionally, SotEA does not summon when placed in the Spell Mastery Slot. Additionally, SotEA sometimes goes on full cool down and disappears without the wizard having interacted with it (I find this happens a lot if you lose control of your character right after summoning). Also, SotEA CANNOT critical strike (Even with Eye of the Storm active). <Falchoin>
Steal Time - If you cast Steam Time immediately proceeding a dodge, the cast animation for Steal Time will be interrupted. I find this to be the case for a lot of abilities, however Steal Time is unique in that it has a cast bar, and the ability is lost of this cast is canceled at any point. This is a 100% reoccurring bug. <Abw42/Th3mod>
Hopefully this is all resolved in the future, beta is beta. (Although I realize there are a lot of other higher priority issues, like the Smoke Bomb disconnections).
Thank you for your time.
Beta is for reporting bugs, so here goes:
Wizard PvP 4-Piece set bonus - Does nothing. This is supposed to reduce the time it takes for an encounter power to cool down in your spell mastery slot by 25%. This does not reduce the cool down of any spell I place in the slot.
Eye of the Storm - This ability is supposed to make ALL of your attacks critical strikes while active. I find this passive only works on about 50% of all abilities. For a reference, Sudden Storm is not affected by Eye of the Storm.
Recovery and powers with "Charges" - If an ability has "Charges", it does not benefit from the recovery stat. For example, Ray of Enfeeblement, after recovery applied, has a theoretical cool down of 8 seconds. If you place the ability in your Spell Mastery slot, it gains an additional charge. However, both charges take 14 seconds to cool down (Completely unaffected by ANY recharge. Not from Major Stats, Feats, Set Bonuses or Recovery itself). This could be a global problem, as I have only tested it on my wizard.
All of these issues combined make for a pretty rough experience when you stack recovery and use the PvP set. Almost as if half of your items are doing nothing at all.
-- Additional Bugs --
Power Ranks - I'm not sure how many abilities this issue applies to.. but it's scary if we assume the worst. Out of the two powers that have been tested:
Ice Rays: 10% damage for rank 2 and 3. These rank ups DO NOT increase the damage of this ability.
Shard of the Endless Avalanche: 5 second cool down reduction for rank 2 and 3. These rank ups DO NOT reduce the cool down of this ability. <Falchoin>
Shard of the Endless Avalanche - Occasionally, SotEA does not summon when placed in the Spell Mastery Slot. Additionally, SotEA sometimes goes on full cool down and disappears without the wizard having interacted with it (I find this happens a lot if you lose control of your character right after summoning). Also, SotEA CANNOT critical strike (Even with Eye of the Storm active). <Falchoin>
Steal Time - If you cast Steam Time immediately proceeding a dodge, the cast animation for Steal Time will be interrupted. I find this to be the case for a lot of abilities, however Steal Time is unique in that it has a cast bar, and the ability is lost of this cast is canceled at any point. This is a 100% reoccurring bug. <Abw42/Th3mod>
Hopefully this is all resolved in the future, beta is beta. (Although I realize there are a lot of other higher priority issues, like the Smoke Bomb disconnections).
Thank you for your time.
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Shard of the Endless Avalanche in the spell mastery slot sometimes does not summon at all, especially in low ceiling areas or next to walls. I think the shard is being summoned outside the map.
Occasionally Shard of the Endless Avalanche goes on its full cooldown before moving the shard at all.
The rank up information for Shard of the Endless Avalanche states each additional rank reduces the cooldown by 5 seconds. It does not.
I don't know if it's a bug but Shard of the Endless Avalanche does not crit.
Powers like Shield and Steal Time that have friendly effects can crit with said effects and proc the Nightmare Wizardry debuff on self or party members.
Now that you mention it, I did run into these issues with Shard of the Endless Avalanche, I don't know why I forgot to mention them. I'll add it above.
Also, some times when you drink a HP pot nothing happens, it goes on cooldown, consumes one pot but your HP won't move at all, which is really annoying!
And yes, there are times when our abilities do not crit even when the autocrit passive, eye of the storm, is active.
This is correct. You have to wait ~half a second after dodging before casting Steal Time or else the channelling is canceled immediately (Even if you stay completely stationary after the dodge).
That does seem like a global issue. And also frustrating due to the lack of consistency. At least you can manually fix this over time with muscle memory, unlike some of these other bugs
Does Arcane Presence work if it is in the top slot?
You can avoid the "hiccups" and delays in movement associated with double tapping by using the shift key while holding down a movement key. I found this out by accident after playing on my GWF as their dodge mechanic is designed to use the shift modifier. I logged onto my CW and hit shift by habit and the teleport still worked.
Also if you teleport and then click and hold your magic missile it skips the first 2 attack and goes right in to the triple shot. Something I am pretty sure shouldnt be happening. Even tho it is nice lol
PVPer rocking it Solo queue style since the dawn of Neverwinter
Ya.. The other bugs were annoying, but I assumed they will eventually be fixed (And I could just build around them for the time being). The PvP set was the one that disappointed me the most, which is why I made the thread.
So if you blink away (which is pretty much always in pvp) add a cold spell into your rotation...anything t all. At one point I used one cooldown to cast an arcane spell that grants a stack, and all my stacks fell off.
Considering this is where the majority of your damage comes from, and several spells either increase in length or are effected in some other way, not being able to retain the charges murders your damage in pvp.
Im not sure if this is because in pvp you don't "stay in combat", which would explain why you are able to mount up seconds after being attacked.
Either way, it needs to get fixed.
As far as I know, this is working as intended. Nothing implies that you should keep your stacks as long as you are in combat. The stacks simply have a duration that is refreshed when you cast another missile.
This is to actually add depth to the mechanic, like you said. You have to make choices, what spells do you want to augment with your stacks, or do you want to just keep them for MM damage.
The bug I encountered is the following:
When using Singularity, and throwing Avalanche into them from the moment of they are close to the hole and until they are dropped, it does no damage.
Also while Eye of Storm procs, nothing except atwills will crit. Maybe only Conduit of Ice.
And why didn't you post it in "Bugs" forums?
It always deals that tiny damage after initial hit whether there is a singularity or not.
Ive noticed Sudden Storm does not crit at all on initial damage, the tiny 12 damage after ticks can crit though. Not sure if this is intended but it makes sudden storm almost not worth it most of the time.
Issues I faced with this spell are ALL the mentioned ones in the first 2 posts.
There is also the issue of Tempest Magic and Bloodhunt (Tiefling racial) not working together. Bloodhunt is ignored instead of stacking with Tempest Magic.
Conduit of Ice, Icy Terrain, Sudden Storm and Arcane Singularity don't receive an increase in damage from Evocation or AoE damage feats Wizard's Wrath and Focused Wizardry. It seems they're not recognized as AoE effects.
Not sure it's a bug or simply a missing tooltip detail, but that's what I've noticed several times hitting packs of mobs and tracking my buffs.
I may be wrong though, needs more testing.