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Thread: Shield of Gold vs Multicast ( with Ethereal Damage)? [Resolved]

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    Default Shield of Gold vs Multicast ( with Ethereal Damage)? [Resolved]

    I've more or less noticed and tested more than once since well... A year or 2 ago? That Multicasting an ability and that ability being ethereal in damage due to either a buff which makes it ethereal or it being ethereal in nature, against a dragon with Shield of Gold, kills said dragon despite the damage shown in the chat box not even reaching half of said dragon's hp bar.

    Example:

    Perfect Spell (to be sure it hits), Fusion Burn + Multicast IV + Fiery Strike V (or volcano) against a dragon with 4000 hp shows the following:

    Dragon Used Shield of Gold
    You used Perfect Spell.
    You used Fusion Burn.
    You used Multicast IV
    You began casting Volcano on Dragon.

    Dragon died.
    You hit Dragon with Volcano for 2 flame damage
    You hit Dragon with Volcano for 7 flame damage
    You hit Dragon with Volcano for 10 flame damage
    You hit Dragon with Volcano for 200 flame damage
    You hit Dragon with Volcano for 400 flame damage
    You hit Dragon with Volcano for 800 flame damage

    That's 1 419 damage dealt according to the combat log. The Dragon died though.

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    Last edited by flamefeniks; August 3rd, 2017 at 03:30 AM. Reason: Picture not working
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    Default Re: Shield of Gold vs Multicast ( with Ethereal Damage)?

    Just made a PowerPoint because it's easier to show the pictures lol.
    https://1drv.ms/p/s!AtFwRJz-u_EQmHHe7t64ATwQ2o_z
    Ignore the awful look of it though. Haha

    Seems once a spell goes ethereal (I'm not sure about normal attacks, since at the moment I don't got a way to test non-spell attacks with ethereal damage) and is cast onto a target with Shield of Gold with Multicast, it shows a different damage value than the damage dealt.
    Not so sure without multicast however, haven't tried that.
    (I've made a ticket or 2 once long ago but noticed it's still the same )

    Oh fun thing, for those thinking that's only with a ped against a dragon in the arena... Valkor, any undead spell caster really or mob that can use spells & multicast (and most likely ethereal damage: fusion burn)
    Makes the same thing happen to your dragon, feel free to try it out.
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    Default Re: Shield of Gold vs Multicast ( with Ethereal Damage)?

    I'm pretty sure, after several test with debug prints, I've got a grasp of whats going on. I've passed my notes off to tech team. Thanks for the details.
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    Default Re: Shield of Gold vs Multicast ( with Ethereal Damage)?

    That's nice to hear
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    Default Re: Shield of Gold vs Multicast ( with Ethereal Damage)?

    This has finally been tracked down. There will be a sim update to blight shard today or tomorrow that will fix this issue with the Multicast and Shield of Gold (but won't appear on Live Shards quite yet).

    The problem was that the Shield of Gold was being applied 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 times to the combat results.

    So you can see that the first pass through combat results, shield of gold is applied to the first result.

    Next pass through, shield of gold is applied to the first result -again- and then applied to the next result.

    Next pass through, shield of gold is applied to the first result -again- (so a third time), to the second result -again (a second time), and then to the third result. etc.


    Players are going to notice that Shield of Gold will show much less reduced numbers, but those are now correct numbers.
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