Dragon made Damage Crystals

[Dacurly]

Not sure if this is a bug or meant to be this way, but it seems like the Dragon damage crystals (ie Violet Damage Crystal of Flame) don't work with a Bow. Not 100% sure if I get the damage boost, but I know for sure it don't change the damage to flame. It may be just the Violet Damage Crystal of Flame that is bugged, have not checked any other ones.

[LOVWYRM]

Malicore once told me , he can`t use them.
I`ll try to contact him, to ask what he found out about that issue

[Cegaiel]

Works fine for me. I tried both Violet Ice and Flame crystals using an unteched Fine Maple Short Bow. I'm wondering if something on your bow is conflicting. What bow are you using and what all techs do you have on it? I'll try your setup.

[Cegaiel]

Also advise of any socket crystals you might be using. Will want to test all possible scenarios.

[Tilithia]

And doesn't Lightning Arrows 3 change your damage type?

[Dacurly]

Yup Salwirk is right, it is Lighting Arrows that conflicts with it, Ice Arrows does the same thing. Something I noticed while testing is that the details for both Lighting Arrows and Ice Arrows would not come up (maybe just me its not working for, not sure) and you can't remove the Dragon crystal or replace it with a different one. Makes it hard to change crystals if you are doing low damage because the mob is resistant to that type of attack.

[Dacurly]

Did some more testing and it seems the Damage Crystal of Flame wont change out with other Crystals, but others will. Tried Damage Crystal of Spirit and then Damage Crystal of Primal and they changed fine. Oh and the Details came up for Lighting Arrows and Ice Arrows after I re-logged.

[Guaran]

The Lightning Arrows, Ice Arrows, Spirit Arrows, Flame Arrows all over-ride the dmg conversion of the dragon crafted crystals.

Not sure if that was by design or not.

From my experience, the damage type doesn't change, but the added damage is there.

[Cegaiel]

You said the Crystal of Flame won't change out, but it does for me. I do notice that if you try to use a lower tiered version, it will gives an error. As you see in this log, I was casting Violet Damage Crystal of Ice and Fire, back and forth a few times. Decided to throw a lowered tiered (Titian) crystal of Ice into the mix, that's when I got that error.

I think it's kind of like most Spells, like buffs. If you have True Grit V or Gift of Speed 5 cast and someone comes up and tries to cast True Grit IV or Gift of Speed IV on you, then it gives similar error (failed), since usually you wouldn't want someone overwriting your good buffs with weaker ones.




[06/22/15 22:07:50] You began using Violet Damage Crystal of Flame.

[06/22/15 22:07:51] You used Violet Damage Crystal of Flame.

[06/22/15 22:08:01] You began using Violet Damage Crystal of Ice.

[06/22/15 22:08:02] Violet Damage Crystal of Flame has faded.

[06/22/15 22:08:02] Your speed is reduced by 45 percent due to overburdening.

[06/22/15 22:08:02] You used Violet Damage Crystal of Ice.

[06/22/15 22:08:59] You began using Violet Damage Crystal of Flame.

[06/22/15 22:09:00] Violet Damage Crystal of Ice has faded.

[06/22/15 22:09:00] You used Violet Damage Crystal of Flame.

[06/22/15 22:09:13] You began using Titian Damage Crystal of Ice.

[06/22/15 22:09:14] Titian Damage Crystal of Ice failed because Bam has Violet Damage Crystal of Flame.

[06/22/15 22:09:14] You used Titian Damage Crystal of Ice.

[06/22/15 22:09:39] You began using Violet Damage Crystal of Ice.

[06/22/15 22:09:40] Violet Damage Crystal of Flame has faded.

[06/22/15 22:09:40] You used Violet Damage Crystal of Ice.

[06/22/15 22:09:40] Your speed is reduced by 44 percent due to overburdening.

[06/22/15 22:09:49] You began using Violet Damage Crystal of Flame.

[06/22/15 22:09:50] Violet Damage Crystal of Ice has faded.

[06/22/15 22:09:50] You used Violet Damage Crystal of Flame.

[06/22/15 22:11:47] You began using Titian Damage Crystal of Ice.

[06/22/15 22:11:48] Titian Damage Crystal of Ice failed because Bam has Violet Damage Crystal of Flame.

[06/22/15 22:11:48] You used Titian Damage Crystal of Ice.

[06/22/15 22:11:48] Your speed is reduced by 43 percent due to overburdening.

[06/22/15 22:11:53] You began using Violet Damage Crystal of Ice.

[06/22/15 22:11:54] Violet Damage Crystal of Flame has faded.

[06/22/15 22:11:54] You used Violet Damage Crystal of Ice.

[Dacurly]

Well that probably is the issue, not sure if I have all level 100 crystals, will check when I get back in game. Most likely it was level 80 crystals that would not change out, Thanks Cegaiel for pointing that out. Guess I should have checked closer what was going on, my bad
Still wish it was possible to remove the Crystal like you can with other buffs. But that might be hard to code in, will have to live with it.

[Cegaiel]

By popular request, Effects will be removable on upcoming delta this week. Blight first, then live shards.

They originally weren't able to be removed due to the way the sim handled the dual effects (positive and negative), but it's working proper now.