0016518: [AM] “Empowered Lores” - Career Mechanic Tactic | Limited Functionality - Return of Reckoning Bugtracker

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0016518	Return of Reckoning	General	public	2023-08-13 04:10	2023-12-09 15:18

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Priority	normal	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	have not tried
Status	closed	Resolution	open

Summary	0016518: [AM] “Empowered Lores” - Career Mechanic Tactic \| Limited Functionality
Description	Reporter: snugglerays [1st(EL.1o5T.RL).mp4.zip](https://github.com/WarEmu/WarBugs/files/4535353/1st.EL.1o5T.RL.mp4.zip) [2nd(EL.1o5TF.BoI.BE).mp4.zip](https://github.com/WarEmu/WarBugs/files/4535355/2nd.EL.1o5TF.BoI.BE.mp4.zip) [3rd(EL.1o5T.ST).mp4.zip](https://github.com/WarEmu/WarBugs/files/4535356/3rd.EL.1o5T.ST.mp4.zip) [4th(EL.5o5F.BoI).mp4.zip](https://github.com/WarEmu/WarBugs/files/4535357/4th.EL.5o5F.BoI.mp4.zip) [5th(EL.0o5N.FE).mp4.zip](https://github.com/WarEmu/WarBugs/files/4535358/5th.EL.0o5N.FE.mp4.zip) Expected Behavior Hello, First the descriptions of both the tactic “Empowered Lores” (EL) and the Career Mechanic (CM) “High Magic” (HM) to refresh our memory, the tooltip of which can also be seen in the provided videos. CM HM: “Build up Tranquility to improve your damaging spells, or build up Force to improve the casting time and action point cost of your spells by 40% and improve the potency of instant spells by 25%. Your High Magic will quickly fade once combat is over. EL: Whenever you critically hit with an ability that builds either Force or Tranquility, you will gain one additional point. Tactic can not trigger more than once every 3 seconds. Summary EL does not always trigger, in most cases does not trigger at all and in one case triggers as intended. All tests were done at the dummy in Altdorf and other NPCs. I Tested all of the CM HM abilities that could build either Tranquility (T) or Force (F), “Shield of Saphery” and “Cleansing Light” for example did not trigger EL, as expected . None of the hots, including the hot part of “Healing Energy”, “Lingering Energy”and dots, including the aoe dot “Dissipating Energies”, are working with EL and I cannot explicitly remember them working on Live, so this write up is going to focus on the direct hitting abilities, including the two channeled abilities “Searing Touch” and “Funnel Essence”. I could not test the aoe lifetap ability “Energy of Vaul”, simply because I couldn't get it to produce any critical hits ever on any targets hit. Actual Behavior with two Examples Using the example of a direct hitting ability which builds Tranquility (T), “Boon of Hysh”, which can only possibly crit once, you would get an additional point (2 total) when it crits at 0/5 Neutral (N) for 2/5 T, at 1/5 Force (F) for 2/5 T, at 1/5 T for 3/5 T, at 2/5 T for 4/5 T, and 3/5 T ending up with 5/5 T. In reality “Boon of Hysh” in testing does produce only 1 point of T at 1/5 F for 1/5 T and works on all other levels, except for consuming 2 points of F on a crit at 5/5 F for 3/5 F. An example of a channeled ability that would also trigger the 3 second rule of EL is “Searing Touch”. This ability could produce up to 3 F points on it's up to 4 potential hits over 6 seconds. It wouldn't need to crit with it's first hit either, a critical hit on the 2nd and 4th hit would net the full 3 points. This ability when critically hitting ideally will produce 3 points at 0/5 N for 3/5 F, at 1/5 T for 3/5 F, at 1/5 F for 4/5 F and at 2/5 F ending up with 5/5 F. In testing “Searing Touch” will work on all levels except at 1/5 T where the first hit will never trigger the bonus point, but will trigger the 3 second cooldown. So the only way to get the maximum possible amount of points (3) at 1/5 T for 3/5 F would need a crit on the 2nd and 4th hit, because of the 3 second cooldown of EL. Findings Lets start with the one ability that seems to work flawlessly all the time, which is „Radiant Lance“. It triggers all the times it should and always adds 2 points of Force when it triggers EL through a crit. This one ability might serve as a template for a fix. Example video 1st(EL.1o5T.RL).mp4.zip In this video radiant lance produces the correct amount of points on a crit (2) at 1/5T for 2/5 F. Next lets get the abilities out of the way which do no not trigger EL at all. They are: Healing: “Funnel Essence” Damaging: “Fury of Asuryan” “Cleansing Flare” “Storm of Cronos” “Law of Gold” They are all Mastery abilities. Example video 5th(EL.0o5N.FE).mp4.zip In this video the ability “Funnel Essence” is shown to not trigger EL on a critical hit, only producing 1 point from 0/5 N for 1/5 T. 0/5 N – Abilities that will trigger EL correctly giving 2 points with a crit with HM being neutral Healing: “Boon of Hysh” “Blessing of Isha” “Healing Energy” Lifetap: “Balance Essence” Damaging: “Searing Touch” “Radiant Lance” One exception here is the channeled ability “Searing Touch” which correctly does trigger EL up to 2 times for 3 F points total, in accordance with the “once every 3 seconds” rule and thanks to it's up to 4 hits over 6 seconds. 1/5 T/F – At this T/F Level abilities that would be buffed and consume a point would also give one (2 with EL on crit). Out of all the AM CM abilities that could possibly trigger EL, only “Radiant Lance” does trigger EL correctly on a crit and correctly builds to 2/5 F from 1/5T. “Searing Touch” here at 1/5 T will never get the bonus point on a first hit crit, while still triggering the 3 second cooldown of EL, which will make the HM end up mostly at 1/5 F and 2/5 F. Getting 3 points With “Searing Touch” is still possible, but only when the 2nd and 4th hit are crits. Example video 2nd(EL.1o5TF.BoI.BE).mp4.zip Here the abilities “Blessing of Isha” and “Balance Essence” are shown producing the incorrect amount of points, while being cast at the HM levels 1/5 T and 1/5 F only giving 1 point on a crit. Example video 3rd(EL.1o5T.ST).mp4.zip In this video “Searing Touch” is shown to not produce the expected bonus point on it's first crit, while still triggering the 3 second cooldown of EL, thus getting it's first bonus point on the 3rd hit crit for a total of 2/5 F instead of 3/5 F. 1/5 T, 2/5 T, 3/5 T – T abilities that will trigger EL correctly giving 2 points a crit for 3/5T, 4/T, 5/5 T “Boon of Hish” “Blessing of Isha” “Healing Energy” 1/5 F, 2/5 F, 3/5 F – F abilities that will trigger EL correctly giving 2 points a crit for 3/5 F, 4/5 F, 5/5 F “Balance Essence” “Radiant Lance” “Searing Touch” One exception here again is the channeled ability “Searing Touch” which correctly does trigger EL up to 2 times for 3 F points total, in accordance with the “once every 3 seconds” rule and thanks to it's up to 4 hits over 6 seconds. Lastly a list of abilities which do not consume the appropriate amount of F points when cast at 5/5 F and land a critical hit “Boon of Hysh” “Blessing of Isha” “Healing Energy” All 3 of these F consuming abilities consume 2 points of F on a crit at 5/5 F for 3/5 F, at all other levels they consume the correct amount of one points. Without EL slotted the correct amount is consumed. Example video 4th(EL.5o5F.BoI).mp4.zip This video shows the ability “Blessing of Isha” consuming 2 F points through EL from 5/5 F to 3/5 F. Reproduction For testing I was using the tactics “Master of Tranquility”, “Master of Force”, “Restorative Burst” and “Empowered Lores” You will need an AM that is of high enough level to access all abilities talked about You will need to have the CM tactic “Empowered Lores” slotted. It is recommended to have the tactics “Master of Tranquility” and “Master of Force” slotted for easier testing. You will need an enemy target to cast your damaging abilities on, either npc or player. If you may, please use the videos as guidance for reproduction. They can be viewed without unpacking them, in a video client such as VideoLan or mpv. All the listed issues I could reliably reproduce. I kindly ask you to please look into this. Kind regards
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2023-08-13 04:10	ReturnOfReckoning	New Issue
2023-08-13 04:10	ReturnOfReckoning	Tag Attached: Ability
2023-12-09 15:18	MaxHayman	Note Added: 0041155
2023-12-09 15:18	MaxHayman	Status	new => closed