SW again bug on second destruction skill made after mindcontrol

Hello tech support

Making u aware of another bug i now found after a series of continous test done on my character over a period of 3 hours . The Sw massive damage skill , Destruction is not making any more damage if used second time after mindcontrol . I tested it Humpty no of time and nothing i see like no such skil used. this is what i did always and before successfully.
1. use Mindcontrol skill where there are lot of mobs or boss
2. Immediate within time frame use the Singularity
3. Immediate within the time frame successfully use the first Destruction skill so that u wont have cool down of second time using it .
4. If successful ( always successful in my case unless lagging) use second destruction and use other skills or evade techs as usual.
Now after latest patch , the 4th mentioned above doesnt anymore make damage on mobs which i noticed and did it several times before reporting here , and it is confirmed in my character . even i make that 4th one after several seconds or minutes the effect is same, no damage. so it is like no such skill used successfully . i hope u can resolve that bug as early as possible as it s a major blow to sw 2h damage makers existence in game

 

Hi @draco994 ,

I have tested your issue, but I couldn't reproduce any "bug", second destruction is working normally for me, so I would suggest you to upload a video for us to see what is going on if you're still having the same problem.

Thank you!

 

One problem is i dont have dso cam to make a video and no link to download it as far as i know, secondly i admit i dont know how to post a video in forum.. image itself i found after a long fight with the buttons above. would some pics i would try to take carry the message as i did in earlier post of chain lightning. if video is needed , i will try it with my mob cam but how and whr to send it is a prob still. mmh yeah i didnt post it just randomly, but after 3 hours and asking my friends in group to do the same. yes all of them didnt get it but some did get it too. so i will try to find new evidence to that. it may not be proper to allege something without solid proof, i got it , let me work on it.

 

Well i use 2 destruction in a row a lot as i have the second skill active (reduce cd for each mob hit) the second one does damage but there is another issue; if you hit more than 12 mobs the cd don't just go to 0, its starts cooling down again so if you hit 13 mobs instead of 12 you would get a cd reduction of 1 min 5 sec which the game then interprets as just a 5 sec reduction

 

Similar problem to me but i used mind control for 2nd guardian. The 2nd guardian casted and become in vain right after the first guardian disappear. This never happened before to me.

 

That's not a bug, you cannot have 2 guardians active at once (it is stated in the skill description). Try to increase the time between the successive guardian casts.

 

Sigh..., the thing with destruction is not only bound to the "astral phenomenon", sometimes you'd cast one normally and it won't do any damage at all, which is already listed here, also...

This combination seems to trigger a fail-guardian to me 100% of the time:

• Mind control w/astral phenomenon + Guardian + Singularity = Success on not activating any cooldown for singularity nor guardian, but, if I deploy another guardian after the first one expires, it fails, deploys nothing but activates the cooldown, and this is not lag bound nor to the fact that you can't have more than one guardian active at the same time (the person you replied to seems to be trying to deploy 2 at the same time, though).

There's another combo I've been able to test lately after reaching a decent attack speed, Mind control + Astral phenomenon and Singularity + Synchronicity. The scenario here is you use:

• Mind control + Singularity (away from you) + Singularity (on top of your toon)

This, if performed correctly, lets you use 2 singularities without activating the cooldown, and since one is on top of you, the synchronicity talent recharges your mind control by the time your first 2 singularities expire, which means you could chain this, again, in theory, endlessly as long as there's a target to mind control, but, after one or two tries, the singularities fail to deploy, your toon performs the animation but they simply don't appear and there's no effect, and of course the chain is broken.

In conclusion: the mind control + astral phenomenon combo is bogus as hell, works fine sometimes, other times fail after fail after fail.

The dissapearing singularity under normal use of it is also listed in the "known bugs" thread since July 22 2014, our bugs are turning more than 2 years old this year, yay!

 

Thanks for your answer; i know that we cannot have 2 guardians at the same time. However, the bug is that when casting another guardian after the first guardian vanished;the 2nd guardian disappear (NO any guardian show up!!!); . This is not the same before R161 hotfix#1. I have used this skill for long time, this is a "BUG"!!!

 

Sometimes the lag has great impact on your gameplay.

 

ok guys, i got the video now. but dont know how to post it in forum, it is 285 mb too. but it is clear, in stonekeep map, three times in same map i reproduce the bug. kindly tell me where i could post it to show it to all

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Oh yeah , i have seen that ,, but here it is not normal but continously getting if done on second destruction that too succesfuly done . means skill done but no damage only on second use only. not the first one.

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Here is the link guys.. you tube uploaded , i ripped the quality , if needed in original and not clear i will try the full but it is too heavy.

Any one saw the video. what u say now. ?

 

I confirmed the bug today again. The bug is on using the combination: Mind control+singularity+ guardian/destruction then the second guardian/destruction fail even the icon is activated (have to wait for mind control refresh to activate then second guardian/destruction can work). If use the combination: Mind control+guardian/destruction then the second guardian/destruction can work instantly. So, the bug is on the use of singularity within the combination. Hopefully, this bug can be corrected soon!!!!!

 

Thank you, i havent checked it without singu, i will do it today and report back but still i noticed one more thing . if u use mind control and singu on mobs and singu on our own char to cooldown skill and then u try to redo it once more , the singu will fail to appear .. like we havent done it but the singu wont be in cool down too. so that means that skill doesnt work in combo even second time. that is another bug.
I mean if we try to do it in chain the same process.

 

I can confirm the second destruction does not cause any damage. Even if second destruction is being casted 5 seconds after the first one in a mind control combo. You need to reset the mind control cooldown to be able to deal damage with destruction again.

I can also confirm the disappearing singularity, which now happens in ~30% of the cases. Moreover, in a combo MC-Singu-Singu, both singus will disappear. Moreover, even if you wait 5 seconds after first singu disappeared, placing the second one wont be successful, whatever place put it.

Previously I thought its about textures, but apparently it is not. Its about client-server sync. Something is wrong with MC on the server, and it doesnt properly reset when staying in singu, even though UI shows it does.

Tested 50 times today on q1m1, in the circle.
1. Combo MC-Singu-Singu will work.
2. Stay within singu to reset MC.
3. Repeat n1, both singus will dissappear.

And its not about lags, as thanks God/Quake we have latency compensation. In case of real lag, or a collision, it would be interrupted.

This is really really annoying, mage has become 50% useless in the team runs, especially the q1 circle, where you would expect to cast singus one by another.

I have mentioned this one 1 year ago somewhere, it was like that since introduction.

 

thanks bro, atlast, my finding comes true.. i am suffering this disability for long .. my favourite singu double destruction is now totally useless.. nothing can replace that best started damager..[/QUOTE]