Legit force trap damage in The Pit or bugged damage?

[knightgf]

Look at this:

http://i364.photobucket.com/albums/oo83/knightgf/ScreenShot00057.jpg

Normally, whenever I do the pit on elite, I get anywhere from 3-25 damage on the force traps there, with the ranges of the damage getting rare as you get closer to the min and max values. But if you look closely at this picture, out of nowhere, all that damage from the force trap DESTROYED me in one blow. I had no idea that was coming at me.

Is this legit damage for the force traps on elite? Or is this another bug that needs to be squashed?

[Daehawk]

I've heard of reports of this 'Uber Force trap' in there from people. I have never witnessed it happen to me on all my solo-elite runs. Guess it actually does exist.

Which area do you remember running into said uber force trap?

[Zombiekenny]

I hit that once as well. It is definitely there, and it really hurts. Whether it is intended or not is another question. The fact that it is very rare to hit it implies that perhaps one of the traps is set much higher than the others or something, and was possibly just set wrong?

[Crazyfruit]

If it's the one I'm thinking of, there's a big damage trap on the way to the first room you went to (ooze + lever puzzle). You don't have to go back there & can always avoid it unless going wrong way

edit: I don't mean the acid one, one of the force jet thingies

[Lithic]

There are a few of those traps that do REAL damage as in the OP. The majority are barely worthy of the name "lvl 1 wizard's magic missile" though, so most people can do the quest 3+ times without ever being hit by the major traps. Is it a bug? Dunno. But it adds a little danger to otherwise boring traps.

[knightgf]

I hit that once as well. It is definitely there, and it really hurts. Whether it is intended or not is another question. The fact that it is very rare to hit it implies that perhaps one of the traps is set much higher than the others or something, and was possibly just set wrong?

Unfortunately, the picture I took never was at the site of the incident, but when I was heading back up from lighting the second furnace I stumbled across it someplace. Doesnt help much, but at least you know where to go if you were a dev and looking for a bugged trap.

[Shade]

So if an elite trap kills you, it's buggeD?

But the ones that don't really do much damage, are good?

Does not compute.

[Vanshilar]

Either that or the trap did a critical hit, maybe it was using a heavy pick =P

Seriously, though, it's hard to know if one of the traps is buggy unless you remember where you were.

[Alanim]

If you take the ramp, right of the furnace room(coming out), you'll run into it at the top before it flattens out, there are 2-3 of them MAYBE more, that do extreme damage, 140-200ish damage. I assume that it's a bug.

[Timjc86]

There are a few specific traps sprinkled throughout the Pit which do real damage, as opposed to most which don't. I never thought of it as a bug, I just assumed it was an interesting little surprise.