Power Word Kill since U14.2

[DeafeningWhisper]

Okay so I did a few challenges this weekend to upgrade an item or 2, I duoed on my PM with a buddies monk, everything went fine then I realised something.

Power Word Kill does nothing at all, no casting animation, no roll for spell resistance and no kill obviously... Just a loss of sp and it goes on timer.

I wasn't getting hit and failling a concentration check, I didn't try to kill something with DW on (FoD worked just fine on the mob), wasn't out of range or anything like that, heck didn't even have lag!

So anyone else got this? I haven't played since U14.2 on my PM so I don't know if this is wide spread or a challenge only thing.

[DarkForte]

Haven't noticed anything wrong with my power words (will probably check it later just for sure).

[Puppetian]

Was working just fine for me yesterday, didn't try it today.

[DeafeningWhisper]

Humm, maybe it's something in the Cannith challenges that prevents PWK but not FoD...

[Loriac]

Humm, maybe it's something in the Cannith challenges that prevents PWK but not FoD...

I was doing one of the challenges today, and I noticed that with FoD you see if a mob has deathward up, but PWK didn't give the notification (this was in time is money, level 21, vs. the hill giant shaman who always seems to have it up).

PWK worked fine on trash mobs, but on the hill giant shaman I didn't get any notification that it had been prevented by the deathward; perhaps this is the bug?

[DeafeningWhisper]

I was doing one of the challenges today, and I noticed that with FoD you see if a mob has deathward up, but PWK didn't give the notification (this was in time is money, level 21, vs. the hill giant shaman who always seems to have it up).

PWK worked fine on trash mobs, but on the hill giant shaman I didn't get any notification that it had been prevented by the deathward; perhaps this is the bug?

I don't think so, I did Labor Shortage, Time is Money and Collosal Crystals had the same problem on pretty much everything. Eventually I went on a few "test runs" casted PWK on a scorp/arcanoloth/drow and nothing happened then used FoD and it died, same with Circle of Death and Wail, it was literaly like PWK was doing nothing.


Wait, I did just get the destiny enhancement that reduces fort after using a necro spell maybe there a bug with that, wouldn't be the first destiny related bug.

[Siro]

Could be the long running spell lag issue. Basically you cast a spell, it goes on timer. Sometimes the animation plays sometimes it doesn't, regardless the effect doesn't go off. An obvious tell for when this happens is if you're moving while casting and don't slow down at all. While the spell appears on timer, you can cast it again and have it go off without additional sp usage (when the problem is this bug).

[DeafeningWhisper]

Could be the long running spell lag issue. Basically you cast a spell, it goes on timer. Sometimes the animation plays sometimes it doesn't, regardless the effect doesn't go off. An obvious tell for when this happens is if you're moving while casting and don't slow down at all. While the spell appears on timer, you can cast it again and have it go off without additional sp usage (when the problem is this bug).

Thought about it too, but I kept spamming Meteor Swarm on the armors in Labor Shortage and they didn't fizzle out which is what usually happens when that bug starts showing up.

Maybe it "is" that bug that just coincidently happened on PWK only, that or I'm cursed or something.

[Ranncore]

Ive noticed this a lot with other insta kill spells like Destruction, and I'm pretty sure that it's simply not showing the Deathward animation.
This is related to another post I made about Dispel Magic not working properly, but I haven't really done any extensive testing on it.

Frankly, I'm kind of sick of beta testing this game.

[350zguy]

I've noted a few spell target issues... But nothing major.

I attributed it to lag at the moment, because I've used a full compliment of spells over the last week.

-Me

[azrael4h]

I've used PWK repeatedly on my Sorc, and two guildies with high-level Wizards have as well, as late as Sunday. However, I did have a spectacularly bad run in Into the Deep in which it seemed like nearly every spell I cast, whether I was near or far to a mob, AoE or single target, Repair for the WF Barb or buff, simply did not cast. I got the casting animation, the sp loss, and that's it. No effect.

The entire time, I had no usual lag indications, like rubberbanding. I got fed up with it after awhile, and switched to a different character. When I logged back in later on my Wizard to help a guildy flag for VoN, everything worked as before.

So it could be the game "eating" your spells, and not a problem with the spell itself or Bad-Game-Design-Ward.

[Tenlaar]

I had an issue with this last night as well. Trying to lay down a disco ball and had to try four times before it actually worked. First three casts were animation, timer, SP gone, not being hit, no disco ball.

[1nth]

I've been seeing this on Dol Dorn's Champion, radiant burst/aura, destruction/slay living and a few others. The spell is used up and doesn't cast. Second and subsequent tries work for the rest of the game session untill i log off. Next ddo session, even if it's immediately after the first as a relog, it happens again. I've started throwing the wrath of the divine, every spell and ability cast once each for both defense and offense, at the "four standard vale rats" at the start of each session and it seems to work well enough.
1nth

[Morbleue]

Had also some bugs in Cannith Challenges. Spells not affecting armors and other trash - total strange immunity. I restarted the game. It solved the issue.

My 2 pences.

[oweieie]

PWK is working for me outside of challenges. Getting plenty of spell not going off for various things though, delayed blast fireball being number 1, but trying to go into form is another.

[pasterqb]

Yugoloths are immune to all Power Word spells

[knightgf]

Yugoloths are immune to all Power Word spells

Your source?

[luvirini]

Your source?

The Yugoloths we have in DDO are Arcanaloths, and they are supposed to be immune to mind affecting effects.

http://ddowiki.com/page/Arcanaloth

and the power word spells are all mind affecting:

http://ddowiki.com/page/Power_Word:_Blind

http://ddowiki.com/page/Power_Word:_Stun

http://ddowiki.com/page/Power_Word:_Kill


So if everything is "working as it should", they should be immune....

[oweieie]

Yes, it frequently fails for no reason and has for months. It is bugged.

[psi0nix]

Can't say I've been having too much trouble with it, I do notice that sometimes a spell or potion will go through the motions of casting / drinking, will use mana / the pot, and nothing happens, nothing at all. So I guess it could be the same thing.

[BlueSilence]

Can't say I've been having too much trouble with it, I do notice that sometimes a spell or potion will go through the motions of casting / drinking, will use mana / the pot, and nothing happens, nothing at all. So I guess it could be the same thing.

This.

I insist there are still issues regarding action bar interaction.

[Lifespawn]

Okay so I did a few challenges this weekend to upgrade an item or 2, I duoed on my PM with a buddies monk, everything went fine then I realised something.

Power Word Kill does nothing at all, no casting animation, no roll for spell resistance and no kill obviously... Just a loss of sp and it goes on timer.

I wasn't getting hit and failling a concentration check, I didn't try to kill something with DW on (FoD worked just fine on the mob), wasn't out of range or anything like that, heck didn't even have lag!

So anyone else got this? I haven't played since U14.2 on my PM so I don't know if this is wide spread or a challenge only thing.


tl;dr all the posts but challenges have the old epic ward still they don't care about challenges so they won't fix them other than to nerf them more and more