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Nibor
01-05-2013, 12:20 PM
After playing a druid partway into epic levels, I'm finding there's so many little problems with the various abilities, especially Crown of Summer and Summer Smoke. By far the biggest problem is from the Epic Destiny ability Summer Smoke, though.

Summer Smoke overwrites basically all other extra elemental damage on my pets - 2d6 light from Crown of Summer no longer procs, 2d4 fire from Fires of Purity doesn't proc, even the Shocking Burst on my dog's collar no longer procs. The icons aren't removed, but the damage doesn't happen anymore.

Also, Crown of Summer icon is hidden when you cast Tenacious Pack, because Tenacious Pack's 30% Healing Amp overrides the Crown of Summer 15% Healing Amp. You still get the 2d6 light damage to proc, you just can't tell by inspection which pet has the Crown.
Also, if you dismiss your pet while it is enchanted with the Crown of Summer, the Crown of Summer ability breaks (can't be given to anyone) until you logout/login.

Luckily spellcaster/summoner-style druid turned out to be pretty fun to play, but the various little bugs poke at you just about every session.

Nibor
01-05-2013, 12:26 PM
Oh, yeah, and Pack Aptitude is also broken, only gives +4 at max caster level instead of the written +6. I suppose capping at 9 minutes in length *might* be working as designed, but it's annoying as designed, if so.

Think I bug reported most of these, but hard to remember with all the bug reports I submitted over the past few weeks.

bartharok
01-05-2013, 01:23 PM
You can only have one temporary weapon enhancement at a time. The shocking burst (if it is from the item itself) should proc as usual, though

Missing_Minds
01-05-2013, 01:29 PM
Summer Smoke overwrites basically all other extra elemental damage on my pets
Try everyone in the party, not just your pets. It screws DPS as a whole.

Nibor
01-05-2013, 01:51 PM
You can only have one temporary weapon enhancement at a time. The shocking burst (if it is from the item itself) should proc as usual, though

It shouldn't be a temporary weapon enhancement; The Oncoming Storm abilities aren't, for example. It's a proc when an "ally near you" deals damage. And it's absolutely preventing Shocking Burst from a Collar, which it shouldn't at all.

If it were a temporary weapon enhancement, it should hide/cancel the icon for Fires of Purity, for example, and it doesn't. If it's supposed to, then the fact that it doesn't is a bug. But it's not worded as a "temporary weapon enhancement, only one can be in effect at a time" the way Fires of Purity and Crown of Summer are described.

Nibor
01-05-2013, 01:52 PM
Try everyone in the party, not just your pets. It screws DPS as a whole.

Yeah I only ran with it solo, wasn't sure if it clobbered the players, too. I've already reset out of it now.

Jhenissa
01-05-2013, 02:33 PM
The druid spell Fires of Purity does not play nice with Ghost Touch handwraps (big surprise!). Discovered this is on farming runs of Temple of Vol. Basically, the spell acts like a debuff ~ removing the ability to hit incorporeal beings.

Just a friendly message to druids ~ Please no fires of purity for monks when running incorporeal content.

Thanks