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J1NG
12-21-2016, 08:14 PM
Can't remember if I posted this before, but here it is again.

So, I had a quick feat swap to try something out on Live I forgot to on Lamannia. Went to Fred. Swapped out Path of Light for Path of Darkness on my Monk, used Astral Shards (15), and it says it'll need to reset Enhancements/Destinys as well. Fine I'm thinking I'll just reallocate points afterwards.

All goes as planned. Except other than the 15 Astral Shards, Fred also took 15 for each Destiny that was reset too. (Even though Fred says the Feat was a pre-req for something in those Destinys, I'm fairly certain no Destiny is related to the Monk Path Feat). A total of 45 Astral Shards were taken, of which only 15 was expected to be taken (for the Feat only). The other automatically reset Destinys (two of them, Unyielding Sentinel and Primal Avatar) without even listing that these shards will be taken as well.

Can I get an official confirmation from the Devs that this is normal (15 Astral Shards for Feat Swap ends up being more for each Destiny that apparently needs to reset as well, as well as not giving any indication that these will take 15 Astral Shards each?)? Or is it a bug? As the helpful (and I mean helpful, not in an ironic way helpful) Agent who handled my ticket over this matter also wrote that in the future this (returning of any Astral Shards taken in this fashion) may not get rectified (returned).

J1NG

PS. How exactly does Fred feel that Path of Light/Darkness is related to any Destiny that they need to be reset as well?

GeoffWatson
12-21-2016, 08:29 PM
PS. How exactly does Fred feel that Path of Light/Darkness is related to any Destiny that they need to be reset as well?

It's any feat. Rather that thinking about which feats might require Destiny resets, they made any feat reset them. Less work for the Devs.

J1NG
12-21-2016, 08:43 PM
It's any feat. Rather that thinking about which feats might require Destiny resets, they made any feat reset them. Less work for the Devs.

Not quite so. I repeated the Feat Swap after, this time with Enhancements reset out first (to see whether it's the Feat, Enhancements or Destiny that's the cause). No Destiny's were reset after the Feat Swap back from Darkness to Light Path. Only 15 Astral Shards taken as expected. So it would suggest that Fred saw a Destiny that was related to an Enhancement that was being impacted by the Feat Swap. Since the Feat being swapped was a Path Feat, it would mean that there's a relation there somewhere, but I personally can't see one, so I'm a bit flumoxed as to why Fred works as so.

But the key issue I'm asking is, is Fred supposed to just reset all your Enhancements and Destiny's for you as well at 15 Astral Shards each without letting you know first? What happens if I only had 15 Astral Shards? And why doesn't this happen with Plat and Dragonshard combo? (Which if it did, would suggest WAI, so I'd like to know if it's not WAI, considering the Agent said that there's a chance future incidents won't be rectified).

J1NG