Mantle of the Worldshaper Bug

[Noelemahc]

This bug is on live atm and is 100% reproducible every time. I currently don't have a char on Lamannia atm with a Mantle, so seeing if anyone can confirm this before I go farm one to try and bug report it there. Excerpt from my bug report on live:

While in any undead form as a Pale Master wearing Mantle of the Worldshaper, any negative energy spells cast on you to heal yourself are instead absorbed by the Mantle of the Worldshaper item. For example, if you cast Death Aura or Lesser Death Aura on yourself, charges are expelled on the Mantle until they are depleted and each "tic" of the Aura will not heal you until the charges are depleted.

The same is true if you use Harm scrolls on yourself, or use a Harm special ability cast from an item such as Circle of Hatred. This can be reproduced 100% of the time in any situation. The charges are not expelled from the Mantle while you are not in undead form.

1. Enter any undead form as a Pale Master.
2. Equip your Mantle of the Worldshaper.
3. Cast Death Aura, Lesser Death Aura, Harm, Negative Energy Burst, or any negative energy spell that will heal you while the Mantle of the Worldshaper is being worn.
4. The spells are absorbed by your Mantle of the Worldshaper while you are in undead form and they will not heal you. Death Aura and Lesser Death Aura do not expel Mantle charges while you are not in undead form. Being that these are not "harmful spells" and are either being cast by yourself or by an ally, they should not be expelling Mantle charges.

Anyway, does anyone know if this bug is on Lamannia right now as well? I'm not sure if it's just limited to the mantle, or if ioun stones absorb the spells as well. Being that the deathward/undead form issue has finally been resolved, getting other stuff like the resolved would be great as well. If anyone that can confirm/deny this bug on Lamannia that would be awesome.

[Antheal]

I suspect it's not unique to the Mantle and will happen with both a Scarab of Spell Absorption and a Pale Lavender Ioun Stone as well.

There's a similar situation when using the Vampiric Stonedust Handwraps, each point of incoming healing is blocked and absorbed until your Mantle/Scarab/Stone is fully depleted, and THEN you begin to get healed from the Vampiric effect.

[Majere_Aumar]

happens with the ioun stone too

[Alexandryte]

(sitting in front of a fireplace with an elegant pipe)

Remember when RS aura ate mantle and scarab charges...

I do....

It sounds like an issue with the property "Spell absorption".

And its coded to look at a specific set of spells for absorbing before checking to see if they are positive effects for the wearer first.

(inset witty phrase here)
(scene end)

(ponder why so many random commercials that use this format are stuck in my head)
(cast Regain Sanity)
(Mantle charges decrease)

D'oh!

[LeLoric]

Yeah there are still some pretty nasty bugs out there affecting palemasters.

Spell absorption items like mantle/ioun stones or sscarabs losing charges form negative energy spells.

Boon to undeath being lost after swapping robes while in undead form.

Bodyfeeder/vampiric weapons not working (this may be wai but still some confirmation would be nice).

[heyytoi]

On live server if you use chaosblade + mantle you wont get heal until the cloak is empty

[Vengeance777]

Happens when you try to summon a monster with Rodericks wand as well. Summon a monster with Mantle/Ioun Stone on and you loose charges of both and receive no monster.

[Majere_Aumar]

they just need to add a flag to the spells (if it doesnt already exist) called beneficial_effect and if its set to true, the spell absorption won't absorb it.

[Nospheratus]

they just need to add a flag to the spells (if it doesnt already exist) called beneficial_effect and if its set to true, the spell absorption won't absorb it.

I'm sure that's what they have and it isn't working.

One effect is beneficial on some situations and it is not on others. Heal/Harm are the best examples...

[Noelemahc]

I'm sure that's what they have and it isn't working.

One effect is beneficial on some situations and it is not on others. Heal/Harm are the best examples...

True, but if a spell is cast by you or an ally it is almost always beneficial (dance belt only one that really isn't), so they shouldn't be absorbed. I'm not sure why this isn't the case though. I'll look to see if it's in the official known issues or not.

I was going to test it on Lamannia today after getting a mantle and bug report it if the issue was present there, then I realized I no longer have a Pale Master because I tr my wiz to a sorc to try out Savants... So yeah, I can't test it out.

[Wizzly_Bear]

Also happens with that Phiarlan shield. Heck, the shield even absorbs rezzes!

[Antheal]

Also happens with that Phiarlan shield. Heck, the shield even absorbs rezzes!

Ow. I just broke my nose from *facepalm*ing so hard.