Problems with the new meta overwrites

[sweez]

Here's a paste from my bug report, too lazy to write it up for forums:

Select two buff spells (or anything really as long as it can be cast in town for easy testing), give one the Quicken (always off) overwrite, leave the second one with the default setting.

-Turn quicken on. Try casting the first spell (one that has an active overwrite) - sometimes it will cast quickened, sometimes not, even though it should never be quickened. Turning quicken off and back on sometimes solves the issue, but sometimes it doesn't. Also, the glitch seems to carry on to other spells with no active overwrites - after turning quicken on and casting a spell with an active overwrite (quicken always off) a few times, there's a chance that a spell with no overwrites at all will still ignore the quicken.

-For example, I'd put Quicken always off on haste, no overwrites on prot elements. I turn on quicken, cast haste 10 times, it got quickened the first time, not quickened the next 9 times. Then I cast protection elements (with no overwrites), it gets quickened. But then, on the next cast, the haste (still with Quicken off overwrite), gets quickened. After that haste, I cast another protection elements (no overwrites) and even though quicken is still on, it doesn't get quickened.

It *seems* like the overwrite of a spell cast affects the next spell cast, whether that spell itself has an overwrite or not. However, that doesn't explain why that first haste, cast right after quicken was turned on, got quickened.

I've tried reproducing the same thing with the overwrite for extend, but out of 20-30 tries, that one has worked exactly as it should every single time. Don't really have a reliable way to test others right now.

Anyone else have similar issues or is it just me?

[wez]

yes me too just put in bug report too

[Pape_27]

had the same issue with quicken in tod this afternoon. Seemed like it was hit or miss.

Turned the setting to standard and will leave it like that til the bugs get worked out

[Angelus_dead]

Anyone else have similar issues or is it just me?

Yes, some people from Lamannia mentioned related kinds of things: they have Quicken toggled for some spells, and them some other spells start using the Quicken animation (but not the cost).

[Seikojin]

Server, time, and instance #/quest would help track it down if it is a timing issue. For the forum goers/players.

[Chette]

Yes, having major issues with the metas.
I set all of my buffs to never quicken and all of my heals to always quicken. Boy, was I surprised when we went into Lord of the Blades!

I would rather the devs just completely get rid of this until they can fix it, I do not want to risk unquickened healing.

[rhaos69]

Same problem as a healer.....
Have quicken toggled on for every cure and heal spell and toggled off for divine power and favor
When i cast a mass cure spell for a first time it is casted quickened....then i cast divine favor or power but it is casted quickened also, when it shouldn't be.....then i try a different mass cure spell and it is not casted quickened as it should have...... Hope this bug changes soon.....

[sweez]

Ok, I haven't really tried it since I'm too lazy, but from what I gathered in the replies, disabling all overwrites fixes the problem? That would at least make it tolerable till they fix it... they should give us a 'reset all custom metamagic settings' option or something.

[Grenada]

Haven't tried the new meta set up (will be on soon enough to try though).


Does it only affect quicken, or are all the metas messed up?

[Vellrad]

this is nothing.
You want something really bugged and annoying?
All spells with metas DISSAPEARS from hotbars after relogging.

[PurdueDave]

this is nothing.
You want something really bugged and annoying?
All spells with metas DISSAPEARS from hotbars after relogging.

Thanks. You saved me a lot of time tomorrow.

[Vellrad]

Thanks. You saved me a lot of time tomorrow.

np.
Now I can't play until I know what the hell was in 10 slots :/
Even if I put spells as I like, I will be unknowigly clicking wrong buttons now :/

[Sarisa]

I only noticed the meta timing issue with Quicken. Heighten off on Heal, always Max/Empower on Divine Punishment, and always extend Divine Power/Favor/Prayer/Recitation and they're all working (as far as I've seen so far) properly. Only got oddities when I tried to set Mass Heal to always Quicken.

this is nothing.
You want something really bugged and annoying?
All spells with metas DISSAPEARS from hotbars after relogging.

On my Cleric, my meta altered spells remained hotkeyed after several complete client restarts. I did not test anything on my Bard or Sorc yet.