Righteous Effect issues

[Wraith_Sarevok]

The Righteous effect found on items used to work, but a stealth change in Update 12 completely broke it. It is supposed to give you a stacking +2 attack bonus and +2 damage against evil-aligned monsters when using this weapon, but it does absolutely nothing. The good-aligned benefit still works.


I submitted a bug report as have several others and I want to make sure this gets on the Known Issues list. So come on developers, please let us know what is going on.


Evidence:

In the following picture on the latest Lamania build, I am facing the front side of the portal so there is no flanking bonus. The portal is evil-aligned. I am constantly running while attacking and my only relevant buff was Rage (not really even necessary). My total attack bonus is +11 + 2 from Righteous. So attack bonus SHOULD be +13. My absolute damage range assuming no crits possible is 7-16 + 2 from Righteous. So the real total SHOULD be 9-18 damage. Instead, my running attack bonus is stuck at +11, which is wrong. I am getting rolls of 8 damage, which is below the minimum, and I never roll more than 16 damage. Righteous is clearly broken:





EDIT: Oops I might have accidentally made the title too provocative but I'm unable to edit it now. Sorry!

[wax_on_wax_off]

I really hope that this gets fixed.

Though, it may be OP to give +2 AB/damage vs all evil mobs, I'd be happy if it was a shorter list of very evil mobs (like evil outsiders, undead, evil divine characters and maybe bosses or something ...)

[Jsbeer]

Well comparing it to Pure Good which is on average 3.5 extra damage I believe, Righteousness 'should' give +2 Hit and +2 damage so while nice it is hardly totally overpowered. Sometimes I would prefer the extra point or two of damage, others the extra 'to hit', so seems fine to me.

[wax_on_wax_off]

Well comparing it to Pure Good which is on average 3.5 extra damage I believe, Righteousness 'should' give +2 Hit and +2 damage so while nice it is hardly totally overpowered. Sometimes I would prefer the extra point or two of damage, others the extra 'to hit', so seems fine to me.

+2 AB and no alignment restriction is *much* more valuable in challenging content for a majority of builds, IMO. Only fighters and barbs don't need the AB so much but they do often need the lack of alignment restriction.

[Partydeluxe]

/signed

Been going on for quite a while too (noticed it about 3 months ago i think?) which is a pity because the change to make righteousness give good-allignment was something I really liked..

[Astraghal]

I hadn't noticed this working since it was discovered (just after U9 or whenever they implimented the changes) that Righteous wasn't applying the +2 to-hit and damage against evil opponents. I haven't ever noticed this working as intended. Only the DR/holy aspect of Righteousness ever worked for me.

[aristarchus1000]

/signed

Please fix or at least acknowledge

[Varashad]

Wish I'd known this before I icy burst righteousness weapons...

[goodspeed]

I think this has been broken for some time. I still use em though as they're good aligned, and some day im sure they'll get the extra to hit back as well.

[Kilarthia]

yes please fix this