Arcane Warrior does not trigger the MP/RP buff with certain damage spells

[LevelJ]

I was very hopeful for this feat, but I admit that the main use I had in mind for it doesn't seem to be working currently. Specifically, there are 3 key spells it's not working with at the moment-

-Lesser Death Aura
-Death Aura
-Negative Energy Burst

Now in my tests with this feat, I quickly became aware that the Ranged Power/Melee Power buff from spells are only supposed to trigger when you land damage on an enemy, so no, LDA/DA wouldn't generate stacks from healing a PM. Stinks, but I'll live. That said, I would expect it to generate stacks in the middle of a mob, 1 per second. Yet with all 3 of these abilities, it fails to generate any. Not even 1 on the first damage tic. Negative Energy Burst should be 1 as well, but it isn't when next to enemies.

If I had to guess, it's because the Devs have been working so hard to get these spells to work without triggering anti-damage effects that hurt PM's, to the point that the game no longer interprets these as damage spells, and so overlooks them for the purposes of Arcane Warrior. Yet considering these are three of the primary spells I pull out for offense and defense with my EK, I would really like to be able to use them with this ability.


-Jayron

[Cocomajobo]

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As was the bug report stating this exact thing.

[TrigonometricHero]

Wondering if anything happened on this, Arcane Warrior has no wiki page so it's hard to see what if anything has been fixed with it.
Would love to know if Death Aura can proc the mp yet.

[PsychoBlonde]

The thing that makes me sad is that it doesn't trigger with artificer runearm use, either. Runearm blasts don't count as spells, and they don't count as attacks--even though they have a spell DC and do damage.

This would be a great ability for artificers except that triggering it is a giant pain in the rear.

[Mindos]

The thing that makes me sad is that it doesn't trigger with artificer runearm use, either. Runearm blasts don't count as spells, and they don't count as attacks--even though they have a spell DC and do damage.

This would be a great ability for artificers except that triggering it is a giant pain in the rear.

Yeah, I agree. I ended up using this on a RANGER of all things!!! The synergy between spell power from shooting arrows and imbues from Arcane Archer was too good to pass up. Or maybe it was meant for rangers and not for straight magic users. idk. I just always thought of it as an only arcane thing...

[PsychoBlonde]

It's a cool idea with awkward implementation, is all, because everything that would REALLY benefit from it is really awkward to use effectively.

It should work the best with aura attacks, stuff that hits that way. So it would be great on a mix-build druid, for instance, because they get a lot of AOE DOT spells, so you throw some of those up and you switch to animal form and chew things up. Except that this is not a viable druid build because druid enhancements are jacked. It's not effective for artificers, because it doesn't work with runearms. It's not really useful for Warlocks that I've seen. Doesn't work well for wizards or sorcerers that I've seen.

It'd work pretty well for a divine crusader type if the floor glow works with it.

[LrdSlvrhnd]

I tried using this on my bard, and very quickly switched it out. I was really hoping that Reverberate & Arcane Pulse would hit per tick, but it was only doing the initial shot. Her meleeing ramped up the spellpower nicely, but she just couldn't keep up the other side of things so it was useless. When I get on Lama later to play with the FvS changes, I'm going to have to level her up and then see if the archon laser counts, because *that* would be very useful indeed.

[edgarallanpoe]

The thing that makes me sad is that it doesn't trigger with artificer runearm use, either. Runearm blasts don't count as spells, and they don't count as attacks--even though they have a spell DC and do damage.

This would be a great ability for artificers except that triggering it is a giant pain in the rear.

There is at least 1 runearm it works with, from what I understand. The runearm from Hound counts as a spell. I haven't pulled that yet so cannot verify that but that is what I understand.

[PsychoBlonde]

There is at least 1 runearm it works with, from what I understand. The runearm from Hound counts as a spell. I haven't pulled that yet so cannot verify that but that is what I understand.

Really? I have one and I don't recall it working when I tested it. Maybe I'll try again.