Bestial Harmony

[drunkenboastor]

Part of the description for Bestial Harmony, the set shifter helm from Limbo part 1, says "Wearing this item will improve the damage bonus of Animal Empahy by 10%, and increase the damage bonus cap by 10 percentile points". 

I did some testing with a shifter using the helmet and not using the helmet. In both cases Animal Empathy was 127. I did the testing on the Practice Arena map on one of the combat dummies. Beholder cold ray damage is adjusted by Animal Empathy on the Practice Arena map. I used the Beholder shape to test, using 60 cold rays and noting misses. I tested with and without helm 3 times each, and found there was almost no differential in total damage in each test after adjusting for misses. 

I am not sure I understand how much damage the helm should be adding (5% total damage?), it does not appear to adding anything.

[sabregirl]

Jul 19, 2019 22:05:48 GMT drunkenboastor said:

Part of the description for Bestial Harmony, the set shifter helm from Limbo part 1, says "Wearing this item will improve the damage bonus of Animal Empahy by 10%, and increase the damage bonus cap by 10 percentile points". 

I did some testing with a shifter using the helmet and not using the helmet. In both cases Animal Empathy was 127. I did the testing on the Practice Arena map on one of the combat dummies. Beholder cold ray damage is adjusted by Animal Empathy on the Practice Arena map. I used the Beholder shape to test, using 60 cold rays and noting misses. I tested with and without helm 3 times each, and found there was almost no differential in total damage in each test after adjusting for misses. 

I am not sure I understand how much damage the helm should be adding (5% total damage?), it does not appear to adding anything.

Okay I have added this to the list of things to check/fix.

-S

[drunkenboastor]

I just did some testing after the patch. I tested 5 times with the helmet on, 5 times without it. Each test consisted of using beholder cold rays on combat dummy, with 50 confirmed hits. Used HGX for total damage of the 50 hits.

With helmet on: 26742, 26518, 26936, 26522, 26118
Without helmet: 26472, 26016, 26146, 26616, 26400

I am not seeing any real differential in numbers.

[drunkenboastor]

I ran the helmet through a bank chest and then did another series of 5 tests with the helmet on.

With helmet on: 27324, 25256, 26352, 26100, 26548
- I had hopes after the first number, but the rest showed that there is no bonus.

[chainlink]

I can create one from scratch for you if you're around later to see if its an existing item fault and fixed by getting it recreated.

[sabregirl]

Aug 9, 2019 7:37:22 GMT chainlink said:

I can create one from scratch for you if you're around later to see if its an existing item fault and fixed by getting it recreated.

That won't fix it as we didn't change the item. The scripting was only partly implemented, but the variables on the item are correct. We finished the script and it looked functional. I tested it on dev and thought it was okay. Thinking now there may be a deeper script issue that's not especially obvious. Will take a little bit to track down possibly.

-S

[sabregirl]

Okay I believe (with more testing this time) that Bestial Harmony is now actually fixed, on servers that have reset since this posting.

-S

[drunkenboastor]

Thanks for fixing Bestial Harmony.

I am curious, after learning how to fix the helmet, if you are able to make Plate of Anubis's aoe FoD work with Undead Shifter Baelnorn's positive FoD and/or make Visor of Cursed Chaos's aoe Bestow Curse work with Undead Shifter Specter.

And a little bit off topic, could you make Creature Weapon Focus feats equal Unarmed feats when translating to Shifter armed and unarmed shapes?

[sabregirl]

The helmet is an entirely different animal than the other items you listed and require approval, I'll ask.

I thought the creature weapon focus feats did transfer, though probably only to unarmed shapes?

-S

[drunkenboastor]

I have an item with Devastating Critical Creature and it does not add a critical multiplier to any shape.