Chilling Ray bug (no damage)

[Wolfboy1]

I was playing on my Ice/Regen Sentinel and came across a few times when using chilling ray.  This is not a constant bug but happens intermittently.  Most of the time it will do it's damage as normal but every so often, no damage is applied at all.

[Luminara]

Sleeps were changed to automatically hit, even if they were secondary effects of attacks.  Because the Sleep is autohit, Chilling Ray "always hits", but the damage part still has to make a hit roll... and that hit roll doesn't display in the combat logs... because the attack is flagged as autohit...

 

It gets worse.  The damage hit roll isn't factored by the streak breaker.  The streak breaker ignores it because the attack is flagged autohit.  So Chilling Ray can not only fail to deal damage because it missed its hit roll for the damage (and didn't notify the player), but it can also cause miss streaks, because the streak breaker isn't counting the unreported hit roll that the attack has to make.

 

Can we say "nuclear dumpster fire"?  Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay.

[Wolfboy1]

1 hour ago, Luminara said:

Sleeps were changed to automatically hit, even if they were secondary effects of attacks.  Because the Sleep is autohit, Chilling Ray "always hits", but the damage part still has to make a hit roll... and that hit roll doesn't display in the combat logs... because the attack is flagged as autohit...

 

It gets worse.  The damage hit roll isn't factored by the streak breaker.  The streak breaker ignores it because the attack is flagged autohit.  So Chilling Ray can not only fail to deal damage because it missed its hit roll for the damage (and didn't notify the player), but it can also cause miss streaks, because the streak breaker isn't counting the unreported hit roll that the attack has to make.

 

Can we say "nuclear dumpster fire"?  Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay.

 

Wow, that just sounds like...bad design or sloppy coding.  How long has it been that way?!

[Luminara]

12 minutes ago, Wolfboy1 said:

How long has it been that way?!

 

Since Sleeps were changed to autohit.  I don't know which Page that was, check the patch notes.  I reported the bug with Chilling Ray about four months ago.

 

Just respec out of it for now.  You can slip it back in when it's working properly.

[PeregrineFalcon]

1 hour ago, Luminara said:

You can slip it back in when it's working properly.

You always say that.