Focused Feedback: Powerset - Staff Fighting

[The Curator]

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Staff Fighting

•  Perfection: Levels are now granted on misses.
•  Sky Splitter: Increased bonus damage inflicted by Sky Splitter while under level 3 Perfection from scale 0.828 to scale 1.656.
  • Fixed a bug where the power would grant a new level 1 perfection at the same time it consumed level 3.
•  Eye of the Storm: Increased bonus damage inflicted by Eye of the Storm while under level 3 Perfection from scale 0.1892 to scale 0.4920.
  • Fixed a bug where this power would not remove perfection stacks when executing a finisher.
  • Fixed a bug where the power would grant a new level 1 perfection at the same time it consumed level 3.

 

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[Arcadio]

There's a bug with Eye of the Storm. It doesn't consume perfection but still gets the bonus damage. At least on this stalker, I haven't tried any other AT.

 

eta: Sky Splitter properly consumes perfection
 

 

Edited Tuesday at 09:25 PM by Arcadio

[Championess]

19 minutes ago, Arcadio said:

There's a bug with Eye of the Storm. It doesn't consume perfection but still gets the bonus damage. At least on this stalker, I haven't tried any other AT.

 

eta: Sky Splitter properly consumes perfection
 

 

 

 

[Championess]

On a separate note the change looks real good on paper.  Will be fun to see how my staff stalker plays.

[Maelwys]

Did a quick test with my Bio/Staff Tanker...

On Live:





On Brainstorm:






(i) Sky Splitter on test is doing something wrong with Perfection of Body stacks - it's consuming 3 then immediately adding 1 before it actually lands.
(ii) Eye of the Storm is also doing something wrong - there is a delay of a few seconds before it consumes 3 stacks. This is long enough to get a Sky Splitter off.
 

Edited Tuesday at 10:12 PM by Maelwys

[Championess]

35 minutes ago, Championess said:

 

 

 

7 minutes ago, Maelwys said:

Did a quick test with my Bio/Staff Tanker...

On Live:





On Brainstorm:






(i) Sky Splitter on test is doing something wrong with Perfection of Body stacks - it's consuming 3 then immediately adding 1 before it actually lands.
(ii) Eye of the Storm is also doing something wrong - there is a delay of a few seconds before it consumes 3 stacks. This is long enough to get a Sky Splitter off.
 

 

Dammit! Only unintentional bugs that have a negative affect need reported, the rest are features... 😝

 

See post above for reference:

[Maelwys]

5 minutes ago, Championess said:

Dammit! Only unintentional bugs that have a negative affect need reported, the rest are features... 😝

See post above for reference:

Yuks notwithstanding; there's really no point in keeping schtum... the only thing the bug with EoTS is good for is activating Sky Splitter; which from what I can tell is also broken and currently always acts as if it's only got a single stack of Perfection of Body active regardless.

[Championess]

1 minute ago, Maelwys said:

which from what I can tell is also broken and currently always acts as if it's only got a single stack of Perfection of Body active regardless.

 

Oh well only reading as having one stack for Sky Splitter counts as a negative certainly.  

[Maelwys]

Can confirm bugs fixed on the new build.
Damage of the "bonus" ticks looks to be more-or-less right also. Sky Splitter in particular is hitting noticeably harder now.

[schrodingercat]

17 minutes ago, Maelwys said:

Can confirm bugs fixed on the new build.
Damage of the "bonus" ticks looks to be more-or-less right also. Sky Splitter in particular is hitting noticeably harder now.

good because it used to feel like bopping someone with a newspaper sometimes

[Maelwys]

41 minutes ago, schrodingercat said:

good because it used to feel like bopping someone with a newspaper sometimes

Rough numbers for me (ED-capped damage with Musculature Alpha on a Bio/Staff Tanker) are ~600 on Live and ~735 on Brainstorm; before Procs and Hybrid.

EoTS is only adding ~20 damage total unfortunately; so barely noteworthy. But not having the chain mess up due to the occasional miss is nice.
Overall a step in the right direction for Staff; even if my Tank's AoE damage potential will be taking a major hit due to the Gauntlet tweak's impact on GS, IS and EoTS...

 

Edited Thursday at 09:58 PM by Maelwys

[Ryko Nailo]

Looks like a new bug in the new build, stacks of Perfection no longer refresh, as such you have a very short window to use them and can't avoid burning to keep the max stack buffs, I haven't tested it on every AT, but can confirm at least Tanker and Stalker versions of Staff don't work and it happens regardless of which stance you are in / it built into stalkers.

[Maelwys]

32 minutes ago, Ryko Nailo said:

Looks like a new bug in the new build, stacks of Perfection no longer refresh, as such you have a very short window to use them and can't avoid burning to keep the max stack buffs, I haven't tested it on every AT, but can confirm at least Tanker and Stalker versions of Staff don't work and it happens regardless of which stance you are in / it built into stalkers.

Yeah I'm seeing that too.

Doesn't matter what attack I use, it's not refreshing or overwriting the effect when at 3 stacks.
All three types are affected so it's not just Perfection of Body this is occurring with.
(Can see this with Mercurial Blow in screenshot below)

 

To be fair, when I rechecked on Live the combat log text there doesn't show the stacks refreshing either; however the icon in the buff window never vanishes and SS/EoTS never lose their circles until I click one of them. On Brainstorm, both the icon in the buff window and the circle around SS/EoTS vanish soon after hitting 3 stacks despite spamming regular staff attacks.
 

Edited yesterday at 06:38 AM by Maelwys

[KaizenSoze]

I am guessing this flag isn't set on Staff on open beta. It's there on live.

[Maelwys]

Can confirm that the Perfection Stack refreshing is working again now as of build #3.
(And FWIW Eye of the Storm is still currently doing roughly ~20 damage more on Brainstorm than Live; so if they've bumped the damage it's unnoticeable on my Tanker)
  

On 5/30/2025 at 4:07 PM, The Curator said:

BUILD 3 CHANGES:

Powers

• Staff Fighting > Eye of the Storm: Fixed a bug where this power was doing less damage than intended
• Staff Fighting > Eye of the Storm: This power should now properly consume Perfection (for reals this time)
• Staff Fighting > Staff Mastery: Fixed an issue where the third stack would not refresh properly