KB->KD enhancement not working slotted in pet after Aug. 27 patch

[Niss]

I slotted an "Overwhelming Force: Damage/Chance for Knockdown/Knockback to Knockdown" in my Controller's Phantasm, and it was working fine for the longest time (and is the only one slotted for reference, I'm aware it is "Unique").  After the patch today (2019/09/27) he's all of a sudden knocking stuff back all over the place so will report it as a possible bug here.  Am exploring using a Sudden Acceleration KB->KD in the meantime as that seems to be working fine in my Power Blast - will update if replacing it fixes the issue with the pet's KB (unsure if it's the enhancement or the fact it is slotted in a pet that is the root of the potential problem).

Thanks for any attention in any case.

(edit: changed topic header to be more descriptive)

 

Cheers

~N

Edited August 30, 2019 by Niss

[Niss]

By way of follow-up, I removed the Overwhelming Force KB->KD and put in a Sudden Acceleration as noted above.  Phantasm still knocking things back like crazy, which it was not doing before when slotted with a KB->KD enhancement.  Just additional information, but definitely more comfortable reporting this as a bug now for what that's worth.  Again, it's only the pet seeming to ignore the enhancement, when slotted in Power Burst, it does KD as expected.  Something seems up there though.

Thanks again,
~N

[the_zeeker]

I'm having the exact same experience with my phantasm slotted with overwhelming force KB/KD.  Didn't experience this pre-patch.

[Zep]

Just to double check, you are not attacking mobs under your level?

[Niss]

Hi Zep,

 

Definitely not.  All the testing I've been doing is on missions with +2 level and counting as 2 heroes/villains.  At level 47, this was mobs in the 48-50 range, including the usual spread of minions, lt., bosses, elite bosses, etc.

 

I was suspicious that it had something to do with the fact I'd just slotted an Expedient Reinforcement set of level 50 in the pet, and thought maybe it was something buggy with respect to the set being 50 while I was 47 (even though this should be fine, and the set had nothing to do with the KB->KD enchancement from the Universal Damage set).  But I've levelled since then and there is no change.  Tested both the Universal Damage KB->KD, as well as the one from the Knockback set, and the behaviour is identical with respect to the pet.  It is simply ignoring the KB->KD enchancement and is sending mobs all over the place (an amusing mission he managed to push an Illusionist so far down a hall that I had 3 more Illusionist bosses adding to the fight...was quite the experience :).  And to reiterate, it definitely wasn't doing this prior to the last patch.  Something has changed.

 

I can confirm that the KB->KD enchancement is working as expected in Power Burst, it's just the pet, and in particular the Illusion Control Phantasm pet (and the decoy it creates).  I don't know how pervasive KB is with other pet users, or how often the slot to remove it, although I'd expect a lot of people do given how averse groups are to having mobs flung all over the place.  Was happy to hear someone else pipe up confirming they're experiencing the same problem as it's definitely a thing, at the very least for the Phantasm pet.

 

Here's hoping it is something trivial and easy to rectify.

Cheers,
~N

[JeridCOH]

Just tested Overwhelming KB > KD slotted into a Tornado pet on a Storm Defender.

The Tornado only does KD not KB thankfully

... Considering the Bug with Illusion Blind holds not stacking being for Illusion only... I wonder if the KB > KD not working on the Phantom is limited to Illusion Control pets only as well.

 

[Mr. Vee]

Same thing on mine. I've stopped spawning it for anything lower than an AV since it keeps knocking things away from my debuff anchors.

[DSorrow]

The Soulbound Allegiance chance for BU appears to be broken with Phantom Army, too. Usually it procs pretty often but I just ran a test against a Rikti Pylon and the phantoms didn't manage to proc it even once over several summons. I wonder if procs in pets are broken across the board.

[Riverdusk]

Illusion sure seems to have gotten more than its share of bugs for this patch.   Put mine on the shelf for now. 

[Mr. Vee]

Do we know if the PTBs are on this one? They posted in the stacked hold bug thread.