30% AE Radius Reduction bugged?

[Valer]

On world wide brigand chat I heard that this ability wasn't working properly, and after testing it myself I have been noticing that the AE radius doesnt seem to be shortened at all.  I'm not good with graphs or data charts so I was wondering if someone else has any to back this up, or has been experiencing the same problem.  If this AA is currently bugged could we please have a dev response to confirm this, or a heads up that its being looked into.<div></div>

[DarkMirrax]

bugged for me too , been /bugging it for bloody ages too

[DarkMirrax]

<DIV>might be worth posting in the AA sections tbh as well</DIV> <DIV> </DIV>

[Goonch]

<P>Yep I have a post started in the achievements section feel free to post there.</P> <P>I respecced and took that point out and some points out of revoke and put points in sneak instead so perma casting skewer is worthwhile and not dps hindering:smileyvery-happy: ! </P>

[DarkMirrax]

<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> Goonch wrote:<BR> <P>Yep I have a post started in the achievements section feel free to post there.</P> <P>I respecced and took that point out and some points out of revoke and put points in sneak instead so perma casting skewer is worthwhile and not dps hindering:smileyvery-happy: ! </P><BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE> <P><BR>does that work really ?</P> <P>whats the cast and recast of sneak maxd ?</P> <P> </P>

[Goonch]

<P>Reduces sneak by by half (1 second at max) recast is still 10s,  so i made a macro... </P> <P>/usea sneak</P> <P>/usea skewer</P> <P>and only a couple times did it have problems insta firing.  I used it after shrouded and sideswipe of course and if other stuff was up that was more important obv i waited on it since the duration is a lot longer than recast. </P><p>Message Edited by Goonch on <span class=date_text>01-22-2007</span> <span class=time_text>12:16 PM</span>

[Kegofbud]

<P>For a while now, especially in certain group setups, that type of macro hasn't been firing well for me. When using my hideaway-skewer macro, the skewer doesn't queue and fire most of the time now. I end up having to hover over Skewer, waiting on it to not cast and click it myself, once the Hideaway cast is completed. Like I said, it's a group setup thing...but it would be nice if it queued Skewer properly.</P> <P>The radius reduction thing, definitely seems to not work so I will add to the other thread Pantz started.</P><p>Message Edited by Kegofbud on <span class=date_text>01-22-2007</span> <span class=time_text>01:26 PM</span>

[DarkMirrax]

<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> Kegofbud wrote:<BR> <P>For a while now, especially in certain group setups, that type of macro hasn't been firing well for me. When using my hideaway-skewer macro, the skewer doesn't queue and fire most of the time now. I end up having to hover over Skewer, waiting on it to not cast and click it myself, once the Hideaway cast is completed. Like I said, it's a group setup thing...but it would be nice if it queued Skewer properly.</P> <P><FONT color=#ffff00>/Yup same here , go invis no skewer ! argh drives me mad !</FONT></P> <P>The radius reduction thing, definitely seems to not work so I will add to the other thread Pantz started.</P> <P>Message Edited by Kegofbud on <SPAN class=date_text>01-22-2007</SPAN> <SPAN class=time_text>01:26 PM</SPAN><BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR>

[Goonch]

<P>This is suppose to happen when you sneak anyway but youmight want to add the line...</P> <P>/toggleautoattack</P> <P>/usea sneak</P> <P>/usea skewer</P>

[DarkMirrax]

<DIV>ah so its autoattack thats bugging skewer </DIV>

[Crimson Dragon]

<div></div>well, it's one of three things:1) autoattack is still on so stealth is automatically broken2) your macro is not queueing the abilities properly3) you're getting hit before skewer goes off and no longer in stealth to use skeweredit: it may also be that you were already casting a combat art when you pushed the macro, which could mess up the queueing of your abilities. i've found with macros like this, you have to take a short pause between casting and when you use the macro for it to work correctly... kind of like using manastone or some of the items from your hotbar. i think it might have something to do with the recovery timer.<div></div><p>Message Edited by Crimson Dragon on <span class=date_text>01-23-2007</span> <span class=time_text>05:49 AM</span>

[UNTILitSLEEPS]

4) you have your thugs out...

[Tholar]

5) you proc some heal proc item from healer or buff... (which is annoying now)<div></div>

[DarkMirrax]

<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> freakplayer wrote:<BR>5) you proc some heal proc item from healer or buff... (which is annoying now)<BR> <BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR>your kidding me ?

[Tholar]

<div></div>i am not:<blockquote><hr>Gerrok wrote:<div></div><span class="postbody"><a href="message?board.id=items&message.id=88756" target="_blank">http://eqiiforums.station.sony.com/eq2/board/message?board.id=items&message.id=88756</a>Now it would be interesting to know if tanks could heal themselves with the items their healers have equipped or if it's just a change in the display mode.Before the update both, mending touch and healing wave were displayed as my heals, now i noticed for the first time yesterday on the deathtoll raid, that even preed, marcos or vtooms healed the group/themselves with my proc items, and i am hoping sure they don't use a templar class helm or the collection earring with the heal proc. <img alt="Shocked" src="http://www.remnant-eq2.com/Guild%20Forum/images/smiles/icon_eek.gif" border="0">Ps: Now i now what the scouts are talking about lately when moaning about some group spell which is breaking their invis while they are not doing anything. I can understand that has to be annoying, so what to do? No longer use heal proc items until this is fixed or [Removed for Content] off the scouts a bit?</span><hr></blockquote>thats from our forums.<div></div>

[DarkMirrax]

<DIV>ffs !</DIV>

[Kegofbud]

Well, it could be a bug with autoattack I suppose. It's supposed to turn off and appears to. The macro worked for months and months, then just stopped all of a sudden. I was guessing it to be more of a function of fast cast or recovery time buffs, but I had no proof of that. Something definitely started happening out of nowhere though, may be one of the things listed, but my testing hasn't been in depth. I'll play around with it more tonight...but some of the things listed - no chance, some quite possible. I do typically have a group setup that adjusts the recovery and cast times by a significant amount.<p>Message Edited by Kegofbud on <span class=date_text>01-23-2007</span> <span class=time_text>11:48 AM</span>

[DarkMirrax]

<P>also if the vessel of feywhater is procing its power proc on you too <img src="/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></P> <P> </P>

[Crimson Dragon]

i believe it's just a probleming with queueing abilities. i've been trying to que my skewer while casting stealth, and it just doesn't go off sometimes. i end up having to go back and click it again. might be worth a /bug.<div></div>

[Turb]

Noticed too, but I wonder (not in game now so can't check) if it's a range thing... I notice when it doesn't fire if I move closer to the mob it will. So perhaps when you Sneak or Lie Low you're not in Skewer range, or the tank moves the mob a bit?Now I know others are seeing this I'll test more <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />One place to test the 30% range thing would be AoAx2 with that named that spawns two adds per person in AoE range when it AoE's... usually the range is at the border of the coloured tiles. You could experiment there and see the actual reduction, if any, quite clearly.

[Tholar]

well actually, used it on talendor lately and still got adds when ppl went nearer to mob than max healing range... so much to "working as intended", but creating some mastery strike stuff which could be easily done with a macro (dont get me wrong i like that system, tho the whole l&l questing should be improved aswell, like increasing drop rate of mobs for the update items and auto updates) is more important than fixing some real problems (lags in zones, looking into certain aa trees and aa abilities...)<div></div>

[IllusiveThoughts]

that sucks i was looking forward to using this aa ability on raids.  hopefully it gets fixed by the time i have my brig to 70.

[Kegofbud]

<DIV>Well, in my case it defnitely wasn't range causing the misfire. I didn't have to move, just reclick to cast. Never lost color on my icon for range or had any other CA not fire. My testing last night wasn't very scientific, because I was busy, but I tried the following:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>- watched icon and it lit up as hideaway was casting, but went out before it went off</DIV> <DIV>- checked the macro again...still perfect, same as it has always been</DIV> <DIV>- added additional usea skewers to the bottom line of the macro to attempt to cast it 3 times, no effect</DIV> <DIV>- fellow brig was in a different group config and did not have the same issue</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>My only idea at this point is that another class' buff (possibly casting or recovery?) is causing it to occur. The same issue happened back when KoS came out and I tested using Sailwind. When I respec'd and got rid of Sailwind, the issue went away.</DIV>