Spiritual Foresight or Spiritual Joke?

[Camibella]

The first 25 AP I got went to getting this ability (Im sure just like the majority of you!), so that my dog could stay alive. And now a days it seems as if this ability is becoming worthless.

I overlooked the fact that in Assent of Awakening the birds AE’s kill our dogs NON STOP, infact it becomes such a pain in the rear I just stop summoning the thing because of the 10 Second CAST time, with its nasty little 10 second RECAST. So for OVER 20 seconds no heals, slows, debuffs, Cures or any of that sort of fun stuff from us! (I say over, because ya gotta put the other buffs back on the pet or its not going to live).

Also the last dragon in AoA – The one who summons the little fire blobs for each person who gets hit by the AE? Yea it happens there as well (at least it did with us 2 times only people in range of the AE were the dog and the MT).

So tonight we went to do the big crab in the new expansion pack and REPEATEDLY its AE killed my pet. =/ Unlike the birds in AoA it wasn’t 100% guaranteed that the AE would kill him but it did more then enough times to get me upset about the whole thing.

And before everyone starts to ask – NO the dog was not on protect me/self, no the dog did not engage the mob before the MT did.

There are A LOT of AE’s out there our dogs resist – A hefty chunk actually, but is it too much to ask that the ability we spend HALF of our AP to get, work as its description says it should?

Worked here

(1153459524)[Fri Jul 21 01:25:24 2006] Circadian hits Bonesnapper for 116 points of crushing damage.
(1153459524)[Fri Jul 21 01:25:24 2006] Circadian tries to disease Bonesnapper with Virulence, but Bonesnapper resists.
(1153459524)[Fri Jul 21 01:25:24 2006] Circadian is protected by Spiritual Foresight.

Didn’t work here

(1153460644)[Fri Jul 21 01:44:04 2006] Bonesnapper's Despoiling Mists hits Circadian for 6606 points of cold damage.
(1153460644)[Fri Jul 21 01:44:04 2006] Circadian's Shielding Faith disappears.
(1153460644)[Fri Jul 21 01:44:04 2006] Circadian's pale green aura fades.
(1153460644)[Fri Jul 21 01:44:04 2006] Bonesnapper has killed Circadian.

Or here….

(1153460644)[Fri Jul 21 01:44:04 2006] NAME's Exhaltation of the Untamed absorbs 1459 points of damage from being done to YOU.
(1153460644)[Fri Jul 21 01:44:04 2006] Bonesnapper's Despoiling Mists freezes YOU draining 22 points of power.
(1153460644)[Fri Jul 21 01:44:04 2006] Bonesnapper's Despoiling Mists hits YOU for 1498 points of cold damage.
(1153460644)[Fri Jul 21 01:44:04 2006] NAME's Exhaltation of the Untamed absorbs 147 points of damage from being done to YOU.
(1153460644)[Fri Jul 21 01:44:04 2006] Bonesnapper's Despoiling Mists freezes Circadian draining 0 points of power.
(1153460644)[Fri Jul 21 01:44:04 2006] NAME's Exhaltation of the Untamed absorbs 1312 points of damage from being done to YOU.
(1153460644)[Fri Jul 21 01:44:04 2006] Bonesnapper's Despoiling Mists hits Circadian for 6606 points of cold damage.
(1153460644)[Fri Jul 21 01:44:04 2006] Circadian's Shielding Faith disappears.
(1153460644)[Fri Jul 21 01:44:04 2006] Circadian's pale green aura fades.
(1153460644)[Fri Jul 21 01:44:04 2006] Bonesnapper has killed Circadian.

Or here….

(1153461754)[Fri Jul 21 02:02:34 2006] Bonesnapper's Despoiling Mists hits Cadance for 1918 points of cold damage.
(1153461754)[Fri Jul 21 02:02:34 2006] Bonesnapper's Despoiling Mists freezes YOU draining 886 points of power.
(1153461754)[Fri Jul 21 02:02:34 2006] Bonesnapper's Despoiling Mists hits YOU for 2444 points of cold damage.
(1153461754)[Fri Jul 21 02:02:34 2006] Bonesnapper's Despoiling Mists freezes Circadian draining 209 points of power.
(1153461754)[Fri Jul 21 02:02:34 2006] Bonesnapper's Despoiling Mists hits Circadian for 2864 points of cold damage.
(1153461754)[Fri Jul 21 02:02:34 2006] Circadian's Shielding Faith disappears.
(1153461754)[Fri Jul 21 02:02:34 2006] Bonesnapper has killed Circadian.

Or here….

(1153462380)[Fri Jul 21 02:13:00 2006] Bonesnapper's Despoiling Mists freezes YOU draining 917 points of power.
(1153462380)[Fri Jul 21 02:13:00 2006] Bonesnapper's Despoiling Mists hits YOU for 836 points of cold damage.
(1153462380)[Fri Jul 21 02:13:00 2006] Bonesnapper's Despoiling Mists freezes Circadian draining 149 points of power.
(1153462380)[Fri Jul 21 02:13:00 2006] Bonesnapper's Despoiling Mists hits Circadian for 4229 points of cold damage.
(1153462380)[Fri Jul 21 02:13:00 2006] Bonesnapper has killed Circadian.

[Camibella]

Oops I didnt see this post. Sorry about that =)

[Terq]

Yeah, the AoA thing is known.  I have been happy with Spiritual Foresight in just about every other situation though.

[Mystiq]

Yeah if all we can come up with are two zones in which it is frustrating to keep the pet up in, I really don't see much of a problem. All the other times in all the other raids that he does fine in unless directly hit, the ability is doing its job. And all the times group members avoid AE's as well, it's doing its job. We really don't know the mechanics behind all the ae's that mobs use, especially since they are often totally different from apparently similar spells player classes get. Maybe some are essentially targetting every single person the same way we target one. Maybe it truly is a bug of some kind and maybe the wording on SF could be cleaned up, we really dunno. I for one don't have the energy to take the crusade to the dev's ear anymore, but be my guest.