(single player, players 3)
After seeing this happen over and over with my mercs - Merc life suddenly drops in half - I started seeing another unusual effect with my Singer Barb. All of my resistances are at least 230, with lightning @ 268; only another effect is from Raven Frost.
With all of my skills, I’m sitting at nearly 5k Life. However, I was completely wiped out in less than a second with a Unique Scarab, this after getting off (2) War Cries (can’t remember all the spawned effects, too pissed to write them down). It did have Fire Enchanted, but I’ve never been hit this hard by it before, not for 4k+ damage anyway. Just before this death, my merc was one-shotted by the same group; no corpse explosion this time, however.
What can be causing this? My (2) other L92+ melee characters, with way less Life/res, survive P8 with much stronger mobs. It feels like my resistances are being ignored.
Lightning bolts + Fire Enchanct = bug damage.
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OK, gotcha - that’s exactly what happened. Has this been a bug for a while? Still doesn’t solve my other merc bug, but at least now I can be overly cautious when this situation presents itself again.
Yep, like Odin said this is a bug.
https://www.theamazonbasin.com/wiki/index.php/Lightning_Enchanted
Fire Enchanted Scarab Demon and its minions will release an invisible explosion whenever put into hit recovery.
When you apply stun (swirlies) to something ANY damage instance will result in hit recovery (even just 1 damage), so what happened is you stunned him and you just got nuked by an onslaught of FE death explosions.
There was a video of a hardcore Baal party with a BO/War Cry barb, I think it was wave 3 where he stunned Bartuc that was LE/FE and 4 or 5 party members got nuked instantly. Pretty nuts.
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That’s epic. Would like to read that chat just before and then after.
BO wears off. I was in a cow game after killing baal I went in the portal and teleported into a pack and almost died because my Bo wore off and I had Horker build on. Luckily I had a lot of full rejuv. If that’s not the issue for you then idk.
Come to think of it I think it happened around a lightning pack too so possible a fire enchanted was nearby and it was bugged damage but Not sure.
In this case, I was fully loaded. Just got back from town after my merc had gotten blasted by the same jackass.
Ah I was wrong, it wasn’t a video but an image.
Lol, unfortunate souls.
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That’s great! I think I slipped on their tears that won’t evaporate in there one time. We’ve all had some w t f moments playing this game.
Grrr…this was supposed to be fixed in patch 2.5. Well, tell that to my merc who dies faster than sitting on Old Sparky.