Shield pylon and got damage

I tested wizard with 6p Firebird and hydra setup GR 100 took a shield pylon and the explosion from a dying molten monster damaged me and procced the cheat death from my templar. Shield pylon was active.

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Same issue here (WD/Mundu) with a shield pylon and explosion.

I was going to report a similar (same?) issue last night, but wanted to test more to try and gather more specific details.

On multiple occasions, I took damage and Enchantress cheat death proc’ed from Rift Guardians (Blighter for sure, can’t remember who else) while Shielding was active.

My hunch is that it has to do with the implementation of how the follower cheat-deaths were re-prioritized. Feels like perhaps it’s now checking for the cheat-death before it checks for Shielding.

I just experienced the same error. Did a GR 100 with my DH and received damage from explosion although shield pylon was active. Follower cheat death also procced. I made a screenshot but can’t post it due to the trust level.

Edit: Screenshot added
https://ibb.co/853Xtmf

Yeah, I noticed that too last night. Had activated the pylon but still took damage when the elite from nemesis spawned. The follower cheat death had also been proced.
Screenshot of it happening again:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DYLhAaGcgGDaTpIoBy1zZD9KeUK-YXps/view

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Thanks for the explanation. Added the screenshot to my post.

This has happened several times on my DH with the Scoundrel’s cheat death skill. Seems to be a bug with the followers cheat death skills.

Can confirm, this bug has now happened to me as well. While I’m not sure about the cause of the bug (follower cheat death passive is a strong possibility), the effect however seems to be caused certain ground effects like molten explosions.

I do not believe this to be the case.

I believe the effect is any source of damage whose calculated value would 1-shot you. Molten, of course, is a very common effect that would do this, but I would bet the underlying technical issue has anything to do with ground effects.

I suspect they moved the follower Cheat Death to too high of a position in the damage calculation, such that it is checking whether it needs to “save you” before it has actually finished checking for all of the player’s buffs, such as Shield Pylon.

They moved it so that it would be checked before the player’s passive Cheat Deaths, ensuring that it would be consumed at a higher priority, but I think they accidentally moved it too far forward in the damage calculation.

I also suspect that we’re not actually “taking” any damage through shielding, but rather that the Follower Cheat death’s underlying implementation itself actually sets the player’s health to a certain percentage. This, of course, looks identical to the player, but the important distinction is that Shield Pylon itself is not broken and is working just fine…it’s only that the follower Cheat Death is triggering when it shouldn’t.

A pretty simple mistake in the implementation of the recent re-prioritization of Follower Cheat Deaths, and should be a pretty straightfoward fix.

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It’s fatal damage, so life appears to go down to zero. Squirt’s is staying at 10 stacks and not falling off, so we aren’t taking damage in regards to that. It could be bad news for a hardcore player who gets the follower proc near the end of the shield and then immediately procs their own cheat death because their life was already low.

Another screenshot:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/12HFEFd9p7lBD4G6Aw-8rqL7GJX21qlE2

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Same happened for me. LoD Necro on HC.

Explosions and Shockwaves triggered my follower cheat death while i had Shield pylon running.

Please Fix

Same here:

https://ibb.co/12hRCps

Was able to repeat this. It appears to happen when what would be a single source of a fatal amount of damage is applied while the Shield Pylon is in effect. Molton damage and exploding Grotesque corpse both proc’d the Scoundrel “Vanish” ability while Shield Pylon was in effect.

can confirm 2 little vids one with molten explosion off the elite from the pylon and the other is taking reflect from the spinners from the shield pylon.

Molten - Diablo III Broken Shield Pylons on PTR. - YouTube

Spinners - Diablo III Another Shield Pylon. - YouTube

Updated Patch Note says:

Vanish, Fate’s Lapse, and Guardian now have a higher priority than player’s cheat death skills.

I assume Vanish, Fate’s Lapse, and Guardian now accidentally also have a higher priority than shield pylon, too.

Same here
https://ibb.co/NC8Fr8P

Same here. The Templar Guardian activated while protected by a pylon shield.

question…were you wearing nemesis bracers and did you Proc as soon as you hit the pylon? If so this is a bug that’s been ongoing for a while I’ve experienced this multiple times

I’ve just experienced this as well with the follower (Templar in my case) cheat death.
My Follower was also wearing Nemesis. It was decently into the Shield Pylon time.
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