Minion and Mendeln Bugs Persisting After Patch

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Seasonal Power

  • Grow
    • Critical Chance does not work on Mendeln but does work on Minions.
    • Increases the damage of Minions.
    • Increases the damage of Ring of Mendeln
    • Increases the Damage and Critical Strike Chance of Army of the Dead.
  • Aura Specialization
    • Requires testing.
  • Hex Specialization
    • Requires testing.

Aspects

  • Aspect of Grasping Veins
    • Increases the damage of Minions.
    • Does not increase the Critical Strike Damage of Ring of Mendeln.
    • Increases the damage of Golem Auto Attacks.
    • Increases the damage of Golem Active Damage.
    • Increases the damage of Aspect of Fel Gluttony.
  • Aspect of Reanimation
    • Increases the damage of Minions.
    • Does not increase the damage of Fel Gluttony.
    • Does not increase the damage of Ring of Mendeln.
  • Unyielding Commander’s Aspect
    • Increases the damage of Minions.
    • Does not increase the damage of Ring of Mendeln.
    • Increases the damage of Army of the Dead.
      • Note: The last few skelies don’t seem to benefit as their animation lasts longer than the active duration of AotD.
  • Conceited Aspect
    • Increases the damage of Minions.
    • Does not increase the damage of Ring of Mendeln.
  • Aspect of Inner Calm
    • Increases the damage of Minions.
    • Increases the damage of Ring of Mendeln.
  • Aspect of Elements
    • Increases the damage of Minions.
    • Does not increase the damage of Ring of Mendeln.
  • Aspect of Redirected Force
    • Increases the damage of Minions.
    • Increases the damage of Ring of Mendeln.
    • The value is aspect strength times block chance. (e.g. 40% is Block Chance [30%] x 0.40 = 1.12x damage)
  • Aspect of Retribution
    • Increases the damage of Minions.
    • Does not increase the damage of Ring of Mendeln.
  • Blighted Aspect
    • Increases the damage of Minions.
    • Increases the damage of Ring of Mendeln.
  • Blood Getter’s Aspect
    • Increases the damage of Minions.
    • Increases the damage of Ring of Mendeln.
  • Aspect of the Damned
    • Increases the damage of Shadow mages.
    • Increases the damage of Aphotic Aspect warriors while the skeletal priest is active.
    • This specifies shadow damage and as such should not work with Ring of Mendeln and does not.
  • Aspect of Great Feast
    • Increases the damage of Minions.
    • Does not increase the damage of Ring of Mendeln.
  • Edgemaster’s Aspect
    • Does not increase the damage of Minions.
    • Does not increase the damage of Ring of Mendeln.
    • Neither are skills and as such it should not work on them.
  • Vehement Brawler’s Aspect
    • Increases the damage of Minions.
    • Increases the damage of Ring of Mendeln.
  • Aspect of Untimely Death
    • Increases the Critical Strike Damage of Minions.
    • Does not increase the Critical Strike Damage of Ring of Mendeln.
  • Bone Duster’s Aspect
    • Bone Spears cast by Bone Mages do not overpower inside of Bone Prison.
  • Shademist Aspect
    • Triggers Shadowblight.
    • No longer triggers Ring of Mendeln stacks. Working as intended.
  • Coldbringer’s Aspect
    • No longer triggers Ring of Mendeln stacks. Working as intended.

Items

  • Heir of Perdition
    • Increases the damage of Minions.
    • Increases the damage of Ring of Mendeln.
  • The Grandfather
    • Increases the Critical Strike Damage of Minions.
    • Increases the Critical Strike Damage of Ring of Mendeln.
  • Tyrael’s Might
    • Requires testing.
  • Blood Moon Breeches
    • Increases the Critical Strike Damage of Minions.
    • Does not increase the Critical Strike Damage of Ring of Mendeln.
  • Tibault’s Will
    • Increases the damage of Minions.
    • Increases the damage of Ring of Mendeln.
  • Penitent Greaves
    • Increases the damage of Minions.
    • Increases the damage of Ring of Mendeln.
  • Fists of Fate
    • Increases the damage of Minions.
    • Increases the damage of Ring of Mendeln.
  • Ring of Starless Skies
    • Increases the damage of Minions.
    • Increases the damage of Ring of Mendeln.
  • Locran’s Talisman
    • Does not increase the damage of Minions.
    • Increases the damage of Ring of Mendeln.
  • Godslayer Crown
    • Increases the damage of Minions.
    • Does not increase the damage of Ring of Mendeln.
  • Razorplate
    • Requires testing.
  • Bloodless Scream
    • Increases the damage of Shadow Mages and Aphotic Warriors.
    • Note: I found this one on accident because I never imagined it would work.
  • Blood Lord’s Talisman
    • Increases the critical + overpower damage of Minions.
    • Note: Testing the black flash version of damage is horrible please don’t make me do anymore of this.

Passives

  • Shadowblight
    • Shadow mages can trigger.
    • Aphotic Aspect warriors can trigger while skeletal priest is active.
  • Kalan’s Edict
    • Does not increase the damage of Minions.
    • Increases the damage of Ring of Mendeln.
  • Affliction
    • Increases the damage of Minions.
    • Increases the damage of Ring of Mendeln.
  • Fueled by Death
    • Increases the damage of Minions.
    • Increases the damage of Ring of Mendeln.
  • Titan’s Fall
    • Increases the damage of Minions.
    • Increases the damage of Ring of Mendeln.
      • Note: Didn’t have it set to Elite Training dummy. There is a lot here, I missed a few things and I am trying to update information as It is found.
  • Death’s Embrace
    • Increases the damage of Minions.
    • Increases the damage of Ring of Mendeln.
  • Amplify Damage
    • Increases the damage of Minions.
    • Increases the damage of Ring of Mendeln.
  • Coalesced Blood
    • Increases the damage of Minions.
    • Increases the damage of Ring of Mendeln.
  • Reaper’s Pursuit
    • Increases the damage of Minions.
    • Increases the damage of Ring of Mendeln.
  • Finality
    • Increases the damage of Minions.
    • Increases the damage of Ring of Mendeln.
  • Hellbent Commander
    • Increases the damage of Minions.
    • Does not increase the damage of Ring of Mendeln.
  • Inspiring Leader
    • Working as intended.
  • Warrior, Mage, and Golem Mastery
    • Increases the damage of Minions.
    • Increases the damage of Ring of Mendeln.
    • Mage and Golem Mastery increase the damage of AotD even without Mage or Golem additive.
  • Warrior, Mage, and Golem Additive Damage
    • Increases the damage of Minions.
    • Increases the damage of Ring of Mendeln.
  • Summoning Damage
    • Does not increase the damage of AotD.
  • Intelligence
    • Increases the damage of Minions.
    • Increases the damage of Ring of Mendeln.
  • Vulnerable Damage
    • Increases the damage of Minions.
    • Increases the damage of Ring of Mendeln.
  • Critical Damage
    • Increases the damage of Minions.
    • Increases the damage of Ring of Mendeln.
  • Overpower Damage
    • Increases the damage of Minions.
    • Increases the damage of Ring of Mendeln.

Active Skills

  • Skeletal Priest
    • Does not increase the damage of Minions.
    • Increases the damage of Ring of Mendeln.
  • Supernatural Blight
    • Increases the damage of Minions.
    • Increases the damage of Ring of Mendeln.
  • Dreadful Bloodmist
    • Increases the damage of Minions.
    • Increases the damage of Ring of Mendeln.
  • Dreadful Bone Prison
    • Increases the damage of Minions.
    • Increases the damage of Ring of Mendeln.
  • Supreme Soulrift
    • Increases the damage of Minions.
    • Increases the damage of Ring of Mendeln.

Paragon

  • Cult Leader “Legendary Paragon Node”
    • Increases the damage of Minions.
    • Increases the damage of Ring of Mendeln.
    • Does not increase the damage of AotD.
  • Hulking Monstrosity
    • Increases the auto attack damage of the Golem.
    • Increases the active damage of the Golem
    • Increases the damage of Ring of Mendeln.
    • Increases the additive Golem damage and as such AotD.
  • Maximum Summon Life
    • Increases the overpower damage of Minions.

Glyphs

  • Golem Glyph
    • Increases the auto attack damage of the Golem.
    • Increases the active damage of the Golem.
    • Increases the damage of Ring of Mendeln.
    • Increases the damage and scaling of AotD by 10% regardless of bonus from glyph.
  • Mage Glyph
    • Increases the auto attack damage of the Mage.
    • Increases the damage of Ring of Mendeln.
    • Does not increase the scaling or damage of AotD.
  • Warrior Glyph
    • Increases the auto attack damage of the Warrior.
    • Increases the damage of Ring of Mendeln.
  • Abyssal
    • Increases the damage of Non-Physical minion attacks.
  • Amplify
    • Increases the damage of Minions.
    • Increases the damage of Ring of Mendeln.
  • Control
    • Increases the damage of Minions.
    • Increases the damage of Ring of Mendeln.
  • Corporeal
    • Increases the damage of Minions.
    • Increases the damage of Ring of Mendeln.
  • Darkness
    • Requires testing.
  • Deadraiser
    • Increases the damage of Minions.
    • Increases the damage of Ring of Mendeln.
  • Dominate
    • Increases the damage of Minions.
    • Increases the damage of Ring of Mendeln.
  • Eliminator
    • Increases the damage of Minions.
    • Does not increase the damage of Ring of Mendeln.
  • Essence
    • Increases the damage of Minions.
    • Increases the damage of Ring of Mendeln.
  • Exploit
    • Increases the damage of Minions.
    • Increases the damage of Ring of Mendeln.
  • Gravekeeper
    • Increases the damage of Minions.
    • Increases the damage of Ring of Mendeln.
  • Revenge
    • Increases the damage of Minions.
    • Does not increases the damage of Ring of Mendeln.
  • Territorial
    • Additive seems to work but not the multiplier.

Book of the Dead

  • Blood Golem “Upgrade 2”
    • Does not increase the auto attack damage of the Golem.
    • Does not increase the active damage of the Golem.
    • Increases the damage of Ring of Mendeln.
  • Skirmisher
    • Increases the damage of Skirmishers.
    • Does not increase the damage of Ring of Mendeln.
  • Shadow Mage “Upgrade 1”
    • Increases the damage of Minion auto attacks.
    • Increases the damage of Ring of Mendeln.
  • Reaper “Upgrade 2”:
    • Does not generate corpses.
  • Cold Mage “Upgrade 1”:
    • Does not generate essence per attack.

Lucky Hit Chance

  • The Butcher’s Cleaver
    • Procs chance to Fear.
    • Procs chance to Slow.
  • Necrotic Fortitude
    • Is providing a LHC barrier even after removing points, rezoning, and relogging?
  • Aspect of Accursed Touch
    • Can be applied by Minions LHC.
  • Frostburn
    • Procs Fire damage.
    • Procs Cold damage.
  • Azurewrath
    • Procs Freeze and damage.
    • Procs Cold damage.
  • Lidless Wall
    • Requires testing.
  • Doombringer
    • Procs Lucky Hit Chance to Heal.
    • Procs Shadow damage.
  • Andariel’s Visage
    • Requires testing.
    • I don’t have one…
  • Bloodless Scream
    • Shadow Mages can proc the chill and freeze.
    • Aphotic Warriors can not proc the chill or freeze.
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cool tyvm.
logged in recently and can logout again :smiley:

(sadly that players need to test instead of blizzard do it correct)

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what was blizzard doing in the past 2 weeks or so? holy moly

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Probably publishing multiple test builds internally and forgot to unify them all so fixes are getting overwritten.

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Jesus this company is worthless.

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Yeah, this is just awful. Blizzard is confirming their complete incompetence.
i… i give up

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Geez. Thanks for testing it. So we have to refer to a list to know what to equip or not as Mendeln might, or not, work with said aspect/item/paragon. Yay.

What’s ridiculous is that two of those that already didn’t work, but should have (Reanimation and Unyielding Commander’s) didn’t even get fixed. What did they even do in the last month when it comes to Mendeln? A lot of the other aspects who currently work, probably already worked with Mendeln.

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This is unacceptable for a company of this caliber.

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Thank you for a such detailed test sheet, very much appericiated! Recently leveled a minion necromancer to play the fixed archetype summoner and it’s bug fixed core ring but seems have to wait for it to function properly. Maybe we could send this to community manager Adam Fletcher (PezRadar). I’ll try on X.

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two to three more seasons like this max and we will be in maintenance mode

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Yeesh I only recently found my first mendeln and was looking forward to it being fixed today. Guess if I find a second ancestral legendary ring I will just stash it and hope it has a future in eternal.

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oh i’m sure he his very aware lol.
btw, this damn ring has been bugged at some point for every season. which is sad.

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classic Blizzard :rofl: :rofl:

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It’s not the ring, it’s the game.

The game is a dumpster fire of bugs that burns hotter than the sun.

Honestly though, the game has been in development/beta for over a decade now. This includes replacing team leads multiple times.

I doubt the devs they have right now even know how the code works or interacts. Those with the knowledge left/were fired a long time ago.

We’re looking at what is likely junior devs who have maybe 1-2 years of experience out of school trying to fix a web of spaghetti code that they had no part in designing.

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Microsoft needs to step in and fire every single Bliz dev and start over with Microsoft Teams. Sorry but its time. This is beyond comical. This is just utterly pathetic.

Most of the point of 2.1.2 was to fix this ring and they cant even do it. They cant even fix 1 thing. Im just completely flabbergasted and defeated. I made a minion necro as my main char and by the time its fixed it will be march or april.

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If you keep up with Blizzards other products you would know that around April 2024 all seasonal patches in all versions of Blizzards games started to launch in beyond broken states.

Season of Discovery Sunken Temple, a level40 raid launched with Black Temple, a level70 raids health pools, it needed to be nerfed twice before the extremely good players could kill it and four times before your average players could kill it. This patch also launched with a quest that was up for only 12hrs but this quest yielded such high rewards that Blizzard had to add a perma exp and quest gold reward buff to counter balance it. Cata launch I was told was horrible, retail is no different, raids are literally tested on the fly at season launch, quests are broken, npcs are broken, sockets are broken, and I could go on and on.

My tinfoil hat take on all of this is around April 2024 Blizzard fired all in house testing and are relying on some jank AI and player testing. Player testing is usually good with Diablo 4 however just before this season came out Path of Exile 2 came out and instead of your usual players doing the 1-2 week open test period they kept playing Path of Exile 2 which resulted in everything this season being in such a broken state.

I really like this game but also knowing Blizzards track record, if this keeps up for 2-3 more seasons this game will most likely end up in maintenance mode though to be fair, it already feels like its in maintenance mode with how poorly testing is currently.

I think whats so bothersome of all about all of this is instead of fixing things on the fly they removed easy to farm alters in small dungeons people made videos on ( within 12hrs of videos being made ). They add items to the store and blast us to go to the store. And when people express being upset about all of this threads are deleted. I made a thread stating exactly what I did in this post and it was deleted for trolling waiting for a mod to review it. In someone elses thread being upset I posted this again and that thread is also gone. Why is effort going into these things instead of testing?

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Now you can write serious patch notes for us to laugh at

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I cant make up anything more sad and comical than what is happening. I actually already predicted the future in my previous patch notes that they removed as one of them was something like this:

Ring of mendlen is now correctly named based on its journey as Ring of MendMendMendMendlen which no joke is exactly where we are at.

OMG! :rofl: Joke becomes reality.

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We are not even the QA.

They released Bloodwave in the same state as PTR. They reduced the power by like 10% and the build was 1 shotting Pit 150 on PTR. My 5 year old nephew could do a better balance :exclamation:

I am sorry to say but i think its more about Intelligence Quotient at this point :skull:

Really sadge

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Thank you for your report, fellow QA tester!!