first thing is to repeat that vanessa’s burgle barrage ability no longer steals attack in any way that i have tried, and as others have already mentioned in other posts … i’m putting this first and foremost because it needs to be addressed
secondly, i have tried five ways of trying to get vanessa’s task 10 (disarm and decapitate) to progress and none of them work … two of these methods involve the use of vanessa’s other two pieces of equipment instead of dreadblades, and two just have her passively on the board while other mercs with attack steal capabilities do their thing:
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vanessa w/ extra pockets + eudora – quite simply, just continually using the battlecry attack steal until enemies are brought to zero and then winning the battle … does not progress task
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vanessa w/ blade catcher + nemsy + anachondra – nemsy to give vanessa taunt, anachondra to heal the enemy until it bashes into vanessa enough to go to 0 attack, then winning the battle … does not progress the task
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xuen + vanessa – xuen’s attack steal from pounce does not progress the task
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nefarian + vanessa – stealing the attack from enemy dragons with chromatic infusion until they are at 0 attack does not progress the task
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aranna + vanessa – killing enemies under the influence of felodic intonement or iambic pentameter do no progress the task
in all of those cases, i made sure vanessa got the killing blow on the enemies with 0 attack using burgle barrage in case that would make any difference (and it didn’t apparently)
i have not yet tried utilizing sneed because the account i am testing on does not have him yet … however, i think it is fairly safe to say that task 10’s progress trigger needs to be fixed, and perhaps the text needs to be updated to specify exactly what kinds of attack reducing effects will count, such as if only burgle barrage’s combo effect is supposed to be used
… which brings us back to the first point which is that burgle barrage is still broken, and as others have mentioned there are other tasks in her chain which require she specifically gain attack using burgle barrage (task 12 and task 17)
in short, please fix all of these issues surrounding vanessa van cleef – thanks!