Haven’t been able to find anything about this so apologies if it has been covered. According to the description, when talented into Blightburst, Putrefy is supposed to spread your plagues to unaffected targets. I have noticed this seems to happen only intermittently and was hoping if someone could enlighten me as to how this portion of the talent works. When I open with Putrefy, sometimes my target is plagued, sometimes they are not and same goes for targets in AoE. Thank you in advance.
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I tested the ability on some of the target dummies in dornogal and it does apply VP in aoe but it depends thought whether it is 8 secs or 12 secs or 18 secs. It has weird kind of duration on each time you use purefy. However, I notice on tanking dummy it often does get VP or doesn’t on aoe especially when if some of the mobs are couple inches away from each other, it doesnt register the plague when you use it. So, they gotta be stack so they get hit with VP
I assume in theory it should apply VP and DP to one target and in AoE, VP to the rest? Unless it just doesn’t show on my UI 100%, it seems hit or miss. I’ll hit putrefy on a single target let’s say, wait a second or two, and still no plagues on the target. I don’t know if the way it is coded the lesser ghoul can essentially miss and not apply the plagues at all… because I assume that is the mechanism even though the spell reads as if it just applies the plagues just by the press of the ability itself. I’ll try and do dummy testing as so far my experience is just running around and playing as normal.
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I think it is your end that you might be experiencing an bug of sort because it does applies on my side. Have you tried making an ticket about it?
This isnt quite right, it extends diseases, and applies diseases that putrefy hits. If the ghoul explosion doesnt hit then no diseases and no extension.
Im not seeing any issues with it.
Yes, whatever target you use Putrefy on gets DP and VP, the rest get VP when Putrefy actually hits the target/targets.
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That’s fair, then. The way I am reading the talent is just off. In my defense, my putrefy ghouls have terrible accuracy if that is the case.
I’ve noticed this to be hit and miss. Sometimes I find myself wondering why the ability is on cooldown and nothing happened. I don’t think you have to ‘aim’ it so not sure what is going on.
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From what it looks like to me, is that your putrefy ghoul can overshoot if you cast it from range and essentially airball. That is what the visual is indicating to me, at least. I thought maybe I was using it wrong but all the guides I have read indicate that blightburst putrefies are what are used in place of outbreak, hence why I figured I’d ask here what better, more experienced players have noticed.
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If the target is stationary it should still hit. Ill go look to see if enemy movement causes misses. If so then the issue it first had is still a problem. Ill also look at it from range.
I couldnt get it to miss target dummies though.
My inital perception is that as soon as I hit the button from range, I draw aggro, moving the mob causing an apparent miss. If this is the case, I think dummy testing won’t show it. Seems to work well in melee. Might be more exacerbated solo… dungeons with a tank rounding up mobs might hide the issue. Haven’t tried it in group content.
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I have been experiemcing the same thing. Specced into blightburst, hit putrify and wait, no diseases on target.
Putrefy has to hit the target. When you hit the putrefy button, the ghoul basically locks on to a point in space, and will jump to that point in space. Not to your target. If the target moves out of the range of the putrefy explosion, they won’t get the diseases.
So if you putrefy from range, the mob starts running toward you and gets 10 yards away from it’s starting location by the time the ghoul spawns and jumps in, then your target may not get the diseases since it wasn’t hit by the ghoul’s explosion.
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I couldnt get it to miss. Whether pulling with Putrefy or pulling with something like Death Coil and then Putrefy so the target had a higher movement speed. It was always 18 seconds as well.
Maybe it has to do with certain enemy hitboxes being small with a higher movement speed? If you think about it, a smaller hitbox can get out of the range of the explosion easier than a bigger hit box especially if the ghoul aims for right behind the center of the hitbox. If they get some kind higher movement speed then it makes it even easier to miss since putrefy isnt actually instant. It summons a ghoul which has a slight animation, then the travel time of the ghoul to the target which has an animation and then the explosion. If they can get far enough away in those 2 animations then its possible to whiff it.
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Correct. I just death grip in before using it and once the other mobs catch up, Scourge Strike will spread diseases to those targets or you can just save the second Putrefy until they stack Problem solved.
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