Consecration "incorrectly" counts as a debuff

Lawrence-grobbulus · March 16, 2020, 4:26pm

Blah blah fix it maybe one day before P5? Maybe? Maybe not? Probably not lets be real. Bliz why do you never give us some sweet sweet blue posts.

Lunavale-bleeding-hollow · March 20, 2020, 4:35pm

Man, someone is optimistic.

Theloras-herod · March 20, 2020, 5:53pm

this thread will be replied to when Classic catches up to Retail…

Exodiamaster-yojamba · March 22, 2020, 4:54pm

I hope we at least get an answer on this

Revanche-rattlegore · March 31, 2020, 7:30pm

Bump for visibility.

Reading this:

Makes me think Consecration has to act as a “harmful aura” in order to function in the WoW mechanics, and that the change to “remove it from the debuff list” should be reverted, as it is misleading…

Zindan-bloodsail-buccaneers · April 1, 2020, 9:43pm

Please at least inform us if this is working correctly or not. As Raid Leader I have to deal with telling players if they can use certain abilities that apply debuffs. After 3 weeks of investigating we’ve come to the same conclusion that consecration is invisibly occupying a debuff slot.

Blizzard explain to me why I may have to tell our one retribution paladin that they have to stop using consecration. A debuff that adds 20-40 dps out of their ~300 dps and is key in allowing them to parse 99+.

If you finally state that consecration should take a debuff slot I’ll accept it. Until then the responsibility is on you to fix this bug. I intended to make this my primary focus on the forums because you, Blizzard, make me do extra work as Raid Leader with debuff drama because of this.

Lawrence-grobbulus · April 9, 2020, 10:42pm

Imagine Blizzard ever fixing their bugs.

Theloras-herod · April 9, 2020, 10:57pm

what is this “fixing their bugs” you speak of…

Zindan-bloodsail-buccaneers · April 11, 2020, 4:09am

I look forward to seeing if Blizzard addresses this obvious bug during the release of ZG. I have little hope that they will though. At least companies like Cloud Imperium Games have a dedicated section called the Issues Council that actually looks at game issues. There’s little if zero feedback here. Even a blue post saying, “We’re investigating it.” gives some hope.

Lawrence-grobbulus · April 15, 2020, 11:14pm

You know the sad thing is I didn’t even get pissy about it for like 3 months. Honestly the lack of support for Classic is shameful. It feels like the support staff must have been gutted.

Theloras-herod · April 15, 2020, 11:28pm

I haven’t played for over 2 months cause there really isn’t any point anymore based on the craptastic job the devs and QA have done

Sieran-black-dragonflight · April 25, 2020, 1:01pm

Consecration was always a debuff. Videos below prove it.

Smeet-sulfuras · April 25, 2020, 1:26pm

That video was from before 1.9

It did at one point show as a debuff on the boss.

People here are wondering about the patch note here:
1.9.0 (03-Jan-2006):** No longer displays a debuff on targets in the area of effect.

It makes little sense for them to just hide the debuff when it is still acting as a debuff, since it is just hiding information from the players at that point. It does seem like that’s what blizzard did here, but it would be nice if they at least spoke up and said that the devs at the time were dumb and arbitrarily hid the debuff. (It’s not unreasonable to read that note and assume that it didn’t count as a debuff at that point, as why else would you hide it?)

Smeet-sulfuras · April 25, 2020, 1:30pm

We dont need to prove that. We have a patch note showing it stopped showing as one in 1.9.0

There are also plenty of videos around showing that it doesnt appear as a debuff after that.

What we don’t have is a video showing a boss with full debuffs and a consecrate being applied at that time, as paladin dps was incredibly rare back then.

Smeet-sulfuras · April 25, 2020, 7:00pm

This one is a bit more interesting. You do see a full 16 debuffs briefly at 28 seconds while consecration is on the ground though. Later in the fight it’s harder to tell as the group was rarely even close to 16 debuffs.

Lunavale-bleeding-hollow · April 26, 2020, 4:38pm

I mean, there is the naxx video I found from before as well. It’s unfortunate, but it is likely working correctly. (although I’ve never been an advocate for #nochanges. Entertainment should always be the goal)

That being said, it’s very hard for us the players to 100% confirm that. And assuming it’s working correctly, it would take Blizzard all of 10 seconds to test it and pop in here and tell us.

If the problem is that they can’t confirm if it’s working correctly on the “reference client”, that really throws a wrench into the authenticity of that…

Theloras-herod · April 26, 2020, 5:29pm

and yet this bug report was first written in November 2019…

lol “reference client”

Lawrence-grobbulus · May 8, 2020, 5:07pm

Literally do not care if this is or isn’t a bug, what I want is a damn reply from Blizzard at all.

Zeliek-moon-guard · May 8, 2020, 7:02pm

What do you mean? Blizzard got wiped out by the pandemic.

Theloras-herod · May 8, 2020, 7:29pm

TojiToday at 12:17 PM
imagine using Consecration
probably the most borked up spell in the game
debuff slot, spell resists, batching ticks,…
I swear Blizzard devs were huddled over a computer “LMAO NOW MAKE IT LOSE TICKS TO BATCHING”
“YEA DUDE, NOW PUT IT ON THE SPELL MISS TABLE”
“Guys…guys…make it take up a hidden debuff slot”