Valeera's Cloak of darkness is still killing folks

Valeera has been around this entire expansion in the delves. I’ve reported it, others have reported it, it’s be bug reported and posted here. Please folks, fix this The spell is called “Cloak of Darkness” and does a purple circle at your feet.

I can add more, but I don’t need to. DPS and tanks are standing the purple and it’s deleting their characters in HPs. The only way to survive it? Get out fast and stay fast. There are more posts about “Valeera’s purple circle of death” if you want to go lookin…

Please, please fix this.

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Do you happen to have your logs showing what damaged you? Did you check?

I do that every time I die. So I can see things like Double Bite doing a trillion damage or a slime boi also doing a trillion damage with a crit.

Cloak of Darkness gives you a damage reduction aura. It’s not damaging you.

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are we talking about the purple circle? because that thing is absolutely deadly

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Are we sure its the Cloak of Darkness? I have yet to see anyone upload a log proving it.

Chances are the Cloak is being dropped at the same time another AoE or thing is happening. For example there are Thorns mobs in some delves.

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I agree with the others. Report as a bug or look into if the buff is dropping off too quickly.

:surfing_woman: :surfing_man:

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is it the purple circle? because she will spawn that ontop of the green one and i just take tons of damage. this is on my hunter where i am not even in range to take damage and i misdirect everything onto valeera

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As I said, there are Thorns mobs in delves. (Thorns redirects damage to the dealer. MD wouldnt do anything to that, I dont think).

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There’s a possibility that it increases damage taken instead. Wouldn’t be the first time they’ve messed up something like that.

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this has been ongoing in every delve since she was introduced. i don’t think they all have thorns. if i stand in that purple my health goes down like it’s a strong DoT every time

i will have to check the log next time i do one

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Empirical proof is always nice to have. :grinning_face:

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So.

Do we stand in the purple circle or not?

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When in doubt, get out.

Blizz taught us purple on ground = bad. My health chunks in it and I stops when I step out. I don’t know if it’s covering another AoE or a bug. Don’t care. I see purple, I move.

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its a struggle, right?

like, IRL purple is such a delicious color. I will approach purple IRL!

here, my sub conscience is like, purple! lets go! awe, we can’t? whhhy??!

just a toe, please just a toe!

NO!

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Guys - logs or screenshots.

It’s possible it’s bugged, but it’s also possible you’re mistaking the issue for something else. That’s especially relevant because it seems that many delvers (including myself) have gone all of Midnight without ever experiencing such a thing.

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It’s not? I stand in it all the time with no consequence? I beat ?? Snake Man standing in it?

It is not in and of itself deadly, and no one is posting logs saying it is getting them killed or otherwise harmed.

I don’t like believing in placebos. There needs to be logs of it actually doing something to your character. I can see it disguising harmful purple circles but that is it.

That I can see! I just haven’t seen nor felt that. The description I’m given is that it is just nuking the OP and Matty out of existence.

And it doesn’t do that.

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Without logs or a video it’s kind of hard to believe this ability is killing anyone. In my experience, she’s casting it in response to my character suddenly taking a bunch of damage. When I was doing the ?? nemesis last night Valeera would cast it in response to me getting crit by an auto attack. I stood in it every attempt and never died while in it. I think you guys are seeing it appear when you’re taking a bunch of damage and confusing the cause and effect.

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I have yet to have an issue to be able to even check what the logs say, not once have I been damaged that badly with a massive debuff of any sort sitting inside that purple circle or I would be checking logs.

I bet it has the same “bug” that BDK apex talent had. Where instead of reducing dmg taken, it’s increasing it.

It’s not really a bug though, it’s literally just an incompetent dev putting the wrong numbers in.

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All I know is that if I stand in it my health tanks but as soon as I step out of it I go back to taking “normal” damage.

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hey i am happy to learn something if i am wrong :man_shrugging:

it didn’t kill me but i would always move out of it because i was taking damage which seems odd because i am always MD big packs onto valeera and FD shortly after dropping big burst, and not near the mobs

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