Sometimes spells land but deal no damage

**Ropethunder** · #1 06-01-2010, 12:44 PM

When casting cinder bolt (this has happened with various other spells) the spell will land (soanso is bathed in fire) but there is no damage in the chat and the mob's health doesn't go down.

I don't know how to duplicate it because it's very intermittent. Maybe a wizard can confirm this?

**Rogean** · #2 06-01-2010, 12:55 PM

I'm sure we would have heard much about this if it was a real bug. Perhaps your filtering is off or out of range? Moving to technical...

Mingo · #3 06-01-2010, 01:39 PM

No, this exists Rogean, promise. It seems to be when a nuke is resisted down to almost no dmg. Spam a 20 dmg nuke a bunch on a semi resistant mob and you can replicate it. I assumed this meant the spell did 1 dmg or something.

**Ropethunder** · #4 06-01-2010, 01:49 PM

This spell does a pretty good chunk of damage. It's fairly obvious when it doesn't do any damage.

I'll make an effort to stand closer to make certain that I'm not missing any damage notifications (but I did get the bathed in fire part).

Omnimorph · #5 06-01-2010, 02:43 PM

cinder bolt one of those los spells where you see the bolt flying towards mob?

Prolly an issue with LoS more than anything i imagine.

**Ropethunder** · #6 06-01-2010, 02:49 PM

It actually hits the mob though (soanso is bathed in fire).

**Ropethunder** · #7 06-01-2010, 03:43 PM

I want to confirm this:

I had a spell land (soandso is bathed in fire) with no damage being listed. I cast the spell again and it said "soandso is bathed in fire" and then "soandso was hit by non-melee for 333 points of damage."

So I was definitely in range for the first spell.

Lazortag · #8 06-01-2010, 05:05 PM

The Bard direct damage spell (something's Boastful Bellow or something like that, it's the first direct damage spell, I forget what level it's obtained at) occasionally does this - you just get "(target) reels in pain" but you don't see the damage message.

Kainzo · #9 06-01-2010, 05:48 PM

Maybe it didn't do 1 damage and instead did 0 damage.

Some spells (the paladin stuns) could be fully resisted but still actually PUSH the mob the way you were facing, could be one of those things, if there was a secondary affect on the spell it could trigger but do no damage.

Effect 1 = Dmg
Effect 2 = stun
Effect 3 = push +5 yards

etc..

Omnimorph · #10 06-01-2010, 05:48 PM

I had this happen to my cleric just now. Nuked a red con, wasn't resisted but no damage.

Saying that, what i have had happen before is that my dmg message has gone to 2 different windows before. Not quite sure the reason why, usually happens if i'm REALLY close to a mob, it'll go in my main chat window in a diff colour.

Very strange.