Charms no longer Affected by Affliction Items

[Zephaus]

Ceramic Skull of Decay no longer seems to be affecting Charm spells. I don't see any changes in the spell or effect at Lucy that would explain it...

Edit: I reported that the Gavel of Justice wasn't working either, but I can't be sure...

/bug reports have been submitted...

Keep your fingers crossed.

[hamilia]

*Stolen from the shaman boards*

I love patches....
Affliction haste 3, extended affliction 4, enhancement haste 3 are broken for me...

hoping this is not an intentional nerf but a verant messup

[Cantatus]

General concensous at the Enchanter boards is that this is a bug. Not only are the Ceramic Hammer of Justice and Skull of Decay no longer working for charms, but also slows, roots, mezzes, and debuffs. Currently, they are only working for DoTs.

[Unmei]

Uh oh.

Much as this concerns me, that is exactly how those focus effects were described as being "supposed" to work when they first introduced focus items...

[Emelyn]

They're actually not working for enchanter dots either.

[Unmei]

Hmm.

I've heard conflicting reports about whether they are working for DoTs... and I can't get on to test it right now either.

[Cantatus]

They work on my Enchanter's DoTs. (Tested right before I wrote this.)

[Montes Darkwisp]

Not a bug.

"Update to the Patch Message for 2-4-03
With the patch on February 4th we fixed a bug with Affliction foci, but we failed to mention it in the patch message. We corrected a bug that was allowing these foci to work for too many spell types, including things like snares and slow. Affliction foci now only work on damage over time spells.

We apologize for not mentioning this fix in the patch message.

The very high savings in cast time and mana, as well as the extended duration, were planned to only work on damage over time spells. These spells needed more help than all other detrimental spells. The affliction foci for haste and mana are dramatically better (more than twice as effective) than other items of the type. The extension focus is better than any other as well, though not to such a degree. These items are only so much better than others because they were intended only to improve the effect of damage over time spells to bolster their value.

We fixed a similar bug in June of 2002. Some time between then and now the bug resurfaced. The bug was fixed while another was being addressed, and because it wasn't the targeted bug fix it didn't make it into the patch message. We certainly wouldn't have left this information out on purpose.

We understand that this change has an effect on some players. But these foci have always been intended to work exclusively on DoT spells, and we do not plan to undo the bug fix. We'll look at other detrimental spells and see if there are some lines that should benefit from similar focus items, but that will be done on a case-by-case basis and not by reverting this recent bug fix.

Alan"

[Zephaus]

This is ludicrous. It's bad enough to leave a bug in for 8 months. It's another to introduce an entire series of items in the mean time that have the effect.

[Cantatus]

Going to lock this thread since discussion is occuring already here.

Also, if you feel the need to rant about this change, please take it to the Primal Scream Room.

Thanks!