Report 914

Report #914
Skillset: Lowmagic Skill: Circle/Pentagram
 Org: Harbingers Status: Completed Aug 2013
Furies' Decision:
Solution 2 if possible.
Problem: Currently, when a bard shields, their passive offensive abilities stop
having any effect on their enemies. This was bugged and returned as not a bug.
This report simply seeks to change that.
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #1: Change it so that when a bard shields, their passive
 offensive abilities do not cease working.
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #2: In addition to solution 1, allow the
 sheen/equivalents for chems/woods to not break
 shields when the chemancer/wood is behind a shield as
 well.
Player Comments:
---[Llandros on 7/20 @ 03:57 writes]:
Solution 1 is fine. Abilities that passively block themselves need a little
tweaking. Could also just make shield powers not block bard songs but whateves.
---[Enyalida on 7/21 @ 17:06 writes]:
Yeah, this sounds like a bug.
---[Synkarin on 7/22 @ 16:07 writes]:
I'd rather change this to have bard effects not stopped by shielding in general,
and apply it to all bard songs. This seems a bit off.
---[Siam on 7/25 @ 18:23 writes]:
This has been bugged and was returned as not, so the report was created. Will
add solution 2 as per suggestions
---[Siam on 7/25 @ 18:30 writes]:
Reworking the entire report
---[Enyalida on 7/27 @ 20:41 writes]:
Solution 2
---[Neos on 7/29 @ 03:46 writes]:
Since this is being changed to target Circle/Pentagram and not just one specific
instance, it'd be awesome if it could also be changed so that when a
sheen/equivalent for the chems/woods gets triggered while someone is behind a
shield, that the shield isn't broken, especially since the mage/druid has 0
control over the sheen/equivalent.
---[Siam on 7/30 @ 18:26 writes]:
As a note, this report originally intended to address Wyrdsong's shield,
however, given the comments that came up, we saw it prudent to target the
lowmagic/highmagic shields instead.
---[Siam on 7/30 @ 19:29 writes]:
Added Neos' suggestion for solution 2
---[Enyalida on 7/31 @ 03:23 writes]:
A good middle ground "fix this only for wyrdsong's shield, and solution 1" would
be welcome.
---[Synkarin on 8/6 @ 15:30 writes]:
What kind of middle ground is needed here? No other class with passive effects
has their offensive effects stop when they shield, so why should bards? It just
doesn't make sense to have this happen.
---[Shuyin on 8/7 @ 16:56 writes]:
Sure
---[Wobou on 8/8 @ 00:29 writes]:
Solution 2.
---[Viynain on 8/11 @ 07:40 writes]:
Solution 2 would be ideal.
---[Kio on 8/13 @ 20:41 writes]:
Solution 2.
---[Xenthos on 8/17 @ 14:59 writes]:
Solution 2.