Damnation bugged?Follow

Well, I don't know if I have just been extremely unlucky, but I have yet to land Damnation on a target. I am nearly level 11 and every single on of my Damnations has been evaded! It was never this bad ;_;

EDIT! Disregard. It seems it was just an unbelievable run of bad luck. I have finally connected with the ability! Really, I must have missed over 100 times :/

Edited, Sep 23rd 2010 6:02am by Kordain

Just out of interest has your PIE stat been raised to similar levels as INT and MND? and on a similar note (although I think a lot of people think this doesnt matter) is your DEX raised?

I'm just curious (and this is just a question, because this is so new that not much info is out there) but what type of enemies were you fighting when you attempted to use it? Were the enemies ones that you would consider strong to Umbral type abilities?

I'm assuming you are at least level 10 if you can use Damnation, are you at level 12 yet? If you hit level 12, can you see if there is any difference in your ability to land the spells Bio (Umbral) and Banish (Astral)?

I'm totally eyeballing what I saw from Beta, but at a glance it looked as if some enemies were easier to attack with Umbral type damage and some were easier to attack with Astral type damage. When I was messing around, I thought it seemed harder to land Umbral type spells/abilities on something like Puks, but that may just be me going crazy.



I've got tons of questions and no real place to find the answers except in the actual game.

Both Dia and Bio can get resisted. In my testing spells do seem to land diffeenetly on certain mobs although not enough testing has been done in-game yet to confirm which mobs are resistent or weak to certain spells - this has also not been done with CON's ele spellset.

I would at least raise VIT a little anyway - however why dont you try rassigning points and put a lot more into DEX and see if that helps - you can always reassign if it doesnt work.

I have put almost everything into PIE and I still get resisted a ton

Why are you putting points into str and dex? I was under the impression they did nothing for us. Including the dart. Its a magical attack.

I kinda had the same problem and there's a simple solution and it's not dex. Make sure your weapon is not broken and make sure it is up to date. Obviously your gonna miss lvl 10 mobs with a weathered scepter, try upgrading to a bone staff or copper scepter, worked for me.

Getting yourself 4 Bone Rings (+2 Magic Acc each) seemed to make a noticable difference too. I'd deffinately recommend upgrading weapon and getting those rings.

DEX seems to play a very small part in accuracy full stop. A lot of DoW's complain they miss a lot even with high dex.

I'm wearing 4 bone rings, and a Square Ash Shield (3 magic acc) with 49 piety, and I still miss or get evaded at least 50% of the time -- Something I have tried out using Damnation before anything else on a mob has 100% hit rate. I have never actually missed with the spell when its the first thing I use. That to me would indicate there is something strange in the to-hit code for the spell.

When fighting red or orange mobs my damnation seems to hit less. Could it just be the level of the mob you are fighting i.e. the mobs eva?

str:12
vit:20 (+8)
dex:15

int: 60
mind: 40
piety:40

I fail a little, but not as much as seems your failing :/

I have taken Damnation off of my bars completely now.

Since I hit 16 and have Stygian Spikes, Mana is no longer an issue. I cannot justify taking 3 points to put a TP ability on my bar, where I could have something useful like Dia or Bio instead. Dia + Punishing Barbs = win.

I think all of the dot abilities like dia, bio, poison, and even CON's elemental dot abilities are all next to completely worthless. The damage is laughably bad. Why can't Square make dots badass like in a Western MMO.

That having been said, damnation / radiance are both worthless too. Miss 60% of the time and you hardly get any MP back from these moves at all.