Thread: Oil = reduced damage?

OK Update 7.1 has come and gone and we still have a new bug/change that has not been addressed or even acknowledged as to whether it is an intended change or indeed is a bug.

Applying an Oil reduces the damage done by Split Shot & it also is unaffected by Rain of Thorns for crit resets.

Is this working as intended?

Is this indeed a bug?

If it is a bug when can we expect a fix?

Knowing the Devs, we'll get something like...

"Split Shot's damage was always higher then intended, but the Oil did cause a reduction in it's induction. We are working on the problem. After the fix, Split Shot's damage will be the current oil version, but it's induction will be the non-oil version."

No skill's damage should be affected by the oil change; only the damage type should be affected (IE Beleriand Damage --> Fire Damage). This is a bug, not WAI. Also, the fact it is not reset by Rain of Arrows depends whether the trait bonus/armour bonus originally intended to reset both skills on a critical. If so, then it is indeed a bug, but I never got the armour set that affects Split Shot.

The induction was reduced with U7 and again should not be affected by the oils. Split Shot should have the same induction time as Quick Shot.

http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.p...-changes/page2

There's the information about the Split Shot bug.

Originally Posted by Grhysli

OK Update 7.1 has come and gone and we still have a new bug/change that has not been addressed or even acknowledged as to whether it is an intended change or indeed is a bug.

Applying an Oil reduces the damage done by Split Shot & it also is unaffected by Rain of Thorns for crit resets.

Is this working as intended?

Is this indeed a bug?

If it is a bug when can we expect a fix?

Splitshot without oil:
1.5 second indcution time
520-828 Damage

with light oil/fire:
1 second incuction
501-809 Damaged

so you have an induction reduce, and an damage reduce. hmm, could be fair, but is strange.

a crit with rains of thorns never retested the CD of split shot or rain of arrows (or never should do that)

This is only on Split Shot, right? I didn't realize people actually ever used it.

Originally Posted by PhantomPunkk

This is only on Split Shot, right? I didn't realize people actually ever used it.

If I'm in an AoE fight and RoA choose to ignore all odds (10 targets, 25-30% crit chance and 10-15% dev chance) and does not give me one crit, I usually use Split Shot for a chance of getting a crit so I can keep on spamming RoA

Not a bad bug!
My split shot induction went from 1.2s to 0.8s after applying oil. We like em fast!