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[Submitted 68040] Strength of earth Buff wears off when switching screens

Discussion in 'Combat, Skills & Magic' started by jack102367, Aug 26, 2020.

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    I've had the strength of earth buff say it still had 50 mins left before it wore off and then I'll teleport to another scene and it's no longer active and have to rebuff. This seems to be very random and I can't reduce it on command, but it has happened several times. I'll try to figure out if there is a pattern and update this thread if I do.

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    Are you perhaps casting one of the other two stat buffs, "Air's Embrace" for dexterity or "Enlightenment" for Intelligence? Only one stat buff can be active at a time and casting one will overwrite an existing buff.
     
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    No, I'm just using STR of earth...…...it just happened to me again. Had 15 minutes on the buff before going into a siege and when I landed in the siege the buff was gone.
     
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    A lot of these buffs disappear on scene switch. I believe this is currently WAI, but not a dev, so don't know for sure.
     
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    verified. tldr: the duration is recalculated upon sceneload based upon the gear/buffs active at sceneload, which may give less attunement than it was originally cast with.

    long form: the initial duration is determined by your attunement when you cast it, but it will be recalculated on sceneload, when you may have fewer buffs active/different gear. ...so, if your standard cast is one hour unbuffed in your town clothes, but you gear up and cast it for 1:15, but then switch back to your town clothes and change scenes, it will recalculate the duration for the town clothes it loads the new scene with, which is only an hour, and IF the buff has already lasted more than an hour, it cancels it. (if it's been less than that initial hour, it'll still be applied, but the timer will be reduced.)

    example: cast a single in my mage-fighting gear (note duration), switch to town clothes (note unchanged duration), change scenes (note new duration)

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    NOT a confounding factor: charging. if i cast a six-stack in my mage-fighting gear and change scenes withOUT changing gear, the duration is unchanged.

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    i've been told each buff will need a seperate post, please.
     
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    I believe that it has more to do with the amount of time left on a buff than which buff.
     
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    that might be so, but one per buff has been requested.
     
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    Alley Oop, I'm not doubting what you're saying, but in my case, I'm not changing anything.......I'm simply teleporting from one scene to another when the buff just disappears.
     
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    any chance you have something affecting your attunement like shield of crystal on when you leave and off when you arrive?
     
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    no, shield of crystal isn't on all the time when this is happening. The str of earth icon by my name in upper left corner when I teleport......then when I land, it's gone.
     
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    how much time do you have left on it before changing scenes? if it happens to a fresh one, i'd be very surprised.
     
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    I keep noticing this happens to me too. I could not tie it to anything yet. I’ll keep a better eye on it now.
     
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    it might be that there's more than one cause. we'll get the one i described fixed and then try other theories if it keeps happening afterward.
     
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    I've always wondered what caused long duration buffs to sometimes disappear and sometimes not when changing scenes. The recalculation stuff is very interesting and I didn't know that, but I agree that there is almost certainly some other causes of this.

    My normal grind mode is to just take out all my favorite targets and teleport around constantly, and I check my shielding and stat buffs every time because it just seems super random whether or not I still have them in the new scene.
     
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    I know I've had at least 45 mins on it one time.
     
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    About to leave Spectral Mines. I do not change any gear or do anything, other than use a Recall Scroll:
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    Upon arriving home, this is all the current active buffs on me:
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    I cast no spells, did not do anything, other than cast Recall Scroll. I *believe* this still happens just leaving (walking out) of a scene too (I noticed that doing several Overland Encounters).
     
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    I'm glad you got these screen shots..........I thought maybe I was mentally losing it.
     
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    This also happens to Potions. I've started running with all the potions I can since they now last 2 hours, and sometimes I'll just have one or two drop, not all of them.
     
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    Submitted: Issue 68040