[Fix Needs Testing 69744] Tamed Wyvern issues

1. Title: Tamed Wyverns have many issues: Attacking slowly and nonscaling poison
   
2. Reproduction Rate: 100%
3. Blocker: No
   
4. Details: A tamed wyvern attacks incredibly slowly, often taking 6-8 seconds for it to attack again in contrast to every other pet in the game. Additionally, it's poison damage/debuff does not scale as is capped at 2-5 damage with a duration of 5 seconds whilst the strength debuff is only -10 for a nice duration of 30 seconds.
   
5. Steps to Reproduce: Step 1: Log into the game. Step 2: Enter a location where you can summon a tamed wyvern. Step 3: Summon the wyvern pet.. Step 4: Order the Wyvern to attack a target. Step 5: Observe the long time between wyvern attacks and the nonscaling poison damage and effects.
   
6. User Specs: PC running Windows 10, 64 bit OS, Game Release 93

 

1. Title: Tamed Wyverns have many issues: Attacking slowly and nonscaling poison
   
2. Reproduction Rate: 100%
3. Blocker: No
   
4. Details: A tamed wyvern attacks incredibly slowly, often taking 6-8 seconds for it to attack again in contrast to every other pet in the game. Additionally, it's poison damage/debuff does not scale as is capped at 2-5 damage with a duration of 5 seconds whilst the strength debuff is only -10 for a nice duration of 30 seconds. Additionally, the Ferocious wyverns have worse stats than tamed destroyers, despite having a Summoning level requirement 10 levels higher.
   
5. Steps to Reproduce: Step 1: Log into the game. Step 2: Enter a location where you can summon a tamed wyvern. Step 3: Summon the wyvern pet.. Step 4: Order the Wyvern to attack a target. Step 5: Observe the long time between wyvern attacks and the nonscaling poison damage and effects. Step 6: Summon a Destroyer, Mutilator, or Red Snarler and have it attack the target instead. Observe how much better it is than a wyvern.
   
6. User Specs: PC running Windows 10, 64 bit OS, Game Release 94

This is still a huge problem for wyverns, especially with the new release and the "ferocious" wyverns becoming tameable.

 

I compared a level 79 purple wyvern and a level 79 darkstarr corpion. The wyvern definitely seems to attack much slower compared to the corpion.

I can't speak to the poison not scaling, so when a dev. reviews this bug for the attack speed issue, hopefully they can also take a look at that.

Marking this verified.

 

For the poison scaling, I'd recommend testing a Fero Red Spider or Fero Red Arachnid in comparison to the corpion and wyvern. Their poison goes up as you level taming.

 

Submitted: Issue 69744

 

patch pending

https://twitter.com/catnipgames/status/1453044373550243841

Shroud of the Avatar @catnipgames
Replying to @GarrittG
1:02 PM · Oct 26, 2021
It was 3.5 seconds per attack. Dropped it to be a bit slower than wolves. Try out the new guys on QA this evening. Working on getting it published shortly.

 

Tested on QA with build 1274:

Wyvern is still visually attacking slowly, approx. once every 5 seconds.


Here are DPS numbers from 4 pets, taken across approx. 2 minutes :






Here are stats from the same tamed creatures, taken over a 2 minute interval (approx):



L. 79 Wyvern total damage : 1,214
L. 79 Ferocious Polar Bear total damage: 4,473
L. 89 Nightmare total damage: 3,870
L. 89 Darkstarr Destroyer total damage: 4,383

 

fix needs testing as of 1458

 

Wyverns still attacks incredibly slowly, with a long time between each attack.

Wyvern movement speed and response to commands/enemies is much faster.

Poison damage is scaling, however the strength debuff and the duration of both are not scaling at all. The wyvern seems to be more inclined to use the poison attack though.

 

@thesometimeslurker, can you test again? chris said he changed the wyvern this release. it should still be hitting slowly, but it should be hitting hard enough to compensate for it.