[bug] Soothing rain causes damage

The soothing rain spell in the water magic tree periodically causes damage to me. There is nothing in the tooltip indicating this possibility. I can provide a screenshot if necessary.

 

All heal over time spells have been reported as randomly causing damage across multiple releases now, but no bug ID has been assigned. If you can find a way to solidly reproduce this issue, it would be most helpful, @Mishikal. This problem was last reported to the team on 1/10/2017 here: https://www.shroudoftheavatar.com/f...ace-doing-damage-to-target.76433/#post-738820

 

What I did was target a practice dummy and simply cast it repeatedly. It would randomly cause damage. Eventually it stopped working entirely -- No healing or damage at all. It simply did nothing, even though my HPs were taken down to 381/422 or so. It seemed to get worse as Celestial Blessing increased (which I was training at the same time).

 

See how soothing rain has been increasing levels constantly, but is not actually doing *any* heals.

 

Here's two pics of where I took damage while leveling up.

 

For the soothing rain case, it seems specifically tied to shield of ice. If I have shield of ice up, I either take damage or do not get healed at all. If I switch to shield of crystal, I start getting healed again. Hope that helps.

 

Yes, I propose a new combo... shield of ice + soothing rain = damaging deluge

 

One other tidbit... The damage you take in this way cannot be recovered (healed) unless you leave the scene. It may explain why some people are finding their health bar won't fill.

 

Easy answer, this is related to the HP-cap display bug. You are not actually wounded. It is just a local client display issue.

This is one way it happens. Sometimes when your HP buff (or str) fades while a HoT is active, it says the HoT dealt damage to you.

These things have been known for months..... I don't feel like digging up an old report...