[Fixed] Bolster Balance skill and most? others persist across gear swaps

02/21/2021 17:53
Title: Bolster Balance skill effect can be used without a shield
Reproduction Rate: 100%
Blocker?
Details: When you have a shield equipped and the skill bolster balance on a combat deck, you can then use a stack of bolster balance and them equip a 2 handed weapon and the bolster balance skill effect is still present. This is a shield specific skill.



Steps to Reproduce: Have a deck with a 1 handed weapon and a shield with the bolster balance skill in it and a deck with a 2 handed weapon. Equip the 1 handed weapon with shield deck and use a stack of bolster balance. Equip the 2 handed weapon deck. Observe the shield skill bolster balance is still present while having no shield equipped.
User Specs:
OS: Windows 10 (10.0.0) 64bit
CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-1620 0 @ 3.60GHz (8) System RAM: 16303
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 GPU RAM: 8079
SotA.Win.64.1345.Date.02.10.21
Area: PlayerDungeon_GreenBrickFoyer_3Connections
Area Display Name: Player Dungeon
Loc: (0.5, 0.0, -0.7)
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@Anpu Can you think of other skills dependent on equipped gear that DO remove the effects when changing a deck? I kinda just think is how skills work.. example, I just used dodge (light armor) and then removed the chest piece and equipped plate armor and the buff stayed.

 

Ignite Weapon will be removed when you switch to another weapon.

 

Interesting.. maybe a holdover from before it worked on bows? If that’s the only one that doesn’t work like the others maybe having ignite weapon remain is the easiest change for consistency ? I’m going to move this to feedback to spark discussion and see what opinions are out there. I’m a big fan of consistent behavior across the board personally.

 

Ok if it’s not a bug then cool. This will be very handy!

 

Chris just fixed this for an upcoming patch. Thanks for the heads up, Anpu

 

@Elgarion I'll move this back to Combat Bugs - do you have a JIRA #?
@Anpu Didn't mean to imply it wasn't a bug, just wanted to get feedback and discussion since I saw this was more of systemic behavior across all skills.

Some examples from other skills I was able to verify persist when the gear is removed or swapped:

Light Armor: Dodge, Evasion, Sprint, Flurry
Heavy Armor: Glancing Blow, Inner Strength, Absorb Impacts
Shield: Deflect, Dig In

 

I don't see a JIRA on it. Looks like Chris just knocked it out on the fly. JIRA# SOTA-CHRIS maybe?