Rain spells counting players pets as a NPC and wasting damage
 

Rain spells are counting players pets as a NPC and wasting damage. The damage from a wave that should have gone to hitting a NPC just returns a resisted.

For those that don't know how rains work, they do different things depending on how many NPCs are in the area where the rain waves are hitting.

Rain spells do X damage per wave within the spells targeted AE radius.

When cast on a NPC the following damage should be dealt:

1 NPC - It gets hit by 3 waves of X damage.
2 NPCs - Each gets hit by 2 waves of X damage.
3 NPCs - 3 get hit for X damage once, the targeted NPC gets an additional X damage.
4 NPCs - 4 get hit with X damage once.
5+ NPCs - Target + 3 random (or closest to targeted NPC - not sure) get hit for X damage once.

Pets counting as NPC severely degrades these spells effectiveness.

I love rains. I use them as a 1-2 punch again healers. They're more mana efficient against 2+ mobs (assuming you won't pull agro) and they seem to agro less compared to a single DD doing comparable damage.


Not sure if this has been brought up yet. Tried doing a search, but didn't see anything about it in the dozens of posts.

It worked like this until Velious, afaik.

Wow...talk about retarded. You sure that's not just a bug fix from a previously introduced bug?

If not, you guys don't have to duplicate obvious bugs.

I remember Verant being slow at fixing stuff, but god, 2 years after release, damn.

I suppose rains were such a minor issue, it kept getting low priority.

I didn't have experience with them at the time as I played on VZ in a cross team guild, so raining NPCs was sorta out of the question.

Thank you for finally giving me enough reason to get your trolling ass the hell up off our forums.