Serafen's Teamkill damage is seriously out-of-whack at lvl 19/20 (As in; Insta-kill grazes)

[Hassat Hunter]

So suddenly after reaching level 19, I had cases of teammates mysteriously DYING on me or auto-pausing since "extreme low health" even when the enemy was very very very VERY far away.

Turned out it was Serafen, doing overly extreme amounts of damage to my team due to his Wild Mind ability. I don't think it should really do 300(!!!) damage on a graze though. That's just INSANE.

 

Level 19;

 

Level 20 (got the +5 power levels at his level up, might account for some of that insane spike);

 

Edited August 3, 2018 by Hassat Hunter

[Hassat Hunter]

A second encounter, the damage reported should have insta-killed Serafen, but for some reason it did around 10% of the reported value...

 

 

 

[Hassat Hunter]

Then we've got a third encounter, where the damage basically matches the outcome, and isn't full insane. Does anyone have any clue what the hell is going on here with this stuff?

 

 

 

[unoimalltht]

Looks like the Miscast AOE is set to not graze, maybe you have an effect that's preventing it from missing and the UI is showing it wrong?

 

The damage amount is 3x the amount of Focus Serapen has on spell cast, which explains the sometimes extremely high values (especially in your 315 example), but it's adjusted by Shock resistance, which might explain the difference between shown and actual damage.

[Hassat Hunter]

As far as I know nobody on my team has any shock-resistance at all. Not that that's showing anywhere on the UI, but I do not use gear or perks that decrease shock damage.

 

154 > 40 and 200 > 50 would be a 75% decrease in the second post for both me and Sarafen. Really sure I don't got that much resistance unless it's that massive a boost hidden on something,

[Hassat Hunter]

Checked my save made around said spot, exactly 0 shock resistance at all on either.

[Hassat Hunter]

Once again Serafen wiped everyone (during a dragonfight to boot ffs) insta-killing Aloth and Xoti, yet somehow surviving 400 damage (out of his 200 pool) himself.

 

Seems I found the cause though; Reforge the Flesh from "The Maker's Own Power" Belt.

Now to see why the player character cheats death, unless the only reason for that is somehow the effect also applied to both users somehow (not intended).

 

Damage still seems way too much though. Can't imagine being a pleasant surprise "lol, everyone dies by Serafen!" if you played Iron Man mode.

Edited August 5, 2018 by Hassat Hunter

[rasmakisnandar]

On low level "Wild Mind" can deal high damage to allies.

I start to suspect something wrong with serefen, his blunderbuss burn powder often kill my party, while damage to enemies just low :/

[mosspit]

It happened to me on an Trial of Iron playthrough, where Serafen quite literally killed everyone except Eder (300-400dmg). Eder survived only because Wild Mind completely missed him. Luckily he was tanky enough to handle the encounter alone. But after that, I only have him cast Cipher spells far away from the party.

 

Also will never include Serafen as a Cipher in future Trial of Iron playthroughs.

Edited August 5, 2018 by mosspit

[thundercleese]

Yeah the good surges are pathetic and the bad ones just make you wanna cry. Got two in a row in this fight (level 15) - first he made all the enemies invisible, then this: