Beguiler Soul Whip not dealing Full Damage vs. Sneak Attack Targets

[ZookCloak]

Description:

Mindstalker (Beguiler Cipher + Debonaire Rogue) attacks a target afflicted with charm via Whisper of Treason. Sneak Attack's +30% damage successfully applies, since the target was affected by the charm affliction, but Soul Whip only applies its +10% damage, instead of the +20% that Beguilers should deal when attacking Sneak Attack-able targets.

 

Steps to Reproduce the Issue:

1. Afflict an enemy with Whispers of Treason on a Beguiler/Debonaire Mindstalker

2. Crit the charmed target with a basic attack

3. Confirm that Sneak Attack applied, since the target was afflicted by a mind affliction (charm) for +30%

4. Confirm that, despite the target being sneak attacked, Soul Whip only applied a +10% damage bonus

 

Attached screenshot shows damage applied by Soul Whip only applied +10%, despite Sneak Attack also being present on the attack at +30%.

 

 

[thelee]

note: devs ain't coming back to check on bugs, it's just us here.

 

uh oh - have you done this on a plain beguiler? has this always been bugged and we've never noticed?

[ZookCloak]

So after more testing, it seems like Beguilers erroneously suffer from reduced Soul Whip damage when the Sneak Attack is being granted by either:

- An attack out of stealth or invisibility

or

- When the affliction "activating" Sneak Attack is a Charm Spell, making the victim a friendly target

 

That's a shame to hear about the devs. Is PoE 2 effectively no longer supported by Obsidian?

[thelee]

On 5/27/2020 at 2:43 PM, ZookCloak said:

That's a shame to hear about the devs. Is PoE 2 effectively no longer supported by Obsidian?

sorry for late response - but yeah, 5.0 was their last hurrah. they said they'd only be back for critical bugs, but i don't know what would qualify as "critical" (II had issues with macOS and catalina and got no response and had to figure something out myself).