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85: Contact Ability

Hola,

Not sure if this is an isolated issue, or just the way it works .. but figured I'd ask/point it out.

Seems on spells, a spell effect of '85: Contact Ability' the spell you want it to proc you have to put the spell ID - 1(minus 1, i.e. if spell I want it to proc is 9000 I'd put 8999), struggled with this for awhile and couldn't figure out for the life of me why I couldn't get it to work.

Finally started looking at similar spells and noticed that all the other shadowknight shroud spells use the spell ID - 1 and it works correctly in game.

Any reasoning for this? Is this issue isolated to me?

Sometimes SoE's reasoning is easy to figure out, sometimes its not.

Gotta love procs for Shadowknights.

Code:

//for some stupid reason SK procs return theirs one base off...

uint16 Mob::GetProcID(uint16 spell_id, uint8 effect_index)

{

        bool sk = false;

        bool other = false;

        for(int x = 0; x < 16; x++)

        {

                if(x == 4)

                {

                        if(spells[spell_id].classes[4] < 255)

                                sk = true;

                }

                else

                {

                        if(spells[spell_id].classes[x] < 255)

                                other = true;

                }

        }



        if(sk && !other)

        {

                return(spells[spell_id].base[effect_index] + 1);

        }

        else

        {

                return(spells[spell_id].base[effect_index]);

        }

}

Seems like you could work around it by setting another class to something like 254. They wouldn't be able to use the spell, but it would skip the +1 nonsense since it doesn't happen for mixed class spells.

Lol, I was mostly wondering if it's something borked on my end.

That's funny though, weird!

Well, now I know - and others can search for this easily too and know!