85: Contact Ability

[Esildor]

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?

[demonstar55]

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

[lerxst2112]

Gotta love procs for Shadowknights.

//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.

[Esildor]

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!