About Wintry Bug

I'm trying to comprehend why one of the new AMs decided to call off the use of Wintry Armor on PvP just because there is a bug with the skill.

Other skills have been bugged and never considered to be of bug abuse until they were fixed, for example.

Fear (which was greatly bugged)
Templar (Threatening Taunt)
Break Power (Bugged with Over Power)
Glacial Shard (Bugged with Over Power)
Poison Skills (Rangers and Sins used this while flying pvp to drop your wings)

And some other skills which I can't recall right now.

They were used although it was known that they were bugged yet there was no warning people about not using them.

Wintry Armor's bug lies on the fact that if you use normal attack and you strike by x2, x3, those additional strikes besides the initial strike, should not deal damage back but what bothers me is the fact that first of all, most players do not use normal attack on pvp, everyone uses skills and skill attacks on Wintry appear to be working fine.

Secondly, not too many sorcs use the Wintry Armor tree and now the few out there that do use it, have to switch trees or not use it on PvP because it's considered "Bug Abuse"

I believe that this skill should be allowed on PvP until it's fixed just like every other skill that has been bugged has been allowed.

SAMs will need to excuse me for posting this because I tried to speak to some of them just because I wanted to understand and hope to make a point but my messages were ignored.

Mind you, this is not a QQ thread, I'm just pointing out a fact about skill bugs.

 

Thanks for reporting, but next time please use Official Report Thread.

 

Fear (which was greatly bugged) - not fear that is bugged, geodata problem.
Templar (Threatening Taunt)
Break Power (Bugged with Over Power) - fixed
Glacial Shard (Bugged with Over Power)
Poison Skills (Rangers and Sins used this while flying pvp to drop your wings) - fixed

 

This goes for Lumiel right? (Since I saw you mentioned about stigma build)

I just wonder if this Wintry bug occurs in Siel too D: Never noticed. Sorry if a bit outdated.

 

Which GM prohibited the skill's use in PvP?

 

yep it happens on siel too...

 

AM Vildill

 

didnt noted in siel. maybe the big issues is in lumiel.

 

Whut, we haxorz now if we use wintry ?
FUNFUNFUNFUN

 

You're welcome but it wasn't quite a report since I was told it was already reported to you directly. My concern was with the prohibition of the skill being used during PvP as it is right now.

 

The prohibition of skills is very rarely necessary or enforced, if a skill is broken enough that we have to forbid it in PvP then it is simply disabled.

While GMs can set the rules on their own tournaments within reason that's generally not the sortof thing we would encourage, in world PvP such a ban wouldn't happen - I'm unsure what the case was exactly here.

Regardless of that please do bear in mind that some of our GMs are new, that's why they're trainees, and do sometimes say and do silly things ;p

On the positive side this has brought the matter to evilset's attention so any bugs in Wintry should be ironed out as time permits. Do rest assured however that Wintry Armor is not forbidden in world PvP and we will not ban or jail users for using it.

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