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Warlock General Skill Saces's Scorn Fear Bugged

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Friday, April 19th 2013, 4:39pm

Warlock General Skill Saces's Scorn Fear Bugged

The fear effect on the warlock general skill Saces's Scorn is bugged in that it breaks whenever the target takes damage. It is likely that this is in fact a bug and not intentional because other fear effects in the game, such as the warrior skill Terror, upgraded flame towers in siege, and bears in Grafu Castle, do not break when damage is received. I can confirm that the skill is indeed a fear effect, and not some pseudo fear effect such as Nightmare Androlier's Deadly Nightmare, because it can be removed and prevented by the rogue/knight elite skill Courageous Guard, which removes fear effects but only if they are flagged as such. Additionally, there is precedent that fear skills being broken by damage is not intended behavior, as evidenced by the patch to make Terror unable to be broken by damage. Thus, it seems Saces's Scorn is indeed bugged.
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Friday, April 19th 2013, 5:17pm

From my experience, thats how a player based fear is designed to work. On my old Warrior there's a skill named "Terror" It breaks Fear upon Damage. On Priest/Mage, Freeze breaks upon being hit as well (not a fear but still a player based root). Im sure there's a couple more that do that as well beyond my knowlege. Its based on the toons kit, kit meaning it fits their role. If every root in the game were a mage's Lighting.. then Lightning wouldn't be very useful in that reality or rewarding for that class. If Lightning is Designed for a mage to root a target so that target doesn't move while the mage summons a 3 second cast (Flame), or if a Shadow Prison is designed for a rogue to easily get behind a target for blind stab, then Saces's Scorn has a role for how its designed.

In my experience, in a PVP sw situation, i find it useful to cast it upon that Healer while the group you're with downs the dps first. Also very useful in escaping/tactical retreat. its just part of the locks nature as a "Support" as its classified to be by most.

But i do not believe Sace's Scorn is bugged
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Friday, April 19th 2013, 7:43pm

The thing is, I feel Terror is the most comparable skill to Saces's Scorn in this regard, since it is the only other player fear skill I'm aware of. I was in agreement with your line of thinking until http://forum.us.runesofmagic.com/showthread.php?t=79069 changed Terror so the effect did not break upon receiving damage. This leads me to believe that player fear skills are not in fact intended to be broken by damage, thus making the fact that Saces's Scorn's damage IS broken by damage a bug, as outlined in my previous post.
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