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Figured Out A Combo

Discussion in 'EverQuest II General Discussion' started by Gaealiege, Jan 16, 2017.

  1. Gaealiege

    Gaealiege Member

    No clue what it actually does, but the combo is using Virulent Outbreak, followed immediately by Etherflash. You will receive a message that states Ethershadow Assassin gets a surge of power.

    We tried again using Assassin after the message and it didn't appear to do anything.

    After analyzing parses, my group could not determine what it did.

    Our assumption is that it's broken and had absolutely no effect.
     
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  2. Errrorr

    Errrorr Active Member

    [​IMG]

    Guildy found this last week, no idea what it actually did as it was the Thursday we got kicked from zone every time we pulled a named.
     
  3. Gaealiege

    Gaealiege Member

    Any idea which combo led to that triggering?
     
  4. Errrorr

    Errrorr Active Member

    Unfortunately was hard to work out as our server crashed about 20s later.

    Looking back through ACT, the following were cast in the 2s before the Elementalist got the combo above.

    :14 Virulent Outbreak
    :14 Levinbolt
    :16 Scorched Earth

    :18 Mudslide
    :18 Ethershadow Assassin
    :20 Wildfire

    And looking through logs, I think it may be Virulent Outbreak followed by Levinbolt = Brittle Armour.
     
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  5. Gaealiege

    Gaealiege Member

    Excellent! Thanks for checking back through your logs. If we find anymore combos, I'll post them.
     
  6. Errrorr

    Errrorr Active Member

    Other stuff I found checking some logs. Not sure if the top line of each relates, but it was present in each test.


    [22:01:59 2017] Dirge (Etherealist) triggers Arcane Trickery.
    [22:01:59 2017] YOUR Virulent Outbreak hits Chel'Drak the Ancient Lord for a critical of 589325468 disease damage.
    [22:01:59 2017] Your Virulent Outbreak surges with power.

    Was an Etherflash cast at 22:01:54, but not by the same Dirge above. Perhaps Ethreal Conduit?

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    [21:56:17 2017] Mystic (Etherealist) Etherflash multi attacks Chel'Drak the Ancient Lord for a critical of 335982948 magic damage.
    [21:56:21 2017] Mystic (Etherealist) turns an invisible sphere between Her hands.
    [21:56:21 2017] YOUR Virulent Outbreak hits Chel'Drak the Ancient Lord for a critical of 732365970 disease damage.
    [21:56:21 2017] Your Virulent Outbreak surges with power.

    Confirmed - Etherflash followed by Virulent = Virulent Outbreak surges with power.

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    [22:10:58 2017] Coercer's (Thaumaturgist) Virulent Outbreak hits training dummy for a Legendary critical of 991421735 disease damage.
    [22:11:05 2017] A fierce look of concentration crosses Coercer's (Thaumaturgist) face.
    [22:11:05 2017] YOUR Etherflash hits training dummy for a Legendary critical of 649895285 magic damage.
    [22:11:05 2017] Your Ethershadow Assassin surges with power.

    The one posted in OP.
     
    Last edited: Jan 18, 2017
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  7. Errrorr

    Errrorr Active Member

    Caith-Today at 4:36 PM
    Etherflash is reporting that Ethershadow assasin surges, instead of itself. It's just a text thing.


    Caith-Today at 4:51 PM

    When the triggering ability hits it applies the combo effect and removes the combo flag. If lag causes that to happen out of order, it would never apply the combo effect.
     
    Last edited: Jan 19, 2017
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  8. Errrorr

    Errrorr Active Member

    Virulent Outbreak -> Etherflash = Etherflash Combo
    Etherflash -> Virulent = Virulent Combo
    Ethershadow Assassin -> Brittle Armour = Brittle Armour Combo
    Glacial Freeze -> Septic Strike = Septic Strike Combo.
    Stonehammer + Blood Contract = Blood Contract Combo
     
    Last edited: Jan 26, 2017
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  9. Gaealiege

    Gaealiege Member

    Awesome! Thank you for finding all that information/chatting with Caith!

    Could you tell a major difference in parsing when doing these combos? We couldn't.
     
  10. Errrorr

    Errrorr Active Member

    As per Caith's 2nd statement, it appears the combo is applying after the ability has already hit, and as such you gain no benefit. I believe he said he's fixed it though, so next hotfix hopefully.
     
  11. Gaealiege

    Gaealiege Member

    Ahhhh. So it is indeed broken. Thanks again!
     
  12. Errrorr

    Errrorr Active Member

    Glacial Freeze -> Septic Strike = Septic Strike Combo.

    Credit to Luciar for finding.
     
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  13. Luciar

    Luciar New Member

    These two are tested to be bidirectional:

    (Glacial Freeze surges) <-- Glacial Freeze < -- > Septic Strike --> (Septic Strike surges)
    (Etherflash surges*) <-- Etherflash < -- > Virulent Outbreak --> (Virulent Outbreak surges)

    *There is a display error falsely stating Ethershadow Assassin surges, instead of Etherflash as of 1/21.


    Confirmed that you can chain combos:
    e.g.:
    Septic Strike --> Glacial Freeze --> Septic Strike
    Both Glacial Freeze and the second Septic Strike will surge

    ACT Trigger on combo:
    <Trigger R="Your (?&lt;ascspell&gt;.+) surges with power." SD="${ascspell} combo triggered" ST="3" CR="F" C="General" T="F" TN="" Ta="F" />
     
    Last edited: Jan 21, 2017
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  14. Uyaem

    Uyaem Member

    So you've triggered some chat text... :D
    But what does it do?
     
  15. Gaealiege

    Gaealiege Member

    They're broken at the moment, Uyaem. They do absolutely nothing as far as I can tell!

    It's incredibly handy info that you can chain the combo though. We didn't think to try this.
     
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  16. Luciar

    Luciar New Member

    Correct! Right now the focus is on discovering the combos, so once the combo effects starts applying correctly we'll know how to trigger them!
     
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  17. Anaogi

    Anaogi Active Member

    I can also confirm that Thermal Depletion -> Virulent Outbreak is a combo...
     
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  18. Bawkan

    Bawkan New Member

    Stonehammer + Blood Contract confirmed combo
     
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  19. Anaogi

    Anaogi Active Member

    Has anyone tested a hypothetical Thermal Depletion - Virulent Outbreak - Etherflash combo yet?
     
  20. Raenius

    Raenius New Member

    What if: you have to do combos first in order to have two different ones to surge and then use those two surging ones in a row in order to react with each other?

    So a surging ability has to be followed by another surging one.
     

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