[Bug?] Extreme damage dealt by Voidscream and related shriekers
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tl;dr: Voidscream damage may scale/interact unexpectedly in combination with Catarina quest.
Voidscream, the new Mines boss, AND each member of Voidscream's shrieker pack can do more than 500 damage with a single attack to capped resistance characters on Normal difficulty. I suspect this may be unintended. The player character used was a L36 templar with capped lightning resists (75% (103%)), 41 shield and 663 health. A contributing factor may be that a "Find, revive, kill" quest was started in Mines 2 by interacting with Catarina near the start of the level, and Voidscream was located near one of the Catarina objectives. Other monster packs near Catarina's job objections were noted as hitting the player character much harder than other packs around the level, to specifically include other non-Voidscream shrieker packs. The number provided by /bug is 2,918,294,655. |
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600hp in act IV is nothing, i try to have around 1,500 life by then. 500 damage hits arent unusual for act IV.
Last edited by geek_bait#5182 on Jul 31, 2015, 5:24:01 AM
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Yea, you need at least 1200 hp for act4, and I'd say 1500 for Malachai if you want to be safe
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Happened to me as well, no Catarina involved. Capped lightning resistance. Normal difficulty.
Voidscream and his pack seem to deal way more damage than anything else I've seen in Act 4 Normal. I'm talking comparable damage to facetanking Voll's or Dominus' telegraphed ground slams, except on every attack from the pack. I've played through Act 4 multiple times now, in both solo and party play. This is the first time I've seen Voidscream since, y'know, he just got re-enabled today in the 2.0.1 patch. He just killed my level 39 character about the same amount of times that I died when first killing Malachai (before he got nerfed in Normal). Out of curiosity @Zybeline2 and @geek_bait: have you tried to check Normal Voidscream yourself yet? |
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I returned to normal Mines 2 with a L47 skellimanc- I mean zombiwitch, and let the zombies slowly eat the brains of everything on the floor. I didn't see their health bars budge off of full green except for one single monster pack. That pack was Voidscream's, and my zombies didn't stand a chance. A pack of six buffed zombies and a fire golem were totally destroyed by Voidscream's pack minions; the zombie pack managed to eat one or two shriekers before they all died. Re-died. Stopped moving.
Each shrieker from Voidscream's pack does damage comparable to Voidscream itself. The new Voidscream is basically a surprise endgame bossfight right in the middle of Mines 2. Methinks some melee hardcore character players are going to be pretty cranky pretty quick. If that level of difficulty spike is intended, it's one hell of a mean surprise. Last edited by Mucket#5286 on Jul 31, 2015, 12:08:23 PM
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Last edited by Flachzang#2404 on Jul 31, 2015, 5:54:50 PM
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" i havent faced him in normal, but he did nothing to me in cruel. |
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