[FIXED] Headhunter no longer gives the player buffs when SRS kill enemies

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GGG_Neon wrote:

• Players once again gain the Mods of indirectly killed rare monsters while using the Headhunter or Inspired Learning uniques. This fixes an unintentional change to this mechanic in the 2.1.0 patch.

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lagwin1980 wrote:

Despite it directly contradicting game mechanics which they fixed it up to(in your case broke it) they reverted the change.

The reason it took so long btw was that they were debating it, they know that unintentional or not that the change fixed the interaction and it was now in line with the monster/kill mechanics already in the game, they didn't answer here because they were serious doubts that it would be reverted back to it's broken state

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Raye wrote:

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Jilvane wrote:

I couldn't agree more. Having monster auras with SRS and even just normal summons was incredibly fun. No reason for GGG to remove this interaction.

No reason to remove it? Other than it going against all other such effects in the game? I may be misreading something here, and I don't own a Headhunter myself, but the text clearly says "When you Kill a Rare monster", doesn't it?
And you never kill anything if you're SRS, any kind summoner, trapper, totemer and so on. Those builds don't get charges, on kill effects from heralds, corrupting blood etc. Why should this be a special case?

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Oxix wrote:

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lagwin1980 wrote:

Despite it directly contradicting game mechanics which they fixed it up to(in your case broke it) they reverted the change.

The reason it took so long btw was that they were debating it, they know that unintentional or not that the change fixed the interaction and it was now in line with the monster/kill mechanics already in the game, they didn't answer here because they were serious doubts that it would be reverted back to it's broken state

think what you want but contrary to what you said (and even if you like it or not) HH was broken and now its fix, just read the patch note to see that it was not intentional ,

and we're all very happy.

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Essentially, someone changed something and the interaction broke.
Problem is, technically it's fixed... But, since it use to be "broken" and people built around this, we're still deciding whether or not it should be reverted or left as is.

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Raye wrote:

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Freedomdeep wrote:

The truth is that your theory is ridiculous.

Sigh... child, it's not my theory, it is stated by GGG themselves. I can show you the exact same videos with charges and totems, minions or whatever else kind of nonplayer killing entity, it always works the same with DoTs. All direct damage attributes kills to whatever did the damage, DoTs don't, they always attributes to the player. Somehow they managed to fix this for HH, but reverted the fix.

They reverted HH back to broken state due excessive whining and that's OK, as Jilvane said it doesn't affect temp leagues much...
But arguing that it's working as intended when it's contradictory to every single other similar effect just shows a complete lack of game mechanics understanding (of course HH is not alone in getting DoT kills for the player, but Dots are broken).

Just try a southbound, assassin's mark or warlords mark and any totem/trap poison setup and see for yourself. Every kill will be from poison DoT and the player will get tons of charges.