Noxious Stings 10% Damage Bug

**Amorise** · 2012-02-11, 08:38 AM

Originally Posted by Herecius

Just did some testing with a guildy and... we did not see the bug. Naked save for a vendor bow, 2/2 noxious stings, only SrS/cobra/auto on 85 target.

Myself alone with the glyph ~515 autoshot damage

Myself alone without it ~515 autoshot damage

Both of us without glyph ~515 autoshot damage

One of us with glyph ~515 autoshot damage

Nothing seemed to really change it.

Either it was stealthily and quickly hotfixed, or there's something I'm missing about how to trigger the bug.

I believe it was hotfixed on the 10th after being brought up a multitude of times on the US bug report forums in the last week. I haven't been able to recreate the bug since then, despite extensively testing it.

**Herecius** · 2012-02-11, 08:40 AM

Originally Posted by Amorise

I believe it was hotfixed on the 10th after being brought up a multitude of times on the US bug report forums in the last week.

That is good to hear. I don't suppose Blizzard made any posts about it?

**Amorise** · 2012-02-11, 08:43 AM

Originally Posted by Herecius

That is good to hear. I don't suppose Blizzard made any posts about it?

Not that I've seen. I'll test it again later today and provide some logs, but I've yet to be able to recreate the bug since the night of the 9th.

Sometimes all it takes is making them aware and potentially gamebreaking bugs like this usually do get squashed quickly after alerting them. See Death Knights and Ebon Plaguebringer having an identical issue to this in Wrath I believe it was.

**eschatological** · 2012-02-11, 09:18 AM

The initial testing I did tonight showed only a difference when both had the arcane shot glyph. That being said, it was 3:30 AM and I'm not entirely sure the fresh 85 hunter I recruited to test with me had any idea what he was doing as survival. An interesting snippet:

(Edit: NVM, discrepancy explained)

**Salvinn** · 2012-02-11, 02:01 PM

Didn't really have time to test anything yesterday, so tried to test it today, but me and the hunter that I discovered the bug with in raids were unable in any way to reproduce the bug on any level. Noxious Stings now seemed to work perfectly for the both of us. *This was obv done naked with same low lvl bow*

**Nikoangel** · 2012-02-11, 02:12 PM

Can someone confirm if this has indeed been hotfixed please? I'm not sure I understand all the ramifications of this, but 10% dps loss rings pretty clear.

**dracco4heads** · 2012-02-11, 02:17 PM

Would explain a lot, i am raiding with another sv hunter, we are equally geared (i have 1Ilvl more than him) we are doing equal dps (within 300 of each other, as good as allways) yet when i check skada/recount/WoL all his abilitys seems to hit quite a bit harder (around 10% infact...)

**Mosphet** · 2012-02-11, 03:04 PM

Can confirm its fixed now for EU, me and Kibu just tried the same tests again, 926 in every situation.

**Flustered** · 2012-02-11, 03:23 PM

Originally Posted by eschatological

I checked his armory, and the only difference in our specs is an additional point he puts into serpent spread, and pet talents in the MM/BM trees, all of which should be irrelevant.

Did you make sure he was in hawk and not fox? >.>

**Nikoangel** · 2012-02-11, 03:58 PM

Originally Posted by Mosphet

Can confirm its fixed now for EU, me and Kibu just tried the same tests again, 926 in every situation.

Thanks Mosphet (amplifier term)?

**shiggityshwat** · 2012-02-11, 05:59 PM

Originally Posted by Flustered

Did you make sure he was in hawk and not fox? >.>

based on the test i did yesterday, he would be doing around 114 damage per hit if he did not have hawk on (no gear/pet/HM.)

**eschatological** · 2012-02-11, 06:57 PM

Originally Posted by Flustered

Did you make sure he was in hawk and not fox? >.>

Actually, I found the discrepancy. I still had a flask on from our raid, and it faded in the 2 seconds between my auto shots, right as he was manually refreshing Serpent Sting. I basically just saw a damage difference and freaked out, lol.

**Drakoes** · 2012-02-11, 10:45 PM

Blizzard promptly fixing a hunter bug... what is this madness?

**Maelstrom51** · 2012-02-12, 01:50 AM

Originally Posted by Drakoes

Blizzard promptly fixing a hunter bug... what is this madness?

Indeed. They usually only fix hunter bugs if they're beneficial to hunters.

**timoseewho** · 2012-02-12, 04:31 AM

Did Blizzard say anything about this?

**Arkets** · 2012-02-12, 01:30 PM

Originally Posted by Maelstrom51

Indeed. They usually only fix hunter bugs if they're beneficial to hunters.

4 the one who have got thee glyph :>

**sepulturaa** · 2012-02-13, 01:41 PM

Strange how official foruns dont have posts about this. But im a litle worried now cause i got another hunter in my raid.

**Speedlance** · 2012-02-13, 02:59 PM

<---> dumbass alert <---> PLEASE IGNORE THIS REPLY!

**JonBeMerkin** · 2012-02-13, 04:26 PM

Shit now i have to open a ticket and get my hunter back...

**WillFeral** · 2012-02-13, 10:12 PM

I wish Blizzard would actually let their customers know if indeed this was a bug and if it's been fixed.Guess that's asking too much.

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