5.3 Holy Prism aggro "fix" - what the hell.

[Thiron]

Some people might already know it, but Holy Prism has one curious bug. When used on friendly target - 1 target heal 5 target damage - the damaging part of it doesn't put you in combat, doesn't aggro, doesn't make guards attack you if you damage opposite faction player (Ok, I admit, I killed a few lowbies in Gatgetzan, I'm a bad paladin).

In 5.3, I noticed that Holy Prism had some change in it's pulling power. Oh, did the bug get fixed, I thought?
No, the old bug is still here. Instead of a fix, we got a new bug.

The new bug appears when you use Holy Prism in other way, as 1 target damage 5 target heal. It pulls...everything that's near the primary target. It aggroes neutral mobs. It puts you in combat with critters. It makes the guards think that you've made a PvP attack if there's a member of opposite faction standing nearby...

I loved using it as 40y pull skill, since other tank ranged skills are 30y, but now I risk pulling stuff I don't want.

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Something's certainly up with it. When I use it on heroic consorts I invariably manage to get 2 stacks of corrupted healing lol. Tis a funny old spell. Quite like the quaintness though, far less boring than LH

[Nairobi]

Yeah the "nuke dmg" version that "aggros every bear" caught me by surprise last week. Odd bug is odd.

in4b "pet battle spectating broke our game, blizz y u no work on real things?!!1"

[Deleted]

Ugh, this is confusing. I've only just started using Holy Prism, on Nairobi's recommendation. So if I understand it right:

Target yourself - if you want a big solo heal; if you want AOE damage

Target a mob - if you want a big solo hit; if you want a group heal; if you want threat;

It's not exactly intuitive.

[mmmmmmmBacon]

Ugh, this is confusing. I've only just started using Holy Prism, on Nairobi's recommendation. So if I understand it right:

Target yourself - if you want a big solo heal; if you want AOE damage

Target a mob - if you want a big solo hit; if you want a group heal; if you want threat;

It's not exactly intuitive.

what's so confusing about that? cast it on an enemy, it heals 5 nearby players. cast it on a friendly, it damages 5 nearby enemies.

---------- Post added 2013-05-31 at 01:13 AM ----------

Some people might already know it, but Holy Prism has one curious bug. When used on friendly target - 1 target heal 5 target damage - the damaging part of it doesn't put you in combat, doesn't aggro, doesn't make guards attack you if you damage opposite faction player (Ok, I admit, I killed a few lowbies in Gatgetzan, I'm a bad paladin).

Its good to be bad. Just enjoyed taking of advantage of this in gadgetzan myself

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what's so confusing about that?

The bit where if you want threat (typically picking up adds) you don't choose the AOE damage option.