So... Ball of Lightning counts as a sorc pet for Expert Summoner passive...

HoloYoitsu · March 22

I'ma guess no one noticed since no one uses BoL anymore. I don't see how in the world this can be intended:

- Every time you blink, boom, your stats flip for the 3 sec the ball of light is there (though they don't update on the UI unless you bar swap).
- Also means your hardened ward wont heal you while you're blinking.

Definitely some spaghetti code going on here.

IncultaWolf · March 22

Wow... nobody found out until just now because nobody uses that skill ever since it got nerfed.

Alpheu5 · March 26

Just came on here to see if anyone else has reported this cause it's the first time I noticed it since the Expert Summoner change. I checked and it procs Necropotence too so who knows how long it's been considered a pet.

DanteTheDeviant · March 26

Lmao another reason to not use that morph as now it'll drop your HP by 10% putting you in execute thresholds. That's just awesome xD

Bergzorn · March 26

The ball counting as pet is how it worked for as long as I can remember. Certainly annoying, but not a bug.

SkaraMinoc · March 26

The boost to shields is nice thanks to the max health increase from Ball Lightning. Not every build uses Streak. Some very good Stam Sorc builds use Ball Lightning and get their stun elsewhere.

Alpheu5 · March 26

Bergzorn wrote: »

The ball counting as pet is how it worked for as long as I can remember. Certainly annoying, but not a bug.

There's no indication anywhere that it would be considered a pet in the tooltip, though. It's an immobile particle effect that has a shorter lifespan than Burning, and before this patch interacted with none of the sorc passives and affected a single pet set which you wouldn't even notice in the limited window because you'd be running an actual pet already.

HoloYoitsu · March 29

SkaraMinoc wrote: »

The boost to shields is nice thanks to the max health increase from Ball Lightning. Not every build uses Streak. Some very good Stam Sorc builds use Ball Lightning and get their stun elsewhere.

Mh, if you were already optimizing your health/mag to maximize shield size, then when the ball of light is out and you lose 10% mag/stam -> 10% hp, then your shield sizes aren't getting boosted, they're getting lowered. Which is then further compounded by NOT GETTING THE HEAL FROM HARDNDED WARD, since the ball is a 'pet'.

TheTruestKing · March 30

HoloYoitsu wrote: »

SkaraMinoc wrote: »

The boost to shields is nice thanks to the max health increase from Ball Lightning. Not every build uses Streak. Some very good Stam Sorc builds use Ball Lightning and get their stun elsewhere.

Mh, if you were already optimizing your health/mag to maximize shield size, then when the ball of light is out and you lose 10% mag/stam -> 10% hp, then your shield sizes aren't getting boosted, they're getting lowered. Which is then further compounded by NOT GETTING THE HEAL FROM HARDNDED WARD, since the ball is a 'pet'.

Yeah it's a very weird interaction. It doesn't have any actions that pets do. It doesn't move, deal damage, or have a health bar. Every pet in the game has one of these three mechanics. Even proc set pets.

Lortie · March 30

Wow this is a pretty bad bug imo. No hardened ward heal or 10% max mag if you use morph that never counted as a pet in the first place.