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I'm really getting fed up with the AoE bug.

For those of you who don't know, it's a bug that takes an AoE attackand focusses it on one person. This means that if you have 10 things engaged in melee with a target, and it does an AoE attack on that group, there's a possibility that all 10 of those attacks will only hit one person in that group. Since it's mostly the big creatures that do these kinds of attacks (Enraged Rancors comes to mind), that's about 300-400 damage per hit, meaning about 3000-4000 pts of damage to a single person in the attacking group from a single attack.

The Pistoleer forum noted this bug a long time ago, when some pistoleers noticed that Fan Shot was occasionally hitting a single target for ultra-mega damage, rather than the group of them. Now it's starting to show up in PvE from larger mobs that have an AoE.

You can see it in action once I get home to post screenshots of it.

Last night while hunting with a large group on Dath, I was hit by it no less than 8 times in a 2 hr period. So it's not all that rare, either. And I noticed pets and other meleers were being hit occasionally by it too (you could tell becuase the combat spam shows the mob hitting a single target 10 times in a row).

What can we do about this? Can this be brought to the attention of the devs through our various melee correspondents (if so, GREAT) Now that SWG Discussion is closed, there's no way to cross-server/profession talk about this issue, so I'm posting it here.

Screenshots of this bug (check out the combat spam in the lower right corner):

This took me down from the fully buffed and powerboosted status of around 3k ham to zilch, both times.

Message Edited by Laeren on 03-03-2004 09:58 AM

/agree, the AOE bug is not fun when it strikes. One time a tusken carnagechampion useadvanced strafe, and I took all10+ hits. I totaled up the damage and it wasover 40000

maybe you should post this in the new core system board. it is a very yucky thing, i've also had it happen to me when tuskens use straffe 2.

I had a nightsister use a force power on me that took all 3 of my ham pools to 0 instantly...I think it was this same bug because the same attack was used on each of my pools twice in a row and all three pools were hit. Hard to say for sure though.

The attack name was funny, something like "death carnage of dark obliteration".