Animist AOE on shrooms ignores LOS

Started 13 Apr 2020
by Strikejk
in Resolved Issues
The casted AOE on shrooms by animists ignore LOS and go through doors and walls. This was not the case after the big AOE damage LOS nerf to Animist and Necros but for some reason works again for Animist. Dozens of Animists abuse this every day for months now, this needs to be fixed urgently as it is impossible to defend against hib in any structure as they can lockdown entire keeps with a few animists abusing this.

Example video: https://youtu.be/UioHT3arz3A

Issue Timeline

13 Apr 2020 Strikejk created this issue
21 Apr 2020 Uthred triaged this issue
21 Apr 2020 Uthred changed the status of this issue from new to open
13 Aug 2020 gruenesschaf assigned this issue from Nobody to gruenesschaf
13 Aug 2020 gruenesschaf changed the status of this issue from in_progress to resolved
Mon 11 May 2020 11:32 AM by Strikejk
Update:

Animist place their main shroom next to walls/doors/whatever they want to nuke through.
They then cast their AoE spell on the main shroom
The spell is:
Verdant Path Spec
Turret PBAoE (AoE, Pet)

This AoE spell, unlike all other AoE's in the game ignores LoS to the target and walls/doors/structures of any kind. Basically you can nuke this AoE through anything. This is clearly a bug as all other AoE's from players and pets in this game can not be nuked through solid walls.
Mon 11 May 2020 11:33 AM by Strikejk
Better video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CA375un25A
Tue 7 Jul 2020 10:04 AM by Strikejk
Verdan't AoE still ignores LOS, even after the recent pet-los and range patch.
Sat 25 Jul 2020 2:22 PM by Seelixh
If they can't fix that problem, they should enable this 'feature' to ALL classes with AoE.
Or just ban them for some days so they wont do it anymore... ó<
Sun 26 Jul 2020 2:11 AM by gruenesschaf
Next update should fix this.

The pet pbae implementation is super weird, instead of going the sane way and just having it behave exactly the same as the necro, ie a spell when executed queues an instant pbae spell with the pet, it is its own thing entirely which made it slip through a couple los checks due to the target being the pet etc.

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