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Secrets

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Re: Whats with buff timers??

« Reply #15 on: September 28, 2010, 03:54:05 pm »

It's related to focusing duration timers, the amount of AA + item focus is stacking too high, causing it to reset the buff timer. I think I had a fix for this at one point, i'll have to dig through source to get a fix.


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Re: Whats with buff timers??

« Reply #16 on: September 28, 2010, 04:21:49 pm »

What I have noticed with my bard atleast is sometimes in Nexus/SFG the buffs will reset down to 3 min duration -- but then the FG/CG buffs will last the full time. Dunno what is different with that but it's chill


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Secrets

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Re: Whats with buff timers??

« Reply #17 on: September 28, 2010, 04:23:53 pm »

I'm just gonna disable calculating the AA/Spell buffs that increase duration to see if that fixes it. The issue only seems to be on characters that have those AAs/Buffs.

I sent Hunter the diff so it should be in for the 6AM reboot, provided he's around tonight.


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lerxst2112

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Re: Whats with buff timers??

« Reply #18 on: September 28, 2010, 06:39:48 pm »

It happens on my level 59 bard with no AA more than any other toon. I doubt it is focus/AA related.


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lerxst2112

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Re: Whats with buff timers??

« Reply #19 on: September 28, 2010, 07:56:09 pm »

My best guess, and only a guess, from looking at the vanilla emulator code is that somehow the caster level is being set to level 1.

That would explain why Conviction which uses the duration formula of (level * 30) tics is affected, and Acumen which uses the actual value from the spell as the duration is unaffected.

Does that make any sense?


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Nova5555

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Re: Whats with buff timers??

« Reply #20 on: September 29, 2010, 07:49:14 am »

Yes, that explanation works.
This is not AA related as it happens when I cast with characters that have no AA's.


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lerxst2112

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Re: Whats with buff timers??

« Reply #21 on: September 29, 2010, 10:19:23 am »

One other thing I was just thinking of. I've only noticed this on buffs that come from the buff bot, and on characters that aren't fg/cg flagged so they need to click the confirmation text.

Maybe whatever is handling responding to that dynamically generated saylink is doing something wrong. I never had the problem until after the buff bots were broken a few weeks back. Did something change in the script right about then?

Has anyone had this problem when they get buffs just by hailing and not clicking the secondary confirmation link?


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Re: Whats with buff timers??

« Reply #22 on: September 30, 2010, 06:26:40 am »

It just occurred to me....this started also about the time that self click buffs were corrected to work at the required item level rather than lvl 1. Might that have something to do with it?


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Re: Whats with buff timers??

« Reply #23 on: September 30, 2010, 12:13:00 pm »

I have yet to have this happen to any of my characters. SoD client, if that matters. Mage DS works fine, Mage's pet buff bot works fine, Monk buff bot and Paladin buff bot and castable buffs.

It seems the bug is not from the caster, but the receiver.

I was in a party with some guildies last night, and my group Mage DS was wearing off our tank at odd times without being dispelled. It was very random.


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Re: Whats with buff timers??

« Reply #24 on: September 30, 2010, 02:21:29 pm »

Its happened on Titanium, SoF and SoD clients so far from what I have heard....and ya, it only happens for me on characters that have not been cg/fg flagged


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Re: Whats with buff timers??

« Reply #25 on: October 02, 2010, 09:04:15 am »

Quote from: mpano66 on September 30, 2010, 02:21:29 pm

Its happened on Titanium, SoF and SoD clients so far from what I have heard....and ya, it only happens for me on characters that have not been cg/fg flagged

Happened to me just now, boxing my Cleric and Warrior, got buffed and zoned, timers on most went down to 2 minutes... Sad

I gated, rebuffed, the Warriors stayed correct this time, but the Clerics went back to 2 minutes for most...
I am running SoD on both accounts...


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throeplith

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Re: Whats with buff timers??

« Reply #26 on: November 07, 2010, 10:59:45 am »

Glad I found this thread, because I am having the same issue. All my timers get severely reduced once they stick. For instance, Regrowth goes from 18:27 to 1:18. I relogged once and it fixed the issue, but now sometimes when I zone with Buff Bot buffs and then try to Regen/DS with my druid they don't stick. Not the end of the world, just trying to figure out what causes this.

None of the characters I am using right now have AA's (they're only in the 40's)
Edit: Druid is 58 but no AAs


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lwaggie

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Re: Whats with buff timers??

« Reply #27 on: November 07, 2010, 11:52:22 am »

Happened to me yesterday. After they flashed after 3 min I potted back to FG and rebuffed at raid bot. Timers were wrong clicked each off manually and rebuffed Belford fine after that. Was odd. Was on my 70 SHD 3.0. Baby pally had no issue with SFG buff bot.


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lerxst2112

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Re: Whats with buff timers??

« Reply #28 on: November 07, 2010, 05:04:46 pm »

Self buff first and then hail the buff bot, or remove your newbie charm and hail the buff bot then replace it.

The interesting thing is that the newbie charm seems to cause the issue. At least one person has had trouble where their normal spells were doing far less damage and healing than normal which makes me think those spells were being cast as level 1 as well.

Perhaps reverting the change to make click levels match required levels only on the newbie charms would help? One thing I noticed when looking at this is that the newbie charm has a required level of 1 and a recommended level of 30. Perhaps that is throwing things off.