1.10 Beta Bugs

[Crystalion]

I've been using a rare pally shield that adds 1 to offence auras and I noticed that when I had hs activated (and I have no points added to hs) and I replaced the scepter with the sword I had been using I still had the holy shock aura.

Yep. It isn't really a serious bug until you add in the v1.10 uber skills and start swapping items around. There are also bugs (iirc longstanding) that enable you to confuse the frontend into showing a skill on an action button that isn't real (because the backend has a different idea). You can, for example, confuse the frontend into showing you singing an aura (sorry, EQ bardspeak, but I like the metaphor: aura = aria) when, in fact, you aren't. This is most easily accomplished by fooling with some of the weird behavior of weapon switches (and also corpse looting).

Craziel wrote:

1) Does it work if you re-equip a different weapon, or is the bug eliminated?

Yes. That's the point in saying that neither weapon switches or death defeats the exploit.
Craziel wrote:

does this allow a character to get around the spell timer?

AFAIK spell recast timers are done globally, so there wouldn't be any impact on them with this exploit.
Craziel wrote:

it seems like more trouble than it's worth to abuse

Well, you're going in the right direction, thinking of Zeal. Since there are a lot of powerful cross-class skills granted by uber items and those uber items will be very very rare in the new economy and some of them are balanced assuming you must be still using the granting item, you get some interesting abuse possible. For example, a Passion *bow* can be used to grant Zeal (for your favorite melee weapon), so you can give the bow back to your Rogue hireling after you've exploited to give yourself Zeal. Later you could grab it back again for a moment to acquire Berserk, for that Physically immune monster you want to kill.

In short, although it's a fun "feature" it really is a bug, and should be stomped for v1.10 release.

p.s. no, I didn't report this on the Blizz forums, as that is a hassle and Bolty assures us we get lurked here anyway. :blink: