08-02-2003, 01:42 AM
The Zeal bug is basically: if you are attacked during the first swing of your zeal, that swing and all other swings will miss. I've been playing a paladin a lot in 1.10 with Zeal and whenever I get surrounded I have to switch to normal attack to get out (which hits fine), because I always get attacked during that first swing, and thus never hit anything for as many zeals as I feel like doing.
I've tested it out against just one enemy and it's pretty obvious. Try it on a stone skin boss who swings at the same rate that you can complete a zeal. I did it against an Urdar. I would Zeal and miss, during the first swing he would swing and miss. Over and over and over, with me never hitting, and he occasionally hitting. Then, I waited to start my Zeal until he had already attacked me: I hit 4/5 of my swings. Then time my next swing to start right as he swings at me: I miss all attacks of that Zeal, and can continue to miss forever, since 1 Zeal takes me the same time as 1 swing for him.
In all my playing and testing I have had %85 - %95 toHit, which make a Zeal that misses all 5 attacks very unlikely, but the bug makes it VERY common.
I posted this in the 1.10 bugs thread as well.
I've tested it out against just one enemy and it's pretty obvious. Try it on a stone skin boss who swings at the same rate that you can complete a zeal. I did it against an Urdar. I would Zeal and miss, during the first swing he would swing and miss. Over and over and over, with me never hitting, and he occasionally hitting. Then, I waited to start my Zeal until he had already attacked me: I hit 4/5 of my swings. Then time my next swing to start right as he swings at me: I miss all attacks of that Zeal, and can continue to miss forever, since 1 Zeal takes me the same time as 1 swing for him.
In all my playing and testing I have had %85 - %95 toHit, which make a Zeal that misses all 5 attacks very unlikely, but the bug makes it VERY common.
I posted this in the 1.10 bugs thread as well.