Shadow Flare glitch?

I was debating rather I should put this in Healer or DPS section, but its a DD move so I'ma list it here.

I was just running WP and doing the normal routine. When we got to the first boss, I tried to place a Shadow Flare down... but it apparently missed?

http://puu.sh/5BFNZ/58ec927d26.jpg

I don't know if accuracy can even affect floor AOE, but I do have 350 as a SCH.

Anyways, I'm just curious of this is a glitch of some sort or I'm just doing it wrong.

Shadowflare's damages are not in the combat log. I think you just dodged an attack right after casting Shadowflare

That combat log doesn't say anything about you missing shadowflare. It's a buff you gained and 30 seconds later you lost it. Nothing special. Turn on timestamps!!

My apology for the late reply, I should of turn timestamp on. The problem was that the shadow flare disappeared as soon as I casted it. It didn't even tick.

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Originally Posted by Zer0mr

That combat log doesn't say anything about you missing shadowflare. It's a buff you gained and 30 seconds later you lost it. Nothing special. Turn on timestamps!!

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I don't think it took 30 seconds for the PLD to go from Fast Blade to Savage Blade.

Anyway, I've never actually seen this happen. Weird. >_>

When you cast shadow flare, you gain a buff that's more of a timer that reflects shadow flare's remaining duration.

Edit: Nevermind me, I misinterpreted the OP.

Did you use Sacred Soil?

For some reason SS and Shadow Flare overwrite one another.

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Originally Posted by Sylari

Did you use Sacred Soil?

For some reason SS and Shadow Flare overwrite one another.

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This.

You can only have one ground-target spell out at a time.

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Originally Posted by Sylari

Did you use Sacred Soil?

For some reason SS and Shadow Flare overwrite one another.

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May be true...but the log doesn't have him casting it at all.

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Originally Posted by Sylari

Did you use Sacred Soil?

For some reason SS and Shadow Flare overwrite one another.

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I did not, I think it would of been included in the battle log if I did.

this is strange and it's never happened to me before

maybe you clicked the buff off by accident? assuming you can even do that with shadowflare

It actually happened to me once before in my WP run.

It was when I fought with the first boss. My accuracy was around 417.

I did several things I don't remember, then afterwards when I used Shadow Flare, the message said that the boss dodged it, which was very surprising.

I tried using Shadow Flare several more times to no avail until I resumed my normal rotation. Then, some time later I could successfully use it.

Right now I face no such problem though.

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Originally Posted by hamsteak

this is strange and it's never happened to me before

maybe you clicked the buff off by accident? assuming you can even do that with shadowflare

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You can't click off Flaming Arrow. I assume the same is true of Shadow Flare.

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Originally Posted by Viridiana

You can't click off Flaming Arrow. I assume the same is true of Shadow Flare.

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It is true.

As you have a shadowflare active you do loose any other shadowflare active (edit) as casting a new one.
The combatlog will state you are casting flare. Nothing will tell you you finished the 2nd cast. But you will see the loss of the buff of your first flare.

Why the bubble didn´t appear? No clue maybe it got 90000k error and as it reconnected you were allready done with that instance leaving a sad bubble behind.

I see he used Moldy Sneeze just before it. I'm fairly certain that move prevents debuffs from landing for a period of time, perhaps SF counts in this mechanic? I've had my DoT's on both BRD and SMN get erased and "no effect" when I try putting them back on immediately after sometimes. I'm fairly certain it only has happened to me after sneezes.

This happens when you put a Cleric Stance'd Shadow Flare down, and try to overwrite it with a non-Cleric Shadow Flare.