Sacred Soil + Shadow Flare

[Darkoray]

If its working I cant see any reason as to why its this way. End of the day in an intense heal fight you wouldn't be using shadow flare anyway and if you are DPSing for some reason you wouldn't really be using sacred soil. Both are different skills so there is no stacking of effects.

[Marcusow86]

If its working I cant see any reason as to why its this way. End of the day in an intense heal fight you wouldn't be using shadow flare anyway and if you are DPSing for some reason you wouldn't really be using sacred soil. Both are different skills so there is no stacking of effects.

Although i do not know whether it is intended or not but i beg to defer. DPS and Heal is a totally different thing, you cannot say wouldn't be using this or that in any circumstances. IF i am comfortable with my fairy healing the first half of the fight, i have no problem dropping down a shadow flare to speed up the kill.

[Darkoray]

Although i do not know whether it is intended or not but i beg to defer. DPS and Heal is a totally different thing, you cannot say wouldn't be using this or that in any circumstances. IF i am comfortable with my fairy healing the first half of the fight, i have no problem dropping down a shadow flare to speed up the kill.

I don't disagree. I do the same thing. I was just pointing out they are different skill types so I cant see any reason they would cancel each other out.

[Remilia_Nightfall]

If its working I cant see any reason as to why its this way. End of the day in an intense heal fight you wouldn't be using shadow flare anyway and if you are DPSing for some reason you wouldn't really be using sacred soil. Both are different skills so there is no stacking of effects.

Well, Shadow Flare's slow affects a fair amount of enemies, and Slow is effectively mitigation - and mitigation equals more healing. You BET I'm using Shadow Flare in intense fights :P

[JonFarron]

That's what I've noticed... if I use Sacred Soil while Shadow Flare is out, Shadow gets canceled. o-o

If I use Sacred Soil first, it doesn't get canceled. It's weird, lol.

[HiliteOrin]

Another possibility that I didn't see mentioned is that the spells might not be cancelling each other's effects out, it might just be the case that the two animations bug out and only allow one to be shown at a time (I have noticed this, for example).

The reason I bring this up is that I was just messing around casting shadow flare and sacred soil on top of each other while in town and always noticed this weird animation cancelling effect. However, I once cast sacred soil followed by shadow flare and (as usual) the sacred soil animation disappeared but the buff received from it did not disappear from my buffs bar. Unfortunately, I didn't think to test it further than this, and I'm at work now so I can't do so. Maybe someone else can quickly do it and come back and let us know about this.

Either way, it is still annoying and a fix would be nice in any case.

[Nailkita]

As HiliteOrin said it could just be an animation bug, report it anyways, the main tell is that both put a buff on you when placed, regardless of if you're in sacred soil or not, is that buff still there?

[Darkoray]

Actually it clearly cancels the effect from the buffs bar and I have also tested it against single mobs and no damage will happen after I have cast sacred soil.

I reported it as a bug but the devs want a 20 page report and I don't have the time atm.

EDIT:

Tested it again just now. If shadow flare is up Sacred Soil will cancel the dot all together, animation, dot off the bar and damage output, 100% of the time. I tested it the other way around and cast Sacred Soil then cast Shadow flare and the results vary it seems. Most of the time the Sacred soil buff will end when shadow flare is cast. The difference I can see this way is that the -Scared Soil pop up will show up, like when any buff ends. If its the other way around -Shadow Flare wont pop up but the de-buff clearly finises.

On a few tries though the Sacred Soil buff seems to last for longer. This may have been due to my ping or lag however. I have also checked if it the same casting the 2 skills in different spots on the ground. Same results.

So I think this is clearly a bug.

[Suirieko]

Actually it clearly cancels the effect from the buffs bar and I have also tested it against single mobs and no damage will happen after I have cast sacred soil.

I reported it as a bug but the devs want a 20 page report and I don't have the time atm.

EDIT:

Tested it again just now. If shadow flare is up Sacred Soil will cancel the dot all together, animation, dot off the bar and damage output, 100% of the time. I tested it the other way around and cast Sacred Soil then cast Shadow flare and the results vary it seems. Most of the time the Sacred soil buff will end when shadow flare is cast. The difference I can see this way is that the -Scared Soil pop up will show up, like when any buff ends. If its the other way around -Shadow Flare wont pop up but the de-buff clearly finises.

On a few tries though the Sacred Soil buff seems to last for longer. This may have been due to my ping or lag however. I have also checked if it the same casting the 2 skills in different spots on the ground. Same results.

So I think this is clearly a bug.

Did you test it by yourself, or test it from another scholar and/or summoner?

Basically what I'd like to know that if one scholar in the party casts Sacred Soil, and I cast sacred soil on my summoner, would that still cancel each other?

[Nailkita]

Finally got around to testing this last night, regardless of which I cast first the other would disappear, and I'd lose the buffs. No other 50 SCH were online in my FC last night so I didn't get a chance to harass one to test that Suirieko, but I will check that, I don't think it wil.