Shadow Flare and Sacred Soil

[peaches]

I just noticed yesterday that when either Shadow Flare or Sacred Soil is up, and I try to cast the other ground targeted AoE, it replaces the first regardless of the duration left. A lot of the times I'd like to pop sacred soil on our group because there's a big pull, but I'd also like to put me AoE dps to use, and find I can't because of this little problem.

Is this a bug? There is nothing in either description that says you can only place one at a time.

[SeraviEdalborez]

Seems intentional. I don't really mind it, as there isn't really any other way to manually turn off Shadow Flare so it is situationally useful for, say, pulling a succubus in AK.

[IceSpear]

Yeah it's a bug, I saw it in one of the bug forums a few weeks ago.

[Espon]

I don't think it's a bug. It's probably intentional since Shadow Flare can also be considered a defensive ability since it applies a 20% slow and they probably don't want you to be able to stack both.

[Maku]

I too figured it was working as intended but just did a search and sure enough a thread about it was moved to the "Accepted Bug" area so they actually acknowledge it as a bug.

[Darkoray]

I submitted the bug report for this about 3 weeks ago and its a confirmed bug.

[SeraviEdalborez]

"Accepted" is not the same as "confirmed". The exact response can be seen at following link and will be quoted (with underline for emphasis) for good measure.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/100688

Thank you for posting your concerns about Sacred Soil canceling Shadow Flare when cast. We will be bringing it up to the development team, but it may be possible that one ability does over take the other . I have made sure to submit all of your information to the development team, and they will thoroughly investigate this matter, based on your report. Unfortunately, I cannot guarantee that a direct response will be posted on this thread, but I do recommend checking Here or Here for any details regarding the development team's investigation. Thanks again for your report!

Doesn't mean "bug", just means they will bring it up with developers. Could be intentional but not clearly defined, as with Bane's 3 target limit.

[JonFarron]

"Accepted" is not the same as "confirmed". The exact response can be seen at following link and will be quoted (with underline for emphasis) for good measure.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/100688



Doesn't mean "bug", just means they will bring it up with developers. Could be intentional but not clearly defined, as with Bane's 3 target limit.

Wait, since when is Bane a 3 target limit? I could've sworn I Bane'd all of Garuda's feathers several times...

[IceSpear]

Wait, since when is Bane a 3 target limit? I could've sworn I Bane'd all of Garuda's feathers several times...

They confermid it a few days ago that it hits 3 targets.