"Brand of x" abilities changed since 1.20?

[CanteJondo]

I've been skilling up on shark oil on alch r31-33 with brand of lightning since patch.

I must have popped brand of lightning dozens of times then waited for 3 turns to try clear up the instability and not once has it worked.

Granted the recipe is quite high for my level giving me 700-800 exp a pop but I can't help but feel that they've nerfed the brand abilities a bit... better start stacking up on control!

Anyone else experiencing this?

edit: I've also had the lightning insta explode when brand of lightning was active, and I've had an instability start up when brand was active beforehand.

[Shosasosa]

i noticed the exact same thing with Brand of Lightning as well. like 5 times my brand of lighting has done nothing when i use it and then wait 3 times, I also just tried using it and then crafting with it on and it doesn't stabilize the synth. so i dont know if the abilities are broken, or if they changed them somehow....

[Sothis]

Having issues with Brand of Wind on weaver, as well. I'm glad to hear it's not just me.

[Lienn]

No brands seems to be working atm :/

[CanteJondo]

will submit as a bug report just incase!

[Jashynvald]

Same on this front. They seem to do bugger and all for the good slotting them is. I guess I can try out Improvise then and see how that helps since I can't banish them anymore.

[Sav]

It's confirmed here. All it says is that the Brands aren't working properly and will be fixed in 1.20b.

[Bayohne]

Sorry for the delayed response on this! We have confirmed a bug with the “Brand of” series of actions where the effect does not activate and we are planning to fix this during patch 1.20b.

[Xeonerable]

Can they just take out element instability instead? :P

[Lienn]

Can they just take out element instability instead? :P

I would love this. You use, unstable is gone and it does noot remove the current effect you have, just like the other instant actions.