Shaman staff bug

[dev1null]

If I cast poison bolt while using Shaman staff, it improves the poison bolt by giving it additional DOT like poison cloud...BUT if the monster gets killed by the DOT, i dont get xp. Is that working as intended?

[Raappis]

I can confirm this. I spent 23 points on earth magic for improved poison bolt and it's the same. If the poison cloud left by improved poison bolt kills, no xp is gained. It's not on patch list so could anyone please confirm if it's intended?

[Darklord]

Sounds like a bug to me. Petri will likely add it to his list.

Daniel.

[Raappis]

Hope so, I find myself not using poison bolt much because of this. Oh well, a minor annoyance it is.

[pimpskinny]

Uh oh! I just made a character with this specific item in mind

[pimpskinny]

... so should I interpret the above to mean that BOTH the Shaman Staff and Improved Poison Bolt are bugged?

[pimpskinny]

... sorry, don't mean to spam. But reading up on some other threads, it looks like the bug might be associated only with the Poison Cloud that is added to the spell Poison Bolt by either the Shaman Staff or the Poison Bolt Upgrade.

Therefore, casting Poison CLOUD is bug-free no matter what.

Also, casting Poison BOLT without the Shaman Staff and without the Poison Bolt Upgrade is bug-free.

But ... casting Poison BOLT with either the Shaman Staff or Poison Bolt Upgrade is bugged: If the target dies because of the Poison Cloud added to your Poison Bolt spell, then experience will not be granted to the party.

I haven't tested, just repeated what I've read elsewhere.

[Arctor]

Uh oh! I just made a character with this specific item in mind

It's not that bad. You'll likely get your killing blow from the bolt and not the DOT.

I can't give up my Shaman Staff at this point. It's far too powerful to not use because of this minimal EXP glitch.

I do a lot of running around during combat and the mobs are also moving and I have usually gained EXP.

[pimpskinny]

Yea it doesn't seem like this bug would be in play most of the time. The scenarios required for the killing blow to be a DoT from the added cloud seem unlikely.

[petri]

This is on my todo list. Should be pretty easy to fix... Afaik only the improved poison bolt spell is affected.