Lightning-Effect of the dismantler gains no EP

[Homek]

I was looking through the first 20 pages and could not find any related topic, so here is mine.
When you hit an enemy with the dismantler, and the lightning-effect kills the monster, you don't get any ep from it.
Is this working as intended?
Because of this effect, i changed back to the "Sword of Nex" in my Toorum-Soloplay.

[LiamKerrington]

Hi.

That is an interesting observation.
I thought of the lightning effect to be a secondary effect which does not occur all the time and which requires you to hit the creature normally. And if you hit the creature normally and deal at least 1 (0?) hitpoints of damage, you receive all the experience points available for the beast ...

Now, if I am wrong and the lightning effect does happen without your fighter hitting normally, then probably the lightning effect would not be connected to his attack - just like throwing things at a beast instead of attacking with ranged weapons or falling on it; and then yes, you would not receive the experience points for it ...

Really interesting question. Really.

All the best!
Liam

[Homek]

I really don't know if the normal weapon has to hit to procc the lightning-strike.
But if the lightning kills the monster, you get no ep, regardless how many times you have hit it before the killing-strike.
It's like if you hit a monster serveral times, and it then gets killed by a lightning- or a fireball-trap and you get no ep.

[LiamKerrington]

Hi.



Then I would call it a bug, not a feature ...

I think this would need some fixing then - in ways like you get experience points from casting lightning bolts or throwing bombs as ranged weapon attack in order to kill the creature ...

All the best!
Liam

[petri]

Thanks for the report! This is probably a bug.

[Thrasher]

Has this been fixed? I'd hate my solo Toorum to not get anymore XP. What a shame.

Is there a patch or manual fix I could make?

Cheers!

[petri]

This should be fixed in 1.3.1.

[Thrasher]

Thanks! I used the dismantler last night with the latest patch and it seems to be giving me XP on every kill (with and without lightning on the final strike). Not conclusive, but supportive.