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Ring of Torment EXP buff not as described

AKradianAKradian
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edited January 2018 in Bug Reporting
(Reporting for Discordian mórk EMS)

Bug type: Item, Skill

Brief bug summary: The Ring of Torment skill is described as granting 15% base exp increase, but it doesn't. The description also fails to include the skill's duration.

More details: The Ring of Torment is an item in the current Marvel Machine reward list. It grants the skill by the same name, whose description is
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However, the skill does not actually increase the base exp.
Killing enemies at Arcana, with 100% burning field and a rune buff, I get this EXP without the Ring of Torment Skill
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and this EXP with the skill
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As can be seen, the only difference in EXP between the two scenarios is the 73k EXP bonus, which is 15% of the base exp (491k). The exp bonuses from the rune and the burning field are unchanged.
If the skill actually increased the base exp, we would see the bonuses from other buffs - burning, rune, HS, etc - increased by 15% as well.

An unrelated issue is that the skill description does not mention that the exp buff only lasts 15 minutes, which means that, since it has a 30-minute cooldown, it's only active half the time.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Kill monsters while using some kind of EXP buff(s)
2. Acquire a Ring of Torment, equip it, and activate the skill
3. Kill the same monsters using the same EXP buff(s)
4. Observe that the EXP increase is only 15% of base, and does not stack multiplicatively with the other buff(s).

5. Observe that the Ring of Torment buff runs out after 15 minutes.


Character name: mórk
Character level: 241
Character job: Nightlord
World name: Luna
Date and time of the incident: 1PM PST , Jan 27, 2018

Comments

  • zz2020zz2020
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    edited January 2018
    adding to clarify the buff does multiply with other multiplicative buffs like enjoyable winter, 2x cash card, 2x event etc

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    this image (also from mork) shows the exp with enjoyable winter.
    491156 * 1.5 * 1.15 = 847244 = 491156 + 356088

    however, as shown in the other two screenshots, it is NOT a base exp increase. A base exp increase the way it works in reboot would also increase the effect of additive buffs such as burning field, rune buff, mercedes link skill, holy symbol, and many others. But the ring doesn't.

    I'd like also to really mention how misleading it is for Nexon to advertise the ring the way they did and not even mention it's a 15 minute buff with a 30 minute cooldown. Seriously..
  • OkhuraOkhura
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    edited February 2018
    Thanks, it's been forwarded!
  • JushiroNetJushiroNet
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    edited April 2018
    Wondered if they decided the exp increase is working as intended?

    Is the low duration, high cd also intended?
  • JushiroNetJushiroNet
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    edited June 2018
    being described the same way again. Maybe they can figure out this time if it's an error in their description or an error in the ring's function.

    Or maybe we'll get ignored again.
  • AKradianAKradian
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    edited June 2018
    JushiroNet wrote: »
    being described the same way again. Maybe they can figure out this time if it's an error in their description or an error in the ring's function.

    Or maybe we'll get ignored again.

    I've reminded Nexon of the issues with this ring.
  • JushiroNetJushiroNet
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    edited January 2019
    maybe this can be fixed in time for the level 300 cap
  • JushiroNetJushiroNet
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    edited January 2019
    I see the tooltip was changed instead of making the functionality match the original cash shop listing. I guess that's fine.

    There's a new issue now, it says the cd is 30 seconds but it's actually 30 minutes. To be honest the ring should be made to be a 30 second cd to make it less trash but that probably won't happen.

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  • 12hrs12hrs
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    can anyone confirm that buff duration and cooldown reduction works on this ring as it appears to be in the beginner skills tab?