Sapphiron / Frost Resist Broken?

#0 - Jan. 29, 2009, 6:31 a.m.

We cleared Sapph last week with the achievement on a bad pull with no deaths. We've been clearing naxx every week. We went into tonight and our tank had 300+ resist and was still taking 1000+ dmg from the aura. It's not our group, since it's the same group that has been destroying naxx every week. We compared dmg between people with gear and people without and it almost was like the gear did little help.

Questions
1) is sapphs auro dmg calculation not working right?
2) is it the frost resist not working?
3) is he just doing more dmg?
4) was his aura a magic dmg before? and now isn't? or was it always a non-magic dmg.

Daelo

#108 - Feb. 4, 2009, 5:41 p.m.

We've made no explicit changes to the encounter on the design side to change how the frost aura works. When Sapphiron enters combat, he casts a spell on himself that every 2 seconds casts the debuff players receive, which you see as "Frost Aura". That debuff is a 5 second duration damage over time effect that deals frost damage every second. The only difference between the 10 and 25 player versions of these spells is the amount of damage.

So if you were only getting damaged every 2 seconds previously in a 10 player raid, and still are only getting damaged every 2 seconds in a 25 player raid, there's some kind of odd bug going on that I'll have to track down. Especially since the data says you should be taking damage every second.

Daelo

#124 - Feb. 4, 2009, 6:55 p.m.

Ah, thanks for reminding me. We're also trying to track down why Sapphiron decides to occasionally not cast all the Ice Blocks he should.

Daelo

#152 - Feb. 4, 2009, 10:37 p.m.

Once we find out what he bug is and correct the problem, we'll adjust the numbers if needed to closely match the damage that players have been experiencing when WotLK shipped. We're not trying to adjust the difficulty of this fight, but we need to determine what's happening so this bug doesn't cause problems with future encounters.