Bug with Entangling Roots?Follow

I helped a guildy do this the other day and had no problem overwriting my (or his) entangling roots.

I don't know if it would affect it or not, but did you change any gear in between roots? Maybe less spell damage on the 2nd one would affect it?

Either that or you my have a rogue lower rank roots on your bar somewhere :)

Hope you get it sorted.

I don't play my druid much, except to raid (I'm 61 points resto, I aint farming much) but whenever I do the dailies i notice the same thing. This is without trinkets (I rarely use trinkets, even in raids, except for the passive buffs) and AFAIK no proc effects would buff roots.

Edited, Apr 7th 2008 10:18pm by skribs

On my druid, it would be without any bonus effects. Resto offers nothing in the way of providing temporary buffs that would help roots (except for NS, but I dont use that on roots), and I wasn't using trinkets at all. Even if I was, my trinkets are ribbon of sacrifice (which buffs healing taken by a friendly target of direct heals) or LCPB (which reduces mana cost of spells) so neither would affect my abilities.
MAYBE it's that buffs are wearing off, but I wasn't paying attention to that, and I think it happened too often for that to be the case.

I've had the same issue while doing the Daily at Bash'ir Landing in BEM. Can't re-root until the previous spell has expired. I'm resto and don't have anything that would be affecting roots - trinkets, buffs, or otherwise.

I will take a stab at this.

I'm gonna say that you had an improved Divine Spirit buff and it wore off during the middle of the battle, making the new roots weaker than the previous application.

Likely? No. Possible? YES!

It's Monday. Cut me some slack.

::wrinkles her nose::

Dos priest spell? At least in my situation it's not the case, my only traveling companion is my pocket gnome fire mage hubby.

..Think it could have been because of Arcane Intellect? We always buff before a fight so it that was the case then shouldn't it have been applied to the first roots and the second and the third.. for 30 minutes? ..bah but that doesn't really make sense either. :>




Edited, Apr 14th 2008 9:24pm by GryphonStalker

the only reason your own spells wouldnt overwrite themselves is if some kind of +dmg and/or +healing effect was active on the initial cast and became non-active while attempting to refresh the spell.

reasons for why this could happen would be:

improved divine spirit wearing off
trinket effects wearing off
procced +dmg or +healing effects wearing off
temporary mob vulnerability effects turning off and on
weapon swaps (going from a higher +dmg or +healing weapon to a lower one)

check all those first before calling out any kind of bugs. i know a lot of druids have auto-weapon swap macros for form switching, and that combined with the current functionality of casting while in forms (doing so casts the spell as it ***** you out) may be interfering and causing this problem, in addition to the other things listed above.

if NONE of those things happened...then there may be a bug, and you should report it on the oboard bug report forums, with as much exact detail regarding your gearing and buffs and situation at the time said incident occurred.

I think I realized what the problem is now.

I started getting the glitch myself and I realized that in 2.4 or 2.3, they made it so other druids can't over-write your CC thorns/cyclone/Hibernate. What's probably happening is the 'fix' is causing you to be unable to over-write your own, due to some error or unforeseen conflict.

I can only speculate what the actual cause is, but I haven't been able to over-write my own roots for a long time, and it happens everywhere. I'll see if the WoW forums have anything on it.