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7 years ago

DN Annihilate on third turn in arena?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A23O_0mbsA4

Man, searching forums for the keywords in my title question was exhausting and all unrelated to arena, only raid. I posted the 30 sec clip on YT above.

Is it possible or am I missing something, I have a nightmare team and can't face Traya teams in my shard because if my DN misses Drain Force, their DN annihilates on third turn all the time.

Sequence, First turn enemy DN - Annihilate Cooldown is 8, Drain Force minus 5, so it's 3 on his next turn

Second turn - Annihilate Cooldown goes to 2, just like mine does when I drain everyone, DN does basic

Before his third turn, Traya does Isolate and gives Prot Up tp DN and reduces his cooldowns by one, so it should read as 1 on his third turn

DN third turn, annihilate cooldown goes down to 1, but he annihilates anyway. Is this math correct? It's like DN had an extra turn when Traya did Isolate but this shouldn't happen the way I read the descriptions.

I have so many of these vids on my phone, it's so painful to move all the vids from the dumb video app (free) i used to capture these, if my DN drain force hits their DN, I"m 50/50 beating Traya, this bug (is it?) has stymied me since Traya rolled around.
  • Cooldown goes from 8 to 3 (7,6,5,4,3) from Drain Force. Goes from 3 to 2 from second turn. Goes from 2 to 1 to Isolate. When he takes his third turn, 1 goes to 0.


    WAI, i think.
  • "swgohfan29;c-1585728" wrote:
    Cooldown goes from 8 to 3 (7,6,5,4,3) from Drain Force. Goes from 3 to 2 from second turn. Goes from 2 to 1 to Isolate. When he takes his third turn, 1 goes to 0.


    WAI, i think.


    this. notice he got the protection up. that means he also received a CD decrease from isolate.
  • Your video is pretty fast, but it looks like you did not increase his cooldowns with yours. So first turn Drain Force moves it 8 to 3. Beginning of second turn it would be at 2, beginning of third would be at 1, EXCEPT there is the decrease from Isolate as others have pointed out, so looks WAI.

    There is a documented bug where if you had increased his cooldown, he would go early, because I don't think his cooldown correctly increases past 8. Not sure if they've ever done anything about that. But it looks like your increase failed, so not what's happening here.
  • "crzydroid;c-1585792" wrote:
    Your video is pretty fast, but it looks like you did not increase his cooldowns with yours. So first turn Drain Force moves it 8 to 3. Beginning of second turn it would be at 2, beginning of third would be at 1, EXCEPT there is the decrease from Isolate as others have pointed out, so looks WAI.

    There is a documented bug where if you had increased his cooldown, he would go early, because I don't think his cooldown correctly increases past 8. Not sure if they've ever done anything about that. But it looks like your increase failed, so not what's happening here.


    Abilities that start on cooldown don't seem to be able to be increased past their cooldown before the first turn. I've had Wampa get his cooldowns increased before he goes, but his furious foe roar special will always start on it's 4 turn cooldown. My best guess is that these "Start on cooldown" special abilities, have their cooldowns set to be the maximum natural cooldown when they take their first turn.
  • Thanks for the info, wanted to make sure things are happening as they should. I shall dig up another video I recorded where I won that exact battle afterward, when my DN drain force hit their DN before its first turn. Their DN didn't annihilate on third turn, despite the same sequence of events. (Prot Up from Traya Isolate and a 5 Drain on my team) I have to go edit it, cut it to size to email/SMS out to post to YT (only way I could figure it out, and can't post to Youtube directly from app)

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