Heals Over Time broked in the same manner as DoTs

After reading the suggestion that this may be possible I went and tested it

Cast Cloud of Renewal on group
Aggro mob on shm
Die on shm
Tank with monk > Rez token the shm from monk

Immediately after the shamans death the Cloud of Renewal spells disassociated with the shaman, Rather than SHM has healed you over time for xxxx it began to read you have been healed over time for xxxx. Then, after accepting rez I began to cast heals to keep the monk up, however, the new heal over times, of every sort, Union of Spirits, new Cloud of Renewal, Abundant healing, all were not attributed to the shaman and were not focused and were not critting.

Discuss

I did not test it after fading with shaman via Inconspicuous Totem, however, I Imagine and suspect that it may be the same deal

Checking our last parses.. shows definite weirdness on dots being recorded. Shows in cast counts but as no dmg for two of our beastlords. I'd say its affecting more than just heals and necros.

Did you check to see if nukes have the same issues?

I didn't, and don't have time to tonight, however, that is a good idea to do, whos up to it?

I lied, tested it, nukes are fine, had a druid die, come back in, all normal, had him fade, nuke again, all fine

Ahhh, so that must be what happened to me tonight in a ETWK HA. I died on my SK and later on in the HA, I cast a dot that does more damage to plant-based mobs than other stuff. I noticed that the dot was doing zero damage, nothing. I later cast a poison dot, and that dot, too, was doing zero damage.

Annoying bug. Hopefully they're aware of it and working to fix it. Sucks to hear that it's effecting Heal-over-time spells now also.

All this fubar, and for months, because someone really wanted dots to parse well on raids, never mind legit reasons to drop aggro. QA team on strike eh?

To be honest, something does not add up here. They made a change that no body liked, said they were going to change it back. Why did they not just use the old code? They must have backup.

It has little to do with parsing. It is because they were trying to fix mob stealing on the time locked progression servers.

Well if they actually tested crap on the TEST server it might make a difference. As it seems the last few years test is mostly to verify the patch does not fry the server.

mmm. And to serve that end you've definitely /testcopied yourself and an alt of each class to test dying & resing in combat each month?

that is a pretty good thing to verify.

Can you please elaborate? I don’t see how these changes prevent KS.

Even if they do find thigns on test it still gets pushed to live regardless.

But this stuff shouldn't be down to the test server it should be the responsability of Quality Control.

QC needs to legitimately play the game - They would catch a lot of problems that way. Also, they need to STOP patching things live when testers have reported to have game breaking bugs.

same on all heal back dots really need Fix this now .........................................

This change needs to be backed out and re-imagined. I get the intent. But it didn't work.

We are aware of this. Thank you. I have no ETA that I can give you. I'm simply letting you know we are aware.

Thanks Ngreth.

That is all that is necessary at this time.