The first rank of Arcane Whisper does not seem to lower aggro by any amount according to the aggro meter on TLP during TSS. When compared to Mind Crash III which lowers aggro by 7500 points, Arcane Whisper I which is supposed to lower aggro by 20000 points and then by 4% of total aggro does not seem to be doing anything at all. I know there was a change to this ability in 2019 to prevent an exploit at higher levels/ranks of the ability and I believe that change has had an effect on the lower ranks of the ability. I have tested this multiple times both while having more than 100% aggro and when trying to lower aggro % during an encounter to prevent pulling aggro from the tank. Please look into this.
After doing some more testing, I am not even getting any message anywhere in game that shows this ability was even used, other than the ability going on cooldown. The text upon use should read "You whisper an ancient incantation." But I am failing to even see that upon use. Please take a look at this spell as it is very useful for high aggro casters.
Yeah this does seem broken. The hate override doesn't reduce your agro. It prob just makes it so the spell itself doesn't add any. And 4% doesn't do enough to be useful. They should just copy Mind Crash from the same time period and make it like 1/3 as strong or something. Going back to the original would cause problems and it was always really weak in the first place.
According to the numbers on Aradune during SoF, Arcane Whisper should be a much bigger hate decrease than Mind Crash, a little more than double (14000 vs 30000). Not to mention during this era, Mind Crash is a 36m reuse whereas Arcane Whisper is only 20m, and able to be used by all cloth casters, where mind crash is Wizard only. I am unclear on what problems this ability was causing on live as I have not played on a live server since TDS, and even then, I was playing a Rogue. If any additional information is needed to make the QA process smoother, please let me know and I will attempt to provide it. Thank you!
I only suggested Mind Crash because I know it works and has a similar goal in reducing hate all in one cast. Originally whisper reduced hate over time but it had an exploit so it was turned into what it does now which for whatever reason doesn't work. I was just guessing that the 30k was only reducing the hate of whisper itself and not the player's since that's kinda what it seems like.
Clearly, the intended hate reduction tool needs to be repaired/implemented. As a healer, I find it difficult enough to keep the wizards up in game as is.
Almost one year since this bug was confirmed. The new expansion has upgrades of an ability that they have confirmed does not work. Any word on a fix yet?
