Tangy Caramel Apple

[mystickitty]

I know it's frustrating, sorry about it. This bug haunts us for years now and we can't seem to find the roots of it (I think we are getting closer now). If there's any information that could help to spot when the issue happens, it'd be a great help. I know it's hard because usually you just realize a bit later that the aug is actually not having any stats anymore, but if you could tell what happened before, it'd be helpful still. Like were you using custom, were you killing again to level it up, etc.

<3 I know it's frustrating for you guys as well. I was just killing in the zone and not for very long at the time. I think I might of even killed The Boogie Man then left .

Would you have chance killed a bloodthirsty werewolf? There was a different syntax in this one’s particular script that varied from the others. Wouldn’t 100% account for it but could be part of the problem

I can't recall 100% but it is very likely that I did kill some of those.

[joffy]

I was fooling around and seeing if a pet kill would trigger the message, but then I got swarmed and my pet died then I got the message twice. I'm not sure of the exact order, but my pet did get summoned again and died again, so I think I got the message after each pet death. I tried a few more times and got it one or 2 more times when my pet died (I think) it could be the swarm of guy, usually there is a werewolf there. Tried having my pet solo a werewolf and he died then killed werewolf and didn't get the begins message. I had my pet attack 2 non werewolves and die, then kill them and no message. So I'll keep trying to see if I can find a pattern to the message.

[joffy]

Here is a screen shot after another big encounter, I got the message twice after pet death, but this time didn't have a chance to summon a new one. Still not sure the exact trigger yet.

[Lillu]

Thanks a lot for trying to narrow it down, it's a great help! Right now we can't reproduce the issue internally and that makes it impossible to actually fix it.

[joffy]

I tell everyone at work "If you can reproduce it, I can fix it!". I hope this isn't a race condition though, cause those are the worst.

[joffy]

OK, So I tried this 3 times in a row, and it worked 3 times in a row:

I am using: Monk in a Fairy costume, Statue of Draekon pet

I walk up behind a "a risen giant" and have my pet attack it. (My pet is unbuffed)
I turn around and run the other direction as fast as I can (donor boots)
Pet dies in about 5-10 seconds and then I am summoned to the giant.
I kill the giant quickly and get the message that says BEGINS to grow in power.

*EDIT* now 4 times in a row after gating then coming back and trying again.

[Vaion]

This actually helps a lot and highlights a different longer standing bug that may be related to this… gonna dig through some stuff tonight and see if I can find it

[Vaion]

I just pushed another update for this. It’s not a fix for the speculative bug with pets, but should help resolve part of the issue with the scripts not being able to “find” a flag properly.

Also a solid chance I messed it all up haha, so let me know. It may require a server reboot since I modified how the scaling script works too.

[joffy]

I (Adrianmonk) forgot to check right away, but soon after I started killing in North Karana (in costume) I noticed my Apple does have the stats 4hp/4mp/4en. But I never saw the message that it was powering up (or begins powering up). Not sure how many kills it would take to get it past 4/4/4 but I would say it was 10 - 20. I'll try some more but fear its not getting counted. (I did run the update client first before logging in)