Is Despair broken?

Magrailothos

I have Despair at Mastery level three; which should reduce healing by 15% per debuff. Usually this seems to work; but it doesn't against Mephisto:



As you can see, I have nine shock charges on Mephisto, but he's still healing significantly.

I suspect this is caused by a flaw in the coding that makes Mephisto invulnerable whilst regenerating; as there are other instances of him healing when he shouldn't:
https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/60141/is-mephisto-broken#latest

Could a Mod please arrange for this to be looked into?

Thanks.

Mirage_Turtle

This seems to be all about Mephisto's coding. It can be very tough to stop that regen.

Guillotine's phantasm is completely ignored and he regenerates as usual (I would think it should act as a heal block since the healing is turned to damage and the damage is ignored while Mephisto is consuming souls.)

If I'm not mistaken, Void can stop the healing, but he's unable to reverse it during the time when he's consuming souls.

You can't stop him from triggering this healing phase by reducing ability accuracy. His description grants him this workaround.

I honestly don't know how heal block affects this regen.

Kabam made Mephisto's regen pretty unique as far as regen goes. I wouldn't be surprised if despair is also ignored.

Magrailothos

Thanks, @Mirage_Turtle.

If this is working as intended, given that this is the 'Bugs' thread, it should be easy for one of the Mods to clarify.

If Mephisto's regeneration is that resistant to being interfered with, it really should be clearer in his character description.

Etaki_Lirakoi

Mirage_Turtle wrote: »

This seems to be all about Mephisto's coding. It can be very tough to stop that regen.

Guillotine's phantasm is completely ignored and he regenerates as usual (I would think it should act as a heal block since the healing is turned to damage and the damage is ignored while Mephisto is consuming souls.)

If I'm not mistaken, Void can stop the healing, but he's unable to reverse it during the time when he's consuming souls.

You can't stop him from triggering this healing phase by reducing ability accuracy. His description grants him this workaround.

I honestly don't know how heal block affects this regen.

Kabam made Mephisto's regen pretty unique as far as regen goes. I wouldn't be surprised if despair is also ignored.

You can stop the regen by reducing ability accuracy, just not with passive ability accuracy.

So, BW and CB won’t work (Passive reduction), but Quake with concussion can (Active reduction).

Magrailothos

So this doesn't seem to have been recognised as an issue. Could a mod respond? It'd be nice to get an explanation for another Mastery not working as described.

Thanks.