Bellowing Roar buff and friendly fire by summoned drakes
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 6:30 pm
I was going to post this in the Bug section, but it rather looks like a game balancing problem. Since beta 43, friendly fire by summoned Fire Drakes seems to have become much deadlier than before. My level 17 Yeek Summoner (about 300 HP) was insta-gibbed by the level 5 Fire Drake he had just summoned to clear a room in the Ruined Halfling Complex, fried by a spell the drake cast before he could take a single step to hide behind a corner. As far as I can tell, the culprit is Bellowing Roar, which according to the change log now inflicts physical damage; I just inspected an other summoned Fire Drake: when casting Bellowing Roar, it deals 270.39 physical damage in a radius of 7... This seems a little excessive, and makes Fire Drakes basically unusable in most areas.