Brilliant Energy too frustratingly inconsistent.

[Santa Claus Jr]

I'm playing an aldori defender/swordlord, currently 8 levels in both. I'm using Finnean as a dueling sword with him which honestly has worked pretty damn awesome WHEN IT WORKS, cause getting mad crits to touch AC ignoring concealment is nice for all these 50+ AC jerks.

The problem is, i'm tired of this ♥♥♥♥ just not working when I need it most. I'm not talking about the exception to brilliant energy of constructs+undead, I'm just fighting a boss fight against basic demons, I do a full attack MISSMISSMISSMISS like i'd have been surprised to miss once, let alone all my attacks. I check the log and of course once again i'm still going against their regular AC for no apparent reason.

Either I'm misunderstanding all the fine print i've reread several times about brilliant energy or chalk this up to another huge bummer of a bug. I feel like swordlord is kinda whack UNLESS I have this weapon equipped and working properly..

[Hobocop]

Sadly, Brilliant Energy only ignores armor and shield bonuses. All other AC bonuses, including natural armor which demons notoriously have bucketloads of, still apply.

[Santa Claus Jr]

Hmm, yeah you know brilliant energy weapons weren't common when I played tabletop but we basically played that as 'to touch AC' but I suppose I see even then that was wrong... sigh. I'd rather know I'm just wrong at least rather than the game bugging out. That being said at least I know to turn off pirahna strike against these mfers

[Mauman]

Originally posted by Hobocop:

Sadly, Brilliant Energy only ignores armor and shield bonuses. All other AC bonuses, including natural armor which demons notoriously have bucketloads of, still apply.

except the one brilliant energy weapon I have is NOT ignoring armor and shields. It is however, happy to be still useless on undead/constructs (grumble grumble).

Don't why it's bugged though...I've seen pictures of others having the effect work.