Act 4 Constant Frightful Aspect?

[Chester]

Working my way through Act 4 and now every encounter I begin, every character (enemy and ally) has to pass a Frightful Aspect check at the beginning of each round with a really high check (38). I have not cast this spell and neither has my enemy. With the high check, basically everybody is shaken at the start of every fight if they're not immune, and then they are frightened by next round. I don't know why this is happening, can anybody tell me what I'm missing? Is there something inherent to the areas in Act 4? Is there an item in my inventory doing it that I overlooked? Is there a spell that features it as a secondary effect that I misread? Is it a bug?

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by chester.longdon:

Working my way through Act 4 and now every encounter I begin, every character (enemy and ally) has to pass a Frightful Aspect check at the beginning of each round with a really high check (38). I have not cast this spell and neither has my enemy. With the high check, basically everybody is shaken at the start of every fight if they're not immune, and then they are frightened by next round. I don't know why this is happening, can anybody tell me what I'm missing? Is there something inherent to the areas in Act 4? Is there an item in my inventory doing it that I overlooked? Is there a spell that features it as a secondary effect that I misread? Is it a bug?

Aivu?

You might want to check your equipment as well. Something which affects everyone can be one of those cursed relic drawbacks.

[Flavalicious]

Its a cloak you picked up off the body of a certain powerful undead dude you probably killed recently. Read the description very slowly, I ran into the same problem, turns out i didnt read before i equipped it :D

[Chester]

Ah, thanks. Not sure which undead dude you're talking about (maybe spoiler tag me) but I'll take a look.

[Flavalicious]

Originally posted by chester.longdon:

Ah, thanks. Not sure which undead dude you're talking about (maybe spoiler tag me) but I'll take a look.

Theres a lich in the magical dungeon area in the later part of Act 4 that has a lich that drops a cloak called Cloak of the dead or some ♥♥♥♥ like that. Its a +5 resistance cloak with a passive AOE fear effect, the item description says all enemies, but i think its bugged and affects everyone in a 60 foot bubble. When i started combat after equipping it id have enemies running all over the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ map and my companions chasing them all over the place, was a huge mess until i figured it out. lol

If its not that then i dunno. There are some traps in the game that pulse a fear effect, but it shouldnt be affecting enemies too then thats not likely to be it.

[seeker1]

Aivu gives off a Frightful Presence aura. P.S. it's annoying as crap after a while, I feel your pain, because especially on small encounter maps, enemies run so far they go off the edge of the map. All from that tiny dragon. They can be so far "over the edge" they can't be looted when they die.

If you don't have Aivu, check the properties of some of your items.

[Chester]

Looked into it, it was Aivu (I'm on Azata Path, should've specified). She got bigger in Act 4 and got some new abilities. With that 38 check rate it's incredibly effective - unfortunately, it's effective on my people too. I don't suppose there's any way to direct it at the enemy, is there? Casting Frightful Aspect on my own people typically focuses the shaken aura exclusively on enemies as I recall. Should I report this as a bug?

[jsaving]

It's not a bug, but rather a manifestation of the chaos you choose to embrace by going azata over angel. Would be great if Owlcat gives us a toggle though as I would love to deactivate it!