Skald bonuses bugged.

[Player#2201]

Bonuses from inspired rage and lethal stance aren't being added to melee attack (on the skald or those that accept rage), and the max bonus to damage is capped at +3 for some reason.

[Babbles]

Do you have a pic of the combat log?

[elbentzo]

Originally posted by Player#2201:

Bonuses from inspired rage and lethal stance aren't being added to melee attack (on the skald or those that accept rage), and the max bonus to damage is capped at +3 for some reason.

Bump. It seems if I start rage song while in combat, no party member actually recieves any bonus in the combat log, despite having ``accept rage" activated. If I start before the fight begins, it seems to be working fine.

[Valdacil]

I will have to look closer at my combat log, but I did come to the forums looking for oddities I've found... So it seems to be partially working.

Party main is Barbarian [Instinctual Warrior]/Shifter [Fiendflesh] (yeah, it's Gestalt). I also made Wenduag a Barbarian [Beastkin Berserker] and have a Skald [Demon Dancer] merc. So normally the main has 2 claws from Shifter. If I activate the Fiendish Aspect I also get a Gore attack. When Inspire Rage is active, due to Demon Dancer the main also has a Bite for 4 attacks. This all seems to work, but I hadn't noticed whether the attack bonuses are there. Wenduag has unarmed strikes, but gains 2 Claws (from Beast Totem) when raging. When she has Inspired Rage she has 3 attacks (2 Claws and 1 Bite).

So all that seems to be working... what isn't... I took Lethal Stance on the main. When she accepts Inspired Rage, it deactivates Lethal Stance and greys it out as unusable. When Wenduag is raging she's supposed to wildshape to Wolf. That ability shows active during Inspire Rage, but she doesn't wildshape. Now that one I can see is potentially tied to her Barbarian rage, but Inspire Rage is supposed to activate all Rage abilities for those that accept it.

[Valdacil]

I have confirmed that the Att/Dmg bonuses from Inspired Rage are not applying to either the Skald or party members. They are receiving the Rage Powers since they get the claw and bite attacks, but combat log shows no Inspired Rage Att or Dmg bonus on either Skald or anyone who accepted the rage.

I submitted via Alt+B tonight.

[Valdacil]

Quick search of the forums and there was a lot of hubbub about Skalds when the game first came out, then again in Apr 2022, then after Treasures DLC, and now again. How is this broken still? Or just as bad, how does Owlcat keep breaking this core function of the class? In theory it didn't work to begin with, was fixed and broken again at least 3 times.

This is completely ruining my Demon playthrough as it is wasting the main feature of Skald.

[Valdacil]

What's funny is that I ended up deciding not to do Skald/Shifter, so switched to Skald [Demon Dancer]/Bloodrager [Primalist]. It worked, but I also have a Bard [Beast Tamer] in the group and wanted more animal companions for their song (which only affects the Bard, summons, and allied pets... I thought it affected all Natural Attacks so would affect party members doing claw/bite... not so much unfortunately). Anyway, before I respecced again, I tested out that Skald/Bloodrager and party members received like a +3 or +4 bonus to attack and damage instead of +1. No I've respecced to Skald [Demon Dancer]/Barbarian [Mad Dog] and the attack and damage bonus are not present again. (as described above).

[juzam_djinn_fr]

Same here, Inspired rage buff appear among buffs icons but no bonuses are provided.
It still share other rage effects like reckless stance properly

[Mezzanine]

It's just they for whatever silly reason changed it in recent updates, so now you have to actually 'activate' the rage stance after every rest. It works fine, everything applies dandy, but you have to turn it on.

[elbentzo]

Originally posted by Mezzanine:

It's just they for whatever silly reason changed it in recent updates, so now you have to actually 'activate' the rage stance after every rest. It works fine, everything applies dandy, but you have to turn it on.

Not true. The basic inspire rage buff (not the additional stance powers) does not give a bonus if you activate it midway through the fight.

[Mezzanine]

It's working just fine in my game, i can see it in logs (halfway or not).

[elbentzo]

Originally posted by Mezzanine:

It's working just fine in my game, i can see it in logs (halfway or not).

OK. And this is a thread of other players who look at their logs and see the bonus NOT being added. Do you believe that if a bug doesn't present itself in your game then it doesn't exist?

[elbentzo]

Originally posted by Babbles:

Do you have a pic of the combat log?

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2953005514
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2953005795

[Mezzanine]

I must concede, you were right. I guess what threw me away a bit is that it works fine in the early game, and yes i mean the rage bonuses, but sometime when you get your first stance power it seems to stops working. More testing needed to figure out where exactly. The rage cloak that you get in act 4 does work, adding untyped bonus.

Apologies for being annoying.

[Babbles]

Originally posted by elbentzo:

Originally posted by Babbles:

Do you have a pic of the combat log?

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2953005514
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2953005795

Right - a new class in an Owlcat game. Other than the obvious answer of 'Owlcatitis' - Ulbrig doesn't have an existing stance of his own, does he? because they NO LONGER stack.

[Babbles]

I think I have found the issue:

The Stance bonus is applied twice to the initial rager:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2953320315

No one else gets the Inspired Rage, they still get the Stance though, it is NOT locked to +3:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2953320613