0.77 BUG: Maul / Berserker's Axe broken

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Maul gives you continous attacks at -3 accuracy each until you miss. This has 2 bugs:

1. when combined with poison, if the first strike lowers the enemy to 1HP and then the poison finishes them off, a second strike will be attempted against their corpse and the game will hang.

2. My accuracy is 137. I have over 99% chance to hit most enemies. I tried over 50 attacks (I counted) every single time without exception the first attack hits and the second is dodged. I believe the -3 to accuracy is implemented incorrectly.

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

On my computer, i can actually see the accuracy drop from about 96-99% chance to hit on first swing, to 0 % chance for the second.  It's bugged for sure. (Or maybe an annoyed member of Stardock got tired of all the posts saying "Nerf Maul!!!!!1!!!one!!11!", and this was done intentionally?  Is Maul now WAI?)

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

Odd, i've been getting my 4-5 hits usually with maul weapons.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

hmmm, so the bug is only hitting some systems?  I'm on patch .77, and it was affecting one of my heroes, i think he has a butchers sword, and also any enemies I ran across with Maul, I believe they all miss after the first swing (if not ALl of them, than most).

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

With an accuracy of 70 I hit between 1 and 3 times.  It is going down by a lot more then 3.

 

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

I'm curious if anyone else can actually see their tooltip update between swings, to see how much the percentage is dropping by (and I know the percentage is based off of the accuracy stat, but it won't correlate directly, just curious if this can be seen)?  I wish I had thought to check for this during patch .76, when my guy with maul could sometimes, on big, big enemies, hit about 20 times (no joke).  Unfortunately,  only thought to look at that little stat box during .77. 

 

Maybe if I take my laptop back from my mother, I can install the game on my laptop and see if Maul works right.... that would be quite weird...

 

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Reply #6 from Elemental Forums Top

On .77 I get 2 hits max by a high-level hero with good accuracy.  In .75 + Brad's Friday slipstream, comparable heroes were often getting 5 or more, once 8.  So it seems to work but .77 seems to nerf it more than the documented change from -3 accuracy to -4.

Reply #7 from Elemental Forums Top

On 0.77 I never hit more than once (the first swing) with maul.

Reply #8 from Elemental Forums Top

There are a few bears whose acquaintance I have made in .77 who don't agree with this bug report, but they admit that they are not axes. Just giant angry bears.

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Reply #9 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting TheOtherHorseman, reply 8
There are a few bears whose acquaintance I have made in .77 who don't agree with this bug report, but they admit that they are not axes. Just giant angry bears.

HAHAHAHA! Funny shit. That aside, I did not encounter this bug. I was both at the recieving end of a rediculous 5 hit maul stream from a butcher and the issuing end with a rediculous champion equiped with the ..sword? I think.

Reply #10 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting TheOtherHorseman, reply 8
There are a few bears whose acquaintance I have made in .77 who don't agree with this bug report, but they admit that they are not axes. Just giant angry bears.

When fighting the elemental lord saurog while still weak (or later on when stronger) he never managed to hit me with a second strike of maul...

He did somehow knock me prone all the time (while I was low level) with maul causing it to skip my turn even though I have 3 different sources of immunity to being knocked prone.