Edit: Additional details appended at the end of the issue due to @STAFF_Ethan improperly dismissing it. No hard feelings, and I respect all you have done for myself and the community in the past, but you have misunderstood the issue in this thread.
@STAFF_Ethan The issue has nothing to do with anything you mentioned. The issue concerns monsters becoming unresponsive and permanently stuck—not moving, not attacking, and not doing anything at all because of the bug surrounding how converted monsters do not refresh their target after a successful conversion.
Fellow Paladins: please bump this topic by posting your experiences with this issue—videos are especially welcome and I will add them to the original post with credits. There are a ton of bugs with Conversion, but let’s finally get at least this one issue with it fixed.
Original post:
This bug has existed as long as the Paladin has, and it seriously needs addressed. This isn’t Beta anymore and there are no excuses for long neglected and ignored issues like this, especially when they have been reported before. I came back after a hiatus to see if the character is playable yet by this bug being addressed and, lo, it is not. Of course. IMC, this is the reason myself and a lot of other players have abandoned you. Fix your bugs.
Bug Description: The Paladin skill “Conversion” can result in converted enemies becoming “locked” in place, unable to perform any actions. This issue occurs when an already friendly converted enemy (henceforth to be known as your “minion”) engages with the enemy you are attempting to convert. If you successfully convert an enemy while it holds aggro to your minion then both minions will forever be unresponsive. This is because both minions have lost the ability to fight their target, but still hold aggro to each other. As the target is no longer hostile, but the minions are engaged with each other, nothing happens and the minions will not follow around the map, change targets or attack anything at all, etc. etc. This is proven because when you are able to lure hostile enemies to your locked minions, and kill one of your minions in this manner, then the other one will finally become responsive as their “target” has died.
This is an especially troublesome bug when your build is centralized around building an army. If your other minions engage before you can convert the enemy, then you must stop everything and not attack lest your entire team become frozen.
Steps to reproduce the issue :
- Successfully convert an enemy. This will be called your “minion.”
- Allow your minion to aggro an enemy.
- Attempt to convert the enemy that your minion has mutual aggro with.
- If the conversion is successful, note that both of your minions are now “stuck” and will not follow you around, attack, or be otherwise responsive in any fashion toward you or their surroundings. They are locked into battle with each other but, because they are friendly to each other, they cannot resolve the battle state.
Expected Result: Successful conversions reset all current aggro flags. After the conversion has been completed, all targets are dropped/cleared and all “enemies” who are engaged with the newly converted monster also have their targets cleared. This prevents minions from becoming “locked” who are actively engaged, but also prevents a similar reaction from newly converted enemies as they will also disengage any targets they once had—mutual disengagement. Additionally, all minion damage and hits should count toward the Conversion process and be counted as the player’s damage as it does already in other areas of the game. (Boss fights etc.)
Edit: Step-by-step video reproduction with live descriptions of the steps and symptoms. Additional proof at the end of the video confirming the issue to be due to improper combat flags being attributed to monsters now defined as allies.
Video reproduction provided by @Ayalon within this thread.
Video reproduction by @mrshadowccg from an earlier submission of this issue.
Notable quotes FROM OVER A YEAR AGO THAT STILL APPLY:
Here are some other and more recent snippets.
Ask ANY Paladin about Conversion and their reply will contain the fact that it is completely buggy. This particular issue, though, is one of the most annoying of all of the bugs relating to Conversion because it can take hours to set up your minions, and it only takes seconds for them to become all frozen forever because of this bug, making your entire time investment wasted.
