At this point, it looks like that despite what the patch notes say, the two piece tier 9 bonus is still not critting like a physical attack. [edit: thanks Frost!] It does work with mortal shots, however. Update for sep 24th: They did something last night- everything is now working properly. Serpent sting is now critting like a physical attack and getting the benefit from all the crit magnifiers.
I forgot to mention when I wrote this, however, that kill shot is now back to sharing a minimum range with all other ranged attacks.
Also, the promised abyssal shatter never made it into the patch notes or trainers.
It looks like it is working with mortal shots now — so that’s an increase. But yeah, my testing is showing that it’s still critting at spell base of 150% damage (plus mortal shots).
Still an improvment though.
The new leatherworking drums appear to be another trouble but aren’t. Their recipe shows them as having only 1 charge (not very useful) but when created the drums have 50 charges (useful).
Seems to me like setbonus is exactly the same damage as before, only addition i see is thats its working with Expose Weakness. but it still crits for the same damage for me
Yeah, the charges thing freaked me out when I first saw it. Mildly annoyed at the Serpent Sting buff fail (and majorly pissed that I just now found out about the Marked For Death/Glyph of Steady Shot bug which is STILL in place), but at least the Sting buff that IS in place made up for the ArPen nerf… well, for me at least.
when i went out doing my dialies today, i noticed something odd. My SS is now critting like it should :O average unbuffed it ticks for 560 and crits for just around 1300
I’ll do some more digging- thanks for the tip!
that sucks about kill shot, that was the best thing in arenas :)