Reflection kills should award experience and piety.


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Ziggurat Zagger

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Post Friday, 9th June 2017, 04:03

Reflection kills should award experience and piety.

I know it's hard to implement this without letting them break god conducts, but it's really stupid that you get no piety from reflection kills. I would rather wear nothing than a reflection amulet because of this. If it's impossible to implement reflection properly then it should be removed instead of leaving it in half-finished.

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Post Friday, 9th June 2017, 05:25

Re: Reflection kills should award experience and piety.

I never actually realized this was the case with reflection.

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Post Wednesday, 21st June 2017, 14:48

Re: Reflection kills should award experience and piety.

Agree.

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Post Wednesday, 21st June 2017, 14:57

Re: Reflection kills should award experience and piety.

You get "X is killed" message if you reflect a normal projectile, but "You kill X" if you reflect a spell. I don't know if this matters for exp/piety though.

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Post Wednesday, 21st June 2017, 15:37

Re: Reflection kills should award experience and piety.

So it looks like I was wrong about xp - reflection creates inconsistent messaging but always credits and awards XP properly as far as I can tell. My apologies for that. However, it does not work with piety. Here are the relevant examples:
- Player reflects a launched or thrown missile. They get full XP credit for the damage and kill, but if the missile kills a monster, they receive no piety.
- Player reflects an iron shot, orb of destruction, or lightning bolt (with Warlock's Mirror). Reflection works correctly, awarding full XP and piety.
- Player reflects a poison arrow. They get full XP credit for the damage and kill. They get piety if the poison arrow kills a monster with the impact damage, but if the resulting poison kills a monster, they receive no piety for the kill.
- Player reflects a damaging "hex" bolt (such as Disintegrate) with Warlock's Mirror. They get full XP credit for the damage and kill, but if the "hex" bolt kills a monster, they receive no piety.

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Post Wednesday, 21st June 2017, 15:50

Re: Reflection kills should award experience and piety.

50% xp from collateral kills is still better than nothing.

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Post Thursday, 25th October 2018, 17:30

Re: Reflection kills should award experience and piety.

This bug is still present.

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