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yzl
23-08-2005, 18:17
Hello everyone!

I got a wired problem. When I play on TCP/IP with my single character, my Sanctuary shield is not visible on other players' game screen, and it does not have any effect either when dueling (e.g. does not block any attack). I found that the shield becomes visible and effective to other players if I increase my total str to a level way above its requirement instead of having just enough str. The interesting thing is that the shield is visible to me all the time and there is no problem with PvM (the shield blocks the monsters' attack, and I think they can see it too :) ).

Im using a sorc and the shield requires 106 str. my base str is 89 and total str is 106 (str added by shako and annihilus). My total dex is 216 which gives me 60% chance of blocking. Other players can only see it if I put enigma on as it adds 74 to my str.

If this is a bug, it is a pretty serious one, could anyone confirm this please?
RTB
23-08-2005, 19:32
The shield is still there, giving boni, and a chance to block. The fact that other players can't see it doesn't change that. The reason it's invisible is because of Annihilus btw, if you were to add +str equal or higher than the +attributes on it, other players will be able to see it again.
Orphan
24-08-2005, 00:51
It's more than just the Annihilus, it's any charm that gives +str or +dex. If you meet the required strength or dex through charms, then the item will not be visiable by other players. This applies to both armor and weapons.
yzl
24-08-2005, 01:51
Thanks for the replies. I was really confused and now Im clear. The reason why I thought it is not there is because the sound effect of blocking is disabled on the other player's screen as well, and enigma got way higher def that omrus, so im getting hit alot more with omrus and the invisible sanctuary, which make me think the shield has no blocking effect. The fact that the shield is still there got clear when I took it off and see how fast my char got killed :) .

Btw, why would blizzard make it like this? or is this an unintended behaviour?
Orphan
24-08-2005, 02:10
Btw, why would blizzard make it like this? or is this an unintended behaviour?

I don't think it was intentional. There's several slight bugs that have yet to be fixed by Blizzard, but they aren't really earth shattering :)