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Wierd Wheeljack bug [Not a Bug]
DrShotgun
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I just fought a duped 3/30 Wheeljack 4* against my 5/50 Prowl in an arena. He hit 76% and got stuck in a force shield loop. The shield would go down, he'd hit 75%, then go back to 76% He was in force shield mode about a dozen times or so before he finally took any damage. I think he had a heal buff going on. Maybe this is how it's supposed to work? If so...it's a little bit awesome of it's my guy.
Anyone else run across this?
Anyone else run across this?
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Will do that for the first minute, because it keeps repairing above 75% and triggering the shield over and over.
It's not a bug, just an interesting skill mechanic that catches lots of players off guard, particularly in raids.
Use Cheetor against him and you can bust through that shield loop early with feral strike and repair block on s1.
@Kabam Miike @Kabam Vydious
Nano repair is active for a max of 60 secs.
Well, if this is how it’s supposed to be, I may invest in nano repair.
It's slightly broken but, if anything, his sig shield should simply be given a cooldown of 1 or 2 seconds before it could trigger again, enough of a window to get in one hit and negate nano repair at each threshold. If this were done and you avoid getting hit in AM I see no problem with it.
There's enough bots that can override his shield, I don't think there's need for a Sig nerf already.
Cheetor
Scout Bee
Scream
OGMT (under certain circumstances)
Sideswipe s3 (I think)
Advantage? man you do realize everybody has been offrered one 4* WJ?
Any DOT bot can easily get through the shield. Burn him, bleed him, shock him and it’s like it was never there. So the list actually expands beyond the bots mentioned, but certainly wouldn’t call it an unfair advantage.
This really appears to be a bug or a unintended interaction, so I wouldn't call fixing it a nerf.
Unless one of the mods tells us this was the plan for him, I think it's a mistake that should be fixed.
As has been said, 60 seconds of invulnerability doesn't seem like it fits in the game.
You may have to work at getting him down the same way Ratchet might repair and you have to grind him down again. Same with Shockwave and his "Undo" you might have to grind him down again.
Thats a bot with great Sig playable as MV1 or similar.
As other says. With the right bot you got him down without any problem.
That game is meant to use the right bot on the right enemy. You have everytime an advantage with the right bot against an enemy.
By the way... There are guys (me too) that have allready invested much to level and forge him because of his Power (nerfed allready) and Sig abbilitys. So it would be unfair to nerf/change him again after the release.
So come on guys. Let him be.
Well,, you can't really that "60 sec of invulnerablity " ,why? The reason is explained a lot by many people here. And while using it for your own, who will you WJ against, Demos, I guess. The class whose bots are known for some serous DoTs, burn, dark burn, acid. And you realy won't be standing dummy to get hit, your gameplay will a good.
The place where you realy benefit is Raids. And it really don't give you a really unfair advantage
Thats exyctly the point why much guys are leveling and forging Wheel to the main Team. Thats a combination of Syn, Sig and Masteries... I don't see the problem?
If you will be attacked with bleed or similar you will be skipped the 75% as well.. so where is the problem to use the combinations of Masteries, Sigs and abilitys?
It's the timeout trick which needs attention. Why doesn't the time freeze when I click pause? Maybe it's a mechanism to prevent occupying the enemy indefinitely if you leave your game paused to join a long meeting with a client. But it's so often abused -- by a bot named Ratchet while nobody is complaining about that unfairness.
@Kabam Miike can you please check it up and tell us whats going on?
Thanks.
Say if you persist at 75% for a minute and took whatever life from the enemy. Pause out and start off at... 37.5%? The next shield is at 25%, if you can't manage to get two sp3 within a minute you cannot get back to 50% and things are getting messy. It's a gamble anyway.
no they don't. this "issue" is a bit exaggerated. nano repair at the highest level doesn't heal that much to where you would hit that loop for a full minute unless you were some how magically damaged right below 75% each time. If you play at a challenging AM level, the enemy bots will push you through that in no time. Sure you can get this "loop" a couple times in the fight if you did a sp3 heal but not for a full minute on repeat. The same with SP3.. you not going to earn a full Sp3 in 8 secs to do this on repeat. We're more likely to encounter this against a NPC WJ due to a mod enhancement not by a player to use in an AM
On what Voltron said: Wheeljack's force shield will CAP all damage at 75/50/25% except for direct or DOT effects during its active time (exceptions being repair-block and the despair mastery on a non-damage debuff, which seems to shut it down just enough that you can bypass it). He is right that it's not that abusable by a player, and is exaggerated in terms of AM, because a lot of AM missions have DOT punishment mods (shock block, melee bleed, just being bots with DOT).
You must not have encountered it. Those who have understand.
yeah you're right.. this whole month, I have yet to fight a WJ in the any of the missions and arenas
lol...because Kabam turns off masteries for Arenas. you clearly only read what you want to see...now that is simple