wow Passenger Mounts Make Players Take Much More and Do Less Damage

[Starym 3,800]

 

There's a very interesting bug going around with the Chauffeured Chopper and seemingly other NPC-equipped mounts, as players have been receiving a LOT more damage while riding them! Luckily it's not related to max level characters, but it's fascinating nonetheless, so let's dive in.

There have been a few posts surrounding this in the community, as players noticed getting double to 10-20x more damage and more while riding the chopper mount. This didn't get much attention, but then Hetric came in with some video proof:

As you can see, the attacks go from doing the expected 5-ish damage, to a SLIGHTLY higher 100-120! Several other players chimed in to say that it's not just a chopper bug, but that they've also experienced it with other mounts, citing the Reins of the Grand Expedition Yak, which also has NPCs on it. In fact, it seems it's any passenger-related mount (excluding Dragonriding mounts, as they have separate mechanics), as even the Sandstone Drake is affected!

But that's not all, as you'll also be doing a lot less damage when you start casing while mounted on such mounts! This bug is even weirder, as the damage will be shown as normal over the mob, but will do a lot less actual damage to it:

It seems there's some bug happening related to the scaling of the NPCs, and possibly Chromie Time-Related as well, since it doesn't appear work with max level characters and it also doesn't work on Exile's Reach. Etamalgren tried to get into the details:

I think it could be one of two things: 1: The game sees that the mob is "L60" [as all mobs scale up to that level in Chromie Time, except on Exile's Reach, since you can't enter Chromie Time there], and treats the player as being "L40", since they're being driven around by their Chauffeur, who only scales up in level to 40. [...except this theory might not be entirely right, since the multiplier for increased damage seems to go down as the player levels their character, since a L1 gets hit for ~28.25x damage, the L8/9 got hit for ~14.23x damage, and the L20 got hit for only ~3.85x damage.] 2: The game is treating the player as a mob when sitting in the passenger seat of the chauffeured mechano-hog, and for some reason considering incoming attacks as player attacks. EDIT 2: After further testing, this bug applies to any mount that can carry passengers (Traveler's Tundra Mammoth, Grand Black War Mammoth, Grand Ice Mammoth, Grand Expedition Yak, Longboi...)

 

The specific trigger and details of how the bug works are unclear, but you may want to avoid mounts with NPCs on them (and even the Sandstone Drake) if you don't want to get destroyed!

[Soulebreaker 2]

That must've been what happened with my Monk. I thought it was a spiked damage bug with the mobs maybe. Didn't relate it to the mount.