Is this a devastate glitch or is this supposed to happen?

[Orchids_Mantis]

Something I have noticed over the last few days while soloing: when fighting a number of enemies, if I use devastate on a weak mob, and the mob dies before devastate lands (so between when the animation starts and finishes) -and for some reason, damage is done during the devastate animation- then devastate fails to deal damage to the other mobs, but still goes into cool down. So the animation goes, but no damage is dealt to any enemy and no stun is cast, but the skill still acts like it has been cast and requires 15 seconds (also, sometimes the animation will go 2-3 times, preventing other skills from being used during that time).

I was just curious as to whether this was a glitch or if this was supposed to happen to make use of devastate more difficult.

[fireyair]

I'm guessing it's a glitch. If they wanted to make deva harder, they would increase the cooltime.



Peace:cool:

[hypergummi]

glitch..... i've had it happen to me in BR on full heath mobs

[Eternal_Doom]

Its happened to me too, but with Magic/Fire/Ice Blast

[yourmojo]

I'd say glitch...To get around it, press TAB when a monster's health is almost down. Use deva on the mobs with more health. The result is no glitch, and the weaker mobs will die anyway from the deva hit.

[Orchids_Mantis]

I know..I just like using devastate to finish off multiple enemies, so I weaken 3 or 4 at once then devastate...and frequently end up finding this problem of late (I didn't run across it so much before)