Dawn of Light

Does anyone know how the Mauler Power Taps are supposed to work? (For level 10 FW style Heart Stopper and lvl 10 Staff style Cinder Strike.)

1. Should the power tap damage the target?
2. Should the power tap return power to the user based on the melee damage? Or the power tap damage?
3. Should the power tap remove (steal) the power from the target?
4. If power is stolen from the target, and the target is a GamePlayer, should it be restricted to stealing no more power than the target currently has?

There is currently a StylePowerDrain spell handler which returns power to the user based on the power tap damage, so it returns 0 power since the power tap spell is set to 0 damage. It also does not "steal" the power from the target, it simply adds it to the user.

As far as i remember with my live mauler:

Power tap are adding some mana, iirc a fixed value (dunno if % or constant); they do not steal the mana, and the mana is not related to damages done.

But i'm not sure, a test is need i think

I think mauler is supposed to add a fixed (small?) amount of power any time they hit or get hit. But they also have a style with a Power Tap, which I think is supposed to be related to the style damage.

no......its Power Tap is basically consistent to Necros power tap

<dmg vaule (damagaes the target a.k 25 for both lvl 10 MStaff / FWraps)> and 50% of dmg dealt is returned in power

Maulers gain power from being attacked and that was working last I played my mauler (well to a point it works, misses gain power on Storm which I am not sure if that is live like or not). Which is different from Vamps who gain power from attacking.

The maulers only means to gain power when not being attacked is through their styles (specifically cinderstrike and heartstopper) and spell which haven't been working since an adjustment so they don't do damage that wasn't neccesarily what broke it but that was when the issue started.

How the power return from the styles should be calculated I don't know, wish I did.

It's difficult to figure out how to proceed without having complete information, but if the mauler styles are as broken on Storm as they were on my server then I think at least some sort of change should be done.

Here's how my server was:
The lvl 10 power tap styles had a StylePowerDrain proc that gave the caster Spell.LifeDrainReturn % of the damage caused by the spell. However, the spell entry in the db had damage set to 0, so the proc did absolutely nothing - no power gain, no damage.

Here's how it is now:
I implemented a StylePowerTap proc that gives the caster Spell.LifeDrainReturn % of the damage caused by the melee attack. So the proc does no additional damage, it just gives power to the caster based on the weapon damage. The power is not drained from the enemy.

Should I commit this to SVN? Should I replace the StylePowerDrain implementation with mine? (I didn't see any other styles using the StylePowerDrain spellhandler, so functionally this would work, but I think StylePowerTap is a better name as "Drain" indicates it's stealing from the target and the Camelot Herald describes the mauler style effect as "Power Tap").

the proc for both Lvl 10 Fist wrap and Mauler staff should in fact do 25damage and a 50% return in power by the dmg that spell does so example:

the proc does 50damage to the target 50% is returned to power (25power)

Perhaps this is why they are reported at not working.

I never had a look on it, except for quickly replacing entries in the db. Feel free to do this when you have a reliable information, and simply tell us the used fields.