CharWS
commented
2 years ago The reason those abilities may not be reduced would be that they're non NPC sourced damage, spectral blast is environmental, and burn is sourced to blaze. Weird interactions for this kind of behavior were present in 2009 as can be noted by such threads as https://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/640913-Pet-during-Sarth-D regarding Sartharion Flame Walls which are also environmentally sourced damage and not effected by aoe reductions.
1. Current Behavior
1.1. Hunter pets avoidance is not working as intended, some aoe abilities are not being mitigated by the correct amount.
1.2. How to Reproduce
1.3 Source Material
Using a ptr swp log from the 22nd of august which i believe is one build behind current build: https://classic.warcraftlogs.com/reports/hQtDZVPdm34HnXf1 Kalecgos spectral blast and arcane buffet are being mitigated by 32% to 77%
Eredar twins Burn (blaze) is getting as low as 1.5% mitigated
And up to 17% in this log
2. Expected Behavior
2.1. Description
Hunter pets take 90% less damage from area-of-effect abilities like all other class pets.
2.2 Source Material
Patch changes World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King [Patch 3.3.0] This talent has been replaced by Culling the Herd. Hunter pets now innately take 90% less damage from area-of-effect abilities like all other class pets. This does not apply to area-of-effect damage caused by other players.
Please note: I have checked multiple naxx/maly/sarth logs and have not yet found a log with a aoe ability not being mitigated by avoidance correctly