Death Talon Wyrmguard, Death Talon Overseer and Chromaggus in BWL all have permanent -75% Holy spell school damage shield

[theloras]

Posting again here in the new Lightshope GitHub as I had copied from before:

theloras commented 18 days ago • edited Original bug report back on Elysium - https://github.com/elysium-project/server/issues/422

But thanks to Domogenocide...we now have NEW EVIDENCE FROM RETAIL VANILLA!!!

Chromaggus - Time Lapse IZDD TD Alexstrasza Germany Published on Mar 25, 2006 https://youtu.be/uKEhgE7J7UY?t=546

Hammer of Wrath Rank 3 425 mana 30 yd range 1 sec cast Hurls a hammer that strikes an enemy for 504 to 557 Holy damage. Only usable on enemies that have 20% or less health. http://db.vanillagaming.org/?spell=24239

Mouse-over showing Hammer of Wrath tooltip says 504 to 556: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/314490105949585408/383038683646787594/2017-11-22_4.png

Hammer of Wrath hits for what appears to be 395 Holy damage https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/314490105949585408/383036978536382464/HoW_Chrommagus_Vanilla.jpg

With a permanent -75% Holy damage aura in effect, this Paladin's Hammer of Wrath damage would have only been from 126-139 (based on 504 x 0.25 and 556 x 0.25).

The Hammer of Wrath damage would appear to be a 25% partial resist (378 to 417) given the tooltip damage range shown listed:

504 x 0.75 = 378 556 x 0.75 = 417

theloras commented 18 days ago Yea, Domo got a Me-Wow today!

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theloras commented 18 days ago also as a refresher from the original bug report

SOURCES "Skin Shimmering: Chromaggus will shimmer and change his resistances to 4 out of 5 schools of magic damage."

4 out of 5 of the following schools of magic which are Arcane, Fire, Frost, Nature or Shadow but NOT HOLY. http://web.archive.org/web/20060627060941/http://www.gotwarcraft.com/Raid%20Instances/bwl/chromaggus_guide.php

[GuybrushGit]

That number could easily be 195 + there's videos from cata where holy damage is being reduced.

[theloras]

I'll repeat here:

With a permanent -75% Holy damage aura in effect, this Paladin's Hammer of Wrath damage would have only been from 126-139 (based on 504 x 0.25 and 556 x 0.25).

195 doesn't fit within the -75% permanent aura but a 25% partial resist does for 395.

You even said as much yourself in your post for the Stratholme Holy Water bug report - the math has to fit - and 195 doesn't.

[theloras]

OK, so in the interest of transparency here, I spent some time this weekend looking for old Vanilla era videos showing a Paladin using either their Seal, Consecration or Hammer of Wrath against Chromaggus - alas most of the videos either don't show a Paladin PoV at all or at best the ones with Paladin PoV just stand wearing dresses spamming their cleanse buttons:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEyus4efIkM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UN3lC-wqPKM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWb_bTSE9s4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twkL4onNok4

But in this clip, we can finally see a Paladin using Hammer of Wrath against Chromaggus:

Disorder kills Chromaggus Published on Nov 16, 2007 https://youtu.be/UFpaSVaf_ps?t=283 "This is an old video from my old WoW guild where we kill Chromaggus."

but I'm not 100% sure on the dmg that HoW lands for - here's a screensot - is it 132 or 432?

He throws Hammer of Wrath a few more times but unfortunately his UI covers up the dmg when it lands

[GuybrushGit]

It really looks like 132, don't see how that can be a 4:

[theloras]

possibly, but in the previous video, I likewise don't know how it could be 195 as the damage range doesn't fit for a permanent -75% dmg reduction aura by the boss

we seem to have two vanilla era videos that rather than confirm either one of our theories, actually work against one another

/boggle