Bug #243

Light Assassin's S3 passive and Tree Mr Barbarian combo broken in Arena

Status:	Resolved
Priority:	High
Added by:	backwithcoffee on April 16, '25
Assigned to:	Unassigned
Due date:
Reported for:	1.6.10

Steps to Reproduce

1. Put Zeal and/or Protect Gear on the Light Assassin.
2. Bring him and Tree Mr Barbarian into Arena with 2 other monsters.
3. Previously this guaranteed first turn for your team assuming you didn't trigger an enemy attack bar boost, but now it is broken/changed/stealth nerfed.

Explanation

Light Assassin's S3 passive to gain attack bar on receiving buffs was broken recently. Previously when he used Zeal/Protect Gear he would give the team a starting ATB boost at the beginning of a battle. This could be paired with Tree Mr Barbarian to give your team the 1st turn despite a speed difference.

I've used this as my Arena offense for the last couple weeks but over the past couple days something changed. Without changing my team from how it was before I tried Arena yesterday and my team turn order was being cut-in by the faster enemy mons. I used this team during an arena rush previously and it worked perfectly, but now it is not working. I tried replicating it on my Arena Defense team and it just doesn't let the team go first anymore. There were no other attack bar boosting/reducing effects in play when I tried it on my Arena Defense test. Something is broken or was changed with either the Light Assassin or the Tree Mr Barbarian.

I don't know if it's a bug, something broke in a recent maintenance, or this was an undocumented balance change but I'd like to know something about it. It feels REALLY bad to have my only LD5 be broken or stealth nerfed.

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