Battlecry Efficiency and Bio-Engineers

[grysh]

Assuming I go down the middle bio-eng tree, what exactly would my battlecry(heal) benefit from battlecry efficiency?

[Aptos]

Assuming I go down the middle bio-eng tree, what exactly would my battlecry(heal) benefit from battlecry efficiency?


Battlecry efficiency reduces the combo meter cost of using your battlecry.

[grysh]

I thought it took 1 combo level regardless?

[Lymph 03]

I thought that too untill I used my heal battle cry (middle path) and it didn't take an entire level off me.

I checked my gear and sure enough I had 15% efficiency, which was about the ammount of my combo bar left after using hte heal (from maxed out level 3)

Good to have and the cap is at 50% so you could get of 6 heals instead of one, or 8 if your a human player or 10! if your human with a bezerker.

[grysh]

Ah very very cool, just gotta get the aesir armor for it now ;)

[Noven]

Battlecry efficiency runes currently do nothing. Lymph, are you a human path and had a hit counter built up for The Ever Burning Heart's efficiency bonus? That could be why you saw the reduction in cost. Myself and a few others have tested the runes here. (http://www.toohuman.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=1413)

[Lymph 03]

Battlecry efficiency runes currently do nothing. Lymph, are you a human path and had a hit counter built up for The Ever Burning Heart's efficiency bonus? That could be why you saw the reduction in cost. Myself and a few others have tested the runes here. (http://www.toohuman.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=1413)


No I'm cyber, and pretty sure it does because I didn't loose a combo level using the battle cry and im certain I didn't do enough combat to build it up that fast (instantly)

Unless it glitched (was online co-op) thats what it does. Haven't tested it but yeah, thats my experience with the efficiency effect.

[Noven]

Interesting, it's possible that it only works for certain battlecries or certain classes. For example, +battlecry damage only working for battlecries that state they buff your damage. I personally tested by building my combo meter to be maxed out at level five (human berserker) and put the runes on, hit the battlecry and it took me straight down to a max level four. Other people have also commented this happened to them. Some kind of official clarification on this would be nice to say the least.

[K1RB]

Ok, so, if I understand right, +battlecry damage should work on the right tree battle cry and efficiency is broken?

[Noven]

Battlecry efficiency was broken in my tests with my berserker, as well as others but Lymph had different results. Battlecry damage should work on the Bioengineer's right tree. A quick way to test this is to use a piece of gear with +battlecry damage runes that replace a piece of gear with no damage buffs. Take your character into Hall of Heroes, build up to combo level 1 and hit your battlecry without the +battlecry damage runes on, record your damage (it should be fairly consistent if you're hitting the same goblins) and then repeat the test with the +battlecry damage runes on.

[K1RB]

Its a shame my box is broke :evil: I'll have to put my hard drive on my brothers box and test it out.

[tep larson]

Confirming based on my tests today that battle cry efficiency runes do not reduce battle cry costs. ( I am middle path with the healing battle cry).

The human skill to reduce cost based on hit counter does work, so I am guessing its a coding error.

A shame its not working cause having heals cost only 75% of a combo level would be nice. (Have 5/7 set and so far only one piece has efficiency with 25% being the value)