Spark + Shard of Power bug

**Yussef** · 12-20-2012, 07:38 PM

Description: If I have 2 sparks out and a Shard of power (giving both sparks 1 health) and a spark gets killed (at least by Borris ability) the second spark dies.
Platform: All
Version: 1.612
Steps to reproduce: Steps and/or requirements needed to reproduce this.

Pretty sure your code is reducing the health from one spark dying then counting it dead, rather then keeping the health at 1 from the shard of power the whole time.

**Demnchi** · 12-20-2012, 07:59 PM

While it sucks and I don't agree with this at all, its apparently the intended behavior and not a bug. =/

**Drizz'l** · 12-20-2012, 08:10 PM

I think it was left in to balance elemental rush decks back when the minimum deck size was 30. Not that shard was much better back then

Hopefully one day it will be fixed; the shard rush archtype is a really fun casual deck and isn't in the least bit broken for competitive play. Not to mention it really sucks when you first make a shard deck and have to see all your sparks unjustly die.

**Nizaris** · 12-20-2012, 11:11 PM

Btw, you have an old version. 1.7 is out.

**Yussef** · 12-22-2012, 09:42 PM

Originally Posted by Nizaris

Btw, you have an old version. 1.7 is out.

I know but when I log into client it says it is up to date (even though it is 1.6x). Am I doing it wrong?

**jiminee** · 12-22-2012, 10:29 PM

As far as I know, I think this is working as intended. Here's the comment from Kyle on the issue:

Won't Fix v1.308. Shard of Power

"reduces health to 1" which means when shard is cast all allies take enough damage until they are at 1 health (same for newly summoned allies). However this does not change their max health and they are free to be buffed as normal from that point on.

That's just the way I interpret it.

**Drizz'l** · 12-22-2012, 10:30 PM

Originally Posted by Yussef

I know but when I log into client it says it is up to date (even though it is 1.6x). Am I doing it wrong?

Yeah, you need to re-download and install the client. Doesn't take long and everything should be automatically overwritten.

**Erokk88** · 12-27-2012, 11:18 AM

Originally Posted by Yussef

Description: If I have 2 sparks out and a Shard of power (giving both sparks 1 health) and a spark gets killed (at least by Borris ability) the second spark dies.
Platform: All
Version: 1.612
Steps to reproduce: Steps and/or requirements needed to reproduce this.

Pretty sure your code is reducing the health from one spark dying then counting it dead, rather then keeping the health at 1 from the shard of power the whole time.

happened to me as well. Had 2 sparks out with shard. attacked with one spark, opponent defended, both sparks died. This is incorrect if we are to believe the wording as the shard was changed to say something along the lines of allies may have a maximum health of 1 (much to my chagrin, as the glass cannon decks were just about the only decks that could survive competitively, but thats a rant for another time).

Sparks get +1 attk and +1 def for every other spark in play. shard maxes the health at one (what sparks come with when played anyways) the def is unable to increase. therefore this would be a bug as there is no reason for anything to be subtracted, as nothing was added in the first place. needs to be fixed or better yet change shard back to "reduce to 1" rather than "max of 1" to make the dang card playable again. Oher than MC, the elementals are pretty squishy and have more worthless cards imo than the other heroes. (can a brotha get some anti-mage cards?)

**Nizaris** · 12-27-2012, 06:52 PM

This is not a bug, which has been explained why in many, many threads. When the one Spark

leaves, he takes his one health with him. You capped his health at one with Shard, and the outcome should be expected.

**Drizz'l** · 12-27-2012, 07:12 PM

Originally Posted by Nizaris

This is not a bug, which has been explained why in many, many threads. When the one Spark

leaves, he takes his one health with him. You capped his health at one with Shard, and the outcome should be expected.

That's one line of logic, but it's not the only one. It could also be said that the wording of Shard caps the Sparks life at 1 so the others are unable to buff it past the base 1 life. When one leaves it takes the damage, but doesn't take the life it never gave.

It really comes down to how the design team chooses to rule it; some think the choice is to be expected others, I would argue most, find it surprising.