Bug regarding "At the start of combat, Summon another identical hound" on non-hounds (Stranger, fractured aspect)
- A hound is spawned.
- But the combat log uses the name of the original follower for attacks and the deletion after combat ends.
- So there is some kind of bug.
Tested example: Hound + Swarming Stranger (with hound trait)
- This generates 1 faith while highlighting the Stranger and 3 faith while highlighting the Hounds.
- (Both actions do not create a combat log entry for faith gained. So there might be another bug. But I checked that the displayed values for faith gained were actually added.)
- With an Obelisk in the middle this is changed to 1+1 (Stranger) and 5+5 (two of the five Hounds).
- So the name-specific mechanic seems to work correctly and the combat log is simply using the wrong name.
Thoughts:
- Spawning an actual hound makes interactions with other abilities more interesting: "all followers unique", "followers with same name"
- But then the ability's description is wrong and should be corrected:
- "another" when it is the first … "identical" when it in fact has a different name …
- However, a corrected description might be too long.
- Changing the ability to create a copy instead of a hound could be a simplifying solution. But then this special ability would loose its uniqueness and simply become a variant of Mirroring Aspect.