Legion

WotLK MoP Legion

I am not a monk main by any means, but I assume that Stagger should work the following way:

• You get hit by a Physical attack (for simplicity)
• 40% of that damage is absorbed, and you get a dot for the same amount
• the dot ticks every half second for 10 seconds, each time for about 1/20th of the total absorbed amount
• if you get hit again, while still having some ticks left from the previous Stagger, the sum of the remaining and the new are what determine the value of the newly applied (with 10s duration) dot

Currently when you are hit by a Pinerock Stalker (99481), your stagger goes crazy, refreshing and increasing itself for a way longer time than it should be existing. After a while it stops refreshing and it runs out.
The total damage received from this stagger is way more than what the initial absorb was. For example 39,870 damage taken total, from a Pinerock Stalker Melee hit You 5,352 Physical. (3,568 Absorbed). (All values are from combat log)
Video of this specific occasion: https://youtu.be/YC0fhXi4wu4 —> the duration was ~40 sec

I have no clue why this specific mob is breaking it, or what else could be doing this. Might even be a generic issue with Stagger (115069).

1. Go to a Pinerock Stalker (99481) in Highmountain, with a brewmaster monk
2. You can be on a flying mount too, this way it is easy to get hit once, then fly away and observe the stagger
3. Otherwise you can just kill the mob and observe the stagger after
4. It be doin some weird shit fr

Long video of me trying to reproduce with different mobs and talents: https://youtu.be/QQ0J1ErgDDY

Short video linked again in case you didn’t read the entire report: https://youtu.be/YC0fhXi4wu4