Why the bug I wrote became a core gameplay mechanic?!
Chapter 288 - 297 More Perverted Ones Are Coming

Chapter 288: Chapter 297 More Perverted Ones Are Coming

The group searched the boss’s corpse, and seeing the purple equipment dropped by the raid’s gatekeeping boss, everyone’s face beamed with the joy of a bountiful harvest.

Obviously, at this moment, Gan Di had become the center of attention.

So he really could single-heal a 25-person raid!

One can only say, once "Starlight Illumination" was activated, it was simply heaven and earth shattering, one person’s healing output could match that of five others.

Since it was the server’s first kill, the moment the achievement popped up, all players on the server were instantly aware of it.

But ignoring the congratulatory messages and shock in various channels, the raid leader immediately asked with nervous urgency, "Gan Di! You’re not live streaming, are you?"

Gan Di didn’t understand why he was being asked this at first, but still nodded and said, "Oh, I’m not streaming today, planning to start when I play Shadow World tonight."

The raid leader instantly perked up, "Great! Make sure you don’t stream, and everyone else in the raid, don’t make a fuss about this!

"This is clearly a bug, we just use it secretly within the guild, definitely don’t let it get out!

"Anyway, let’s first take advantage of this bug to grab all the first kills in all the raids!"

Other team members felt the raid leader’s words were a bit presumptuous, "Not necessarily a bug, right? Maybe it’s some special encounter design?"

The raid leader slightly shook his head, "I’ve played Star Soul World for so long, how could I not recognize a bug? Let me put it this way, just think about the healing numbers for each Healer Profession, and you’ll understand that the officials would never support this kind of ’Infinite Starlight Illumination’ gameplay!

"Whatever the officials do not support, whether it’s a bug or a mechanic, if it’s a mechanic, in the end, it will still be defined as a bug!"

The group could not help but look at each other.

Indeed, one has to admit that the raid leader is an old player, and very aware of the Star Soul World operations team’s character.

Once the ’Infinite Starlight Healing’ method gets out, it is almost 100% certain that the officials will fix it, and then you can forget about experiencing such good fortune.

If it doesn’t get publicized, other teams won’t know about this method, and it might take a while before the officials notice it.

Perhaps they could ride on this bug to scoop up a few more first kills on bosses.

But Gan Di clearly did not agree with this point of view.

"I personally don’t think it’s necessary.

"Firstly, as the server’s first kill team, the officials will definitely access and review our backend data, and by then they will surely find my healing numbers abnormally high.

"Even if the officials don’t investigate, other players will eventually find the bug, because anyone who selects that Talent will notice that ’Starlight Illumination’ has its cooldown time unnaturally shortened."

Obviously, as a pure gamer, Gan Di never liked to hide things. When he discovered hidden mechanics in Nitiandang games before, he also shared them online with other gamers immediately.

But others raised another concern, "But if we spread the word, might the officials deem it as malicious dissemination of a bug? Then could they ban our accounts?"

Gan Di was startled, "That can’t be, right? Even if there’s a bug, at most they would just fix it, why would they ban us? Nitiandang doesn’t even bother fixing bugs!"

The raid leader was silent for a moment, "Gan Di, you might not be aware, if it were Nitiandang, they would probably turn a blind eye and let it slide as a mechanic, but... Shengjing is different.

"All I can say is, enjoy it while it lasts, now that we’ve used a bug to get the first kill, it doesn’t matter if we go for the second. Anyway, be prepared for a ban."

As everyone was discussing, a team member chimed in, "Raid leader, stop worrying about this stuff, there’s already a video online...

"Just search for the keywords ’Star Soul World – Infinite Starlight Healing’, and you’ll find it."

The group hastily took out their phones to search, and true enough, someone else had already discovered the bug and uploaded it to the internet!

Clearly, Gan Di discovered the bug quickly, but he wasn’t the only one.

This bug was not that difficult to stumble upon either. The test server for "World of Star Spirits" was pretty popular, and there were many players. After reaching max level, a lot of them researched builds, so it was perfectly normal for others to find it as well.

The good news was that Nitiandang and his team no longer had to worry about whether or not to share the bug with others.

Now it was first come, first served!

And even more exaggerated was that this wasn’t the only outrageous build out there.

Just by searching for keywords like "World of Star Spirits" and "Ascension Mode," one could find other videos. Although these videos weren’t particularly trending yet, it was evident that they were spreading at a tremendously fast rate!

"Team leader, look at this! There’s a DPS build called Dark Chain, it’s simply invincible!"

A team member exclaimed in surprise.

Everyone hurried to search the keywords and quickly discovered that this was a build as abnormally powerful as the "Infinite Starlight Healing," and it was for a DPS class!

The video creator named this build "Dark Chain," after a talent.

In the video, the creator first showcased their equipment, which was nothing special—just a set of ordinary blue gear.

However, standing before a training dummy in the main city, they casually cast a skill called "Split Lightning" and then, a miracle happened.

What was supposed to be a normal chain lightning turned into an unexpected explosion of dark series skills—there was Dark Fire, Dark Meteor, Dark Arrow...

These dark series skills almost instantaneously hit the group of dummies like a basin being dumped, and then a bunch of damage numbers exploded on the screen!

The damage figures were all quite impressive, generally ranging between three to five thousand.

As a result, when looking at the damage plugin’s statistics for burst damage per second, it reached a staggering eighty thousand!

This was an absolutely inconceivable number.

Keep in mind that a normal DPS class could do around eight or nine thousand burst DPS at this point and it would already be considered pretty good, yet this build’s burst damage could hit eighty thousand.

Of course, the video creator also explained that they couldn’t constantly maintain eighty thousand throughout an entire fight. If they fought for around five minutes, the burst DPS would drop to about eighteen thousand.

And that was under favorable conditions. If luck wasn’t on their side, it might drop to fifteen thousand.

Even if it was a single target, it would only be slightly higher than a normal build at eleven or twelve thousand.

But no matter how you looked at it, this level of output was already freakishly powerful!

The video creator was quite generous too, detailing the thought process behind the build directly in the video.

As the name implies, it revolved around the talent "Dark Chain."

This was originally a very common talent for the Dark series. Its effect was that whenever a player cast any dark spell, there was a chance to randomly trigger another dark spell.

It wasn’t considered particularly game-breaking. Indeed, some players would pick it in the standard version, but not many.

Most of the Dark series spells were single-target damage skills, with a significant variance in damage output. Some core abilities could crit for over ten thousand in a single hit, but most of the others looked like a circus trick, only dealing four or five hundred.

Worse yet, the additional dark series spells automatically triggered by the "Dark Chain" talent would consume one second of the player’s global cooldown, effectively locking them out of casting for a second.

This could disrupt the player’s skill chain and negatively affect their DPS rotation. So although it theoretically increased output, not many players used it.

But the video creator discovered an issue with this talent: it only triggered damaging skills that the player had already learned!

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