I just fought an arena team with Palp lead, Nihilus, Sion, DRevan, and BSF.
Short story is I landed fear on Nihilus, so he loses a turn. Then his turn comes around again, he uses Drain Force. (I had CBM or Ferocity on everybody so it worked on everybody. Then his very next turn he annihilates. Now, correct me if I’m wrong, but that’s only 7 cooldowns removed, not 8. One for his lost turn, then 5 for Drain Force plus the one for the turn he used Drain Force. Annihilate’s cooldown is 8. So, what am I missing?
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It’s extraordinarily frustrating, especially when taunt is off SiTrooper and boom I’m suddenly short a DRevan in what seems to be one turn ahead.
Data tracking.
What does CBM have to do with it?
I thought CBM was supposed to prevent her from applying CBM - but maybe not as its not a used ability and its passive?
Correct, CBM doesn't prevent CBM. Fear also doesn't prevent CBM afaik.
That's how cooldown works, is it not? Look at Sabine's special (with CD 2), you can use that every other turn.
If he didn't could you be missing a turn? DN gets 10% everytime Sion/Traya are debuffed, and SE teams throw out alot of debuffs
I use this on my Arena team to Annihilate against DR teams the EXACT same way you described.
Any or all of misinformation around these facts may be causing confusion, but most importantly:
Nihilus isn't bugged. Whatever is happening is supposed to be happening, even if the interaction is difficult to deduce.
Your math doesn't add up. You remove CD when his turn ends and then when his next turn comes, you remove CD again. It's not how the mechanic works.
Battle begins. 8 turns CD on annihilate. Fear is applied. Nih misses turn. Next turn comes on, he has 7 CD on his ability. He uses Drain Force, reducing the cooldown from 7 to 2. His turn ends which means -1 CD on annihilate. His next turn comes. He has 1 CD left on his annihilate.
Same goes for Sabine. She gets a turn. She use Darksaber Strike. Her turn ends, reducing her cooldown from 2 to 1. Her next turn comes. She has 1 CD on her special.
OP - did you use both DR's aoe fear and BSF fear? Since Nihil gains TM when Sion/Traya is inflicted with a debuff, it's very possible that the battle went like that -> You use DR and fear everyone, Nihil gets TM and his turn is over(it happens fast so you might miss it), then you use fear with BSF -> Nihil once again has fear, but you also applied a lot of debuffs again, meaning he got TM once more. This might make it look as if it's still his first turn, when it's actually his second one.
No, I specifically didn’t use Fear from my DR because I had CBM so it wouldn’t stick.
CD reduction at end is logical, othertwise DN CD increase would be very useless :-)
Your explanation of double DN is very likely what happened with the CD reduction at end.