Battle Mage Dark Aura bug

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Job: Dual Blade
Job Level: 250
Description of Bug (Explain the bug, How is it done, what should it really be doing? etc. An unclear description will not get the bug fixed):
Battle Mage's skill Dark Aura is completely non-functioning. You do not receive the stated Damage buff, nor is the Boss Damage from the Hyper Skill applied. As seen here (before) and here (after), I gain 0 range or Damage stat. My friend FoxSpirits and I have come to the conclusion that the Boss Damage buff has 2 possibilities happening;
  1. The skill is applying the "Boss Damage" much like other Hyper Skills do, in that the actual 20% is not applied to the stat window, only when hitting bosses
  2. The more likely answer, the skill is simply not applying the buff whatsoever.
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I am a BaM main and Dark Aura's 20% damage bonus works perfectly fine for me and my duo.

I'm not sure how the 10% boss damage hyper is supposed to work, so I've also always been dubious of it. It's a bit difficult to tell, but I think the hyper doesn't work, but not sure on that.
 

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I am a BaM main and Dark Aura's 20% damage bonus works perfectly fine for me and my duo.

I'm not sure how the 10% boss damage hyper is supposed to work, so I've also always been dubious of it. It's a bit difficult to tell, but I think the hyper doesn't work, but not sure on that.
Interesting, thank you for your input. When we activate Dark Aura, as seen in the screenshots, I don't get any sort of benefit from it. The buff is very clearly active on me, as seen in the top right, but nothing happens. I'm curious, and I know it sounds a bit stupid, but how do you buff your buddy with it?
 

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Okay, so I did a little more testing with my alt and I think BaM's auras got re-bugged with the recent update (Nov. 14).

A bit of context on BaM's auras: since I started playing around August 20th this year, they've been bugged: party members would see in their buff bar random auras, sometimes multiple auras, usually not corresponding properly to what buff was actually applied, nor what stats they were getting (90% of the time no stats were applied at all). As well, spamming auras would randomly move party member's HPs up and down (like completely random percentages, would bring them to near 0, then somewhere high, middle etc.) and you could see this in the party UI health bars too. Strangely, you would see blue numbers popping up (like heal numbers), so it's as if you were healing negative amounts, though they didn't correspond to the random health bars.

This was fixed with the October 18th restart (perhaps it got fixed in the October 15th patch but I'm pretty sure it was specifically the 18th restart), which made auras work perfectly (well as perfectly as auras work on Aries, they're more like buffs rather than auras), with none of the random HP bar bugging. This was a very big "buff" for BaM (for those unfamiliar with BaM's auras, the notable ones are an effective 1.44x final damage debuff with weakening aura, 20% damage with dark aura, 1 aspd with yellow) and made bosses with my duo much easier.

Weakening aura (the most important aura) does seem to still work right now (as compared to the other auras that almost always don't work), but not as reliably (in terms of duration) as it was before when it was working fine.

In fact, the current state of the bug is actually worse than pre-fix, because Aura Scythe would actually always work (Aura Scythe combines all 5 auras) fine for party members, but it's not applying on party members at all anymore.

Nice catch on this recent bug relapse.

TL;DR please revert BaM auras back to October 18th patch because they were actually working for party members and it was a godsend
 
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I have no idea what happened since there was no server restart/maint as far as I can see, but auras are working perfectly fine again now. I just tested it in multiple maps (Kerning, Henesys, boss maps, side rooms) and channels and it's no longer bugged. It's very evident when it works fine since you can see the correct auras under party members' feet and there's no random health bars.

It's extremely odd and I have no idea what made it bugged (or unbugged) since the weekend.
 

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I have no idea what happened since there was no server restart/maint as far as I can see, but auras are working perfectly fine again now. I just tested it in multiple maps (Kerning, Henesys, boss maps, side rooms) and channels and it's no longer bugged. It's very evident when it works fine since you can see the correct auras under party members' feet and there's no random health bars.

It's extremely odd and I have no idea what made it bugged (or unbugged) since the weekend.
Unfortunately for myself and my buddy, it still seems to be not working. I went and checked after I saw your reply and as we can see here for the before and here for the after, I have no difference in stat with or without Dark Aura. Also, interestingly enough, I have 3 Aura active at once, which I'm sure isn't how things should be working.
 

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BaM auras have been fine since last updated up until today's short maint and upgrade to v201.2. Broken again!

Also, strangely, and inconsequentially, Draining Aura's cd now starts at toggle on rather than at toggle off previously.
 
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