Dark Metamorphosis Not Working

Also, just a thought. When you guys DO get the skill itself working properly again, any chance of throwing one of them SP Reset scrolls to all the 4th job demon slayers affected by this problem? Because due to the fact that it hasn't been working properly, a lot of us have been forced to do fairly sub-optimal skill builds, because, well, Dark Meta's buff is good enough that it's basically the first "Must Max" that we get.
I mean sure we're supposed to have dark meta and barricade mastery maxed by 140 anyway, but still.
I mean you guys HAVE been giving them out like candy with all those hot time events, haha.

Players will most likely not receive any SP resets, although that is my educated opinion and Nexon may decide differently(:

Would I be correct in assuming that the damage buff portion of the skill itself is coded to go into effect once the summon portion is activated?
Since it's not activating the summon, it's not activating the damage buff.

This would be as close to correct as possible. The 'summons' themselves do not give the actual buff, although are just a visual effect.

For those who are curious about how the skills / -preventing skill editing- happens: A copy of every skill, it's information, along with any 'checks' applied to it are coded into the server.

When using a skill, it sends information to the game server, sees that you 'requested' using the skill, and returns the appropriate response. If the server-sided skill information is broken or wrong (in the case of Dark Metamorphosis) the game is made to automatically do nothing, and in technical terms return a void response.

Now, if you wonder about then why were hackers able to create the familiar hacking a month back? That now goes into the 'checks' area. A check in programming terms is coding that was added to check for abnormal behavior, or any abuse. For issues such as exploits, a check is put in place to re-ensure that the player actually has the item, or changes the way the event is coded to prevent further abuse.

In the case of checks for skills, this makes it so no abuse or *not meant* effects of the skill are used. If you attempt to edit the information of skills using 3rd-party programs and try to attack, you will see the visual effect of the attack, although your character will not actually do any damage (or get the buff) and it will be very apparent to others you are hacking.

tldr; > It's likely that the coding for the skill on their servers is wrong, thus skill will not work.

Crossposting from nexon forums. GodEmperor = Me, TyIer = one of their community responders.
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