Was in an adventure group this morning!

30 - 37 was the group range.. we finished our second adventure and decided to hit the barrel it casted burning acid which i believe is a high level spell, needless to say we all died in 3 ticks LOL still had fun, but the spell was doing 336 points of damage each tick.

Went to report bug it, but was wondering if anyone else has had this dirty dastardly bug cast on their low levels?

Doesn't look like a bug.

http://lucy.fnord.net/spell.html?id=4141&source=Live

The problem is that spell effects scale linearly, while player hp doesn't.

Also note that the 336 damage was just the initial blast. That barrel was level 34, so it was doing 88 damage per tick after the initial 336, and had 9 poison counters.

Still a bit excessive for the mid 30's I think, but not as bad as you made it sound. :)

(To make it easier to interpret the linked data: Acid Spray does (level*4)+200 damage initially, and (level*2)+20 damage per tick for 2 minutes. It has level/4 poison counters, rounded up.

Yah, last night. We had a really crappy trap too which basically lowered all stats to virtually nothing at the level we were at (28-34) including STR, so noone could move at all. This wouldn't be so bad but it lasts an hour. We had to duel/kill everyone and rez back in (thanks for cleric an pally rezzes) so we still won. However, we would have been dead in the water without 2 rezzers.

OH! I know what the problem is!

A trapped barrel will make the trap effect go off for EVERY hit that it takes. So the reason you took 3x 336 damage is because someone hit the barrel 3 times. :)