I recently got my 4th piece of Nightsong and I went to the target dummy to test it out. Much to my dismay I was doing 700-800dps less than usual. After a little experimentation I noticed that the set bonus is bugged. Although the buff icon shows up for the full duration +8 seconds, the damage bonus is not actually applied for the full duration. It actually looked like it was lasting less than the standard duration.
To be specific, I am using valorous helm and shoulders, conquerors gloves and legs. Perhaps it some interaction between the different tiers.
Edit:
Here are some screenshots
Before roar: http://i290.photobucket.com/albums/ll271/Dantross/WoWScrnShot_042509_004321.jpg
Roar first applied: http://i290.photobucket.com/albums/ll271/Dantross/WoWScrnShot_042509_004330.jpg
Buff on, but no affect: http://i290.photobucket.com/albums/ll271/Dantross/WoWScrnShot_042509_004335.jpg
You can notice on the addon in the lower left, first my auto crits are around for 400, then they go up to 600s with roar on, then back down to 400. I took off all my gear that includes any kind of proc to reduce randomness to the auto attacks.
Just to give them a little more to look at you might try getting to the combat dummy and getting 1 combo point on it, stop attacking for ~5 seconds to put a pause in combat log, pop a 1pt Savage Roar and auto-attack for the duration. It should be fairly easy to see if the +dmg bonus is dropping early and you could either post the combat log or a screenshot of it.
I understand that there are few people who have access to the 4 piece set bonus already so its difficult to get other players to verify the results. It'd be nice for some confirmation that Blizzard is aware of this bug.
As it turns out it is worse than I originally thought. Not only does the set bonus reduce the duration of savage roar, it effectively sets it to 8 seconds. Whether using 1 combo point, or 5, the damage increase of savage roar only lasts 8 seconds even though the graphic of the buff stays on for the full duration.
16. Re: [Bug] 4t8 Feral Nightsong 05/01/2009 04:19:25 AM PDT
I'm also getting this bug with 4 pieces of Conqueror's (all but the shoulders, if it matters). Here's a link to a very short parse: http://wowwebstats.com/rpeq1kvuouiqa?bl=-1
My first action is popping Savage Roar, followed by a Rake, which hits for 431. I Raked again 11 second later and it crit for 663, far less than it should have with 431 non-crit damage. For completeness I Raked again 1 second later and it was a normal hit for 332 damage.
The only item with a proc that I was wearing is Idol of the Corruptor. I didn't use Mangle in this parse, and even if I did 153 agility would not account for that large a difference in damage.
