Lightning Tendrils

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soul4hdwn wrote:

if caster's hp is relatively high, then doesn't quite matter how strong or fast the hits are, the leeches are near instant. if cast speed was enough for 10 hits per second, healing 5 damage each hit, it might as well be life gain on hit, every hit is going to count/work. the issue only comes into play if the damage is TOO high and the hits/sex is more than one a second.

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solistus wrote:

Life leech recovers life at a fixed rate based on your max life. It does not recover faster from big hits - it recovers at the same rate, it just lasts longer before it expires. Each hit that leeches life basically creates an invisible buff on your character that restores 20% of your life per second for X seconds, with the duration varying so that you recover the correct total amount of life from that hit. These buffs don't stack if you leech again before you finish recovering the life you leeched from a previous hit, but if you're dealing DPS at constant intervals then it doesn't really matter whether you do your DPS in big/slow hits or small/fast ones - if you're leeching enough that the buffs end up overlapping, you've basically capped out your life leech.

A lot of people seem to think the leech nerf made it bad on small hits, but that's a misinterpretation. It was a nerf to leeching off of AoE hits, because when you hit a bunch of stuff at the same time only the biggest single hit will leech anything. It can also end up being a bit less efficient than expected with multistrike or spell echo, since you're not attacking/casting at a constant rate - getting multiple hits with very short gaps between them, then a longer gap before the next set of multiple hits, is worse for leech than the same number of hits over the same length of time spaced out evenly - you could end up wasting leech due to overlap with each set of hits, then having the leech effect wear off briefly in between sets.

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CharanJaydemyr wrote:

http://youtu.be/aI7GDBCIuj0


There we go. FINALLY uploaded. Yay Australian internet.

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CharanJaydemyr wrote:

Shouldn't the spell/skill move a character into range to cast by default?

I.E. it detects how close you have to be to hit. If this weren't the case, then all spell-casting would function as though we're holding shift, wouldn't it?

If I moved around and tried it again, my character dutifully moved into sufficient range, cast the spell and dealt the appropriate damage. Against the same totem.

Regarding what you're saying, I've tried using /oos after significant usage and there doesn't seem to be consistent desync incurred by the skill itself. One time I saw an actual rubberbanding, but that was just the once.

BUT I can do a single Normal ledge run and encounter multiple examples of what I've illustrated in the video. Ledge is a good place to test since it has a lot of stationary targets: archers, totems.

Lightning Tendrils appears to have genuine collision detection problems.