Lightning Warp

Something seems wrong with lightning warp. using faster casting AND less duration, seems to do ZERO to how slow this spell is.

Did something change? And if so, what works with the skill now?

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computertech82 wrote:

Something seems wrong with lightning warp. using faster casting AND less duration, seems to do ZERO to how slow this spell is.

Did something change? And if so, what works with the skill now?

Nothing changed AFAIK. Does it have quality on it? Get 20q on lightning warp. Ideally, put it in a 4link with Faster Casting-Less Dur-Rapid Decay. If you can get 20q on less duration and faster casting, even better. Instant teleport. My pizzablaster uses it, and it is super fast. In fact, in this setup (including the cast speed my build gets elsewhere), it is probably the fastest movement skill.

There's 2 components to LW, the cast time: how long it takes to actually cast the spell (shown by the hero's cast animation) and teleport time: how long it takes to reach point B from point A.

Duration affects the second component (less duration and rapid decay) while cast speed (faster casting and a hero's casts per second) affects the first component.

The effects to duration are far more noticeable than faster casting, so if you only have a 3 link, I'd go with rapid decay and less duration over faster casting provided you aren't using an attack based hero that has a really really low casts per second (like 1.2 or something). If your casts per second are around 3, you don't really need another additive boost. Less duration is multiplicative and the real workhorse.

I haven't noticed any bugs but pretty sure it's working it's just below your threshold of detection, after all you're dealing with fractions of a second here.

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Vipermagi wrote:

Does your character have both Duration clusters? That'll fuck up Warp's duration something fierce. Necro also gets an additional 30% Increased Skill Duration.

Skill effect duration (both sets) in the passive tree for SRS. Ugh. didn't even think about that affecting Warp lightning. that explains a lot.

You seem to have identified what is causing your problem but there is another factor not mentioned in this thread. The delay between cast finish and the teleport happening is based on how long it would take your character to move that distance as if it were a straight walk. Put simply your move speed matters so getting boots with a good move roll will speed up your teleports.