chain lightning and hitting caster

Dexity · **Posted:** Sun Oct 07, 2012 2:24 pm

With Ivstnesr it always hit me. It does not now with Heflin! I do not mind, it makes the spell more viable..

Quote:

You utter the words, 'qpaui diesilla'.
A lightning bolt leaps from your hand and arcs to a fire elemental.
A fire elemental's body goes into spasms as your arc of lightning impacts it.
The bolt arcs to the grey wolf!
The grey wolf stops following you.
The grey wolf's body goes into spasms as your lightning stream impacts her.
The bolt arcs to a fire elemental!
Your electrical attack barely grazes a fire elemental, singeing it slightly.
The bolt arcs to the grey wolf!
The grey wolf's body goes into spasms as your lightning stream impacts her.
The bolt arcs to a fire elemental!
Your electrical attack barely grazes a fire elemental, singeing it slightly.
The bolt arcs to the grey wolf!
The grey wolf's body goes into spasms as your lightning stream impacts her.
The bolt arcs to a fire elemental!
Your electrical attack barely grazes a fire elemental, singeing it slightly.
The bolt arcs to the grey wolf!
The grey wolf's body goes into spasms as your lightning stream impacts her.
The bolt arcs to a fire elemental!
Your electrical attack barely grazes a fire elemental, singeing it slightly.
The bolt arcs to the grey wolf!
The grey wolf's body goes into spasms as your lightning stream impacts her.
The bolt arcs to a fire elemental!
Your electrical attack barely grazes a fire elemental, singeing it slightly.
The bolt arcs to the grey wolf!
Your bolt of lightning streams past the grey wolf.
The bolt arcs to a fire elemental!
Your bolt of lightning streams past a fire elemental.
The bolt arcs to the grey wolf!
Your lightning bolt electrifies the grey wolf's chest, sending her sprawling.
The grey wolf is DEAD!!
You hear the grey wolf's death cry.
You junk a corpse of the grey wolf.

You utter the words, 'qpaui diesilla'.
A lightning bolt leaps from your hand and arcs to a fire elemental.
A fire elemental's body goes into spasms as your arc of lightning impacts it.

Group: Heflin's Party
(F1) [---------------] (F2) [---------------] (F3) [a fire elementa]
(M1) [---------------] (M2) [---------------] (M3) [ Heflin]
(B1) [---------------] (B2) [---------------] (B3) [---------------]
Characters Rank Pos Here Follow Prone HP ME PE
Heflin Leader M3 Yes No No 100% 85% 100%
A fire elemental Member F3 Yes Yes No 56% 100% 100%

zryych · **Joined:** Sat Oct 02, 2010 10:24 pm **Posts:** 483

My warlock has been around since before the changes (I think he started a little ways before ivstnesr died) and I've never been hit by chain lightning, not once. I even remeber throwing up RE to protect myself and eventually realized that it never came near me. If there's only one other person in the room(no pet or elemental), it works just like a regular lightning bolt spell: hits once and done.

Dulrik · **Posted:** Tue Dec 25, 2012 9:13 am

Fixed for next update (caster will be hit by own chain lightning).

Galactus · **Joined:** Fri Aug 24, 2012 3:21 pm **Posts:** 906

So.... The spell will not be used anymore??? Point being???

Dulrik · **Posted:** Tue Dec 25, 2012 9:21 am

1) Use resist elements.
2) Cast it from range.

zryych · **Joined:** Sat Oct 02, 2010 10:24 pm **Posts:** 483

I suppose this makes sense, but it definitely makes me a sad panda.

Edoras · **Posted:** Tue Dec 25, 2012 3:13 pm

People need to realize that in close-range combat, chain lightning wasn't a great choice anyway.

Galactus · **Joined:** Fri Aug 24, 2012 3:21 pm **Posts:** 906

As far as I know, that due to damage differential, most people only used chain lightning in pve. Which I don't see the issue and if you used it in pvp, for it to be effective, there should only be 3 other targets (ele, enemy, and enemy's pet).

Dralan · **Joined:** Mon Sep 16, 2002 4:06 am **Posts:** 756

Chain lightning is still rather effective in pk, not just in-your-face PK.

shadow · **Joined:** Thu Apr 14, 2011 4:51 am **Posts:** 442

It's not a bug, been like that for AGES. And it's meant to be like that. What would you think of an elementalist that can't control his own lightnings? Yes, he can control the entire weather in a whole area, but he can't control a few sparks of lightning, yeah...

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