Lightning Warp

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UristMcDwarfy wrote:

I'm fairly confident that it's using they player's cast time correctly as it should, but using the player's movement speed surprises me a bit.

If it used it's own movement speed it would never, ever go anywhere. Using the player's was consistent with how totems worked and seemed the obvious solution.

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UristMcDwarfy wrote:

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Mark_GGG wrote:

If it used it's own movement speed it would never, ever go anywhere. Using the player's was consistent with how totems worked and seemed the obvious solution.

I didn't say it was a bad surprise. :)

I guess I never really though about it since I don't consider movement speed either a defensive OR offensive stat, and that seems to be the line that separates whether a totem uses its own stats or yours. I know it's not as simple as that, but that seems to be what it gets boiled down to more often than not.

That said, it sounds like a great idea to me. I'd be off trying to make a Lightning Warp totem character if I could find a build I was mostly satisfied with...

Technically movement speed isn't a stat (although it's affected by stats), so this didn't work at first, an exception had to be made. Otherwise they caset the spell and it never moves them, and the the blue effects at the start and end points are there forever.

offensive/defensive has nothing to do with a totem "using your stats", its' much simpler than that, not more complicated. A totem uses it's own stats, but uses your skills. A skill used by your totem is your skill, not the totem's so any stat queried by the skill will receive your stat value.
When something hits a totem, they're hitting the totem, and are checking against it's stats to hit/damage it.
When something is hit by a fireball from a totem, that's your fireball skill, so it's checking against your stats to see damage, etc.

Anything relating to the totem as an object, it has it's own stats in that object.
Anything relating to a skill used by the totem, that's your skill and is using the stats of your skill, which are your stats (plus modifiers from supports, etc)

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pneuma wrote:

Any ETA on this 5+ month old bug? Might the enemy projectile change possibly fix this as a side effect?

Highly unlikely to have changed, given arrows still stick into things. We can't give an ETA because we still don't know what causes that. That crash is in a deep and complicated low-level part of the renderer to do with objects determining what lights affect them. The only person who really stands a change of working it out is Jonathan, and he's consistently busy with hundreds of other things as well. I'ts on the list, but it's not as high-priority as a lot of the other stuff which needs to be done.
In particular, that crash is highly unlikely to require a wipe to fix, so is by default lower priority until open beta than all the hundreds of things that have to happen before the final wipe.