Storming Tempest Stacking Issues

Haciv · 08-20-2008, 07:54 PM

Has it always been this way or maybe just since the most recent "fix" of it?

Bug or Intended?

Sorry if this is common knowledge.

Spetz · 08-21-2008, 06:54 AM

What is the problem? Fire and Ice shape in action? Or just blind "rewriting" of the tempest?

Illuminator · 08-21-2008, 11:58 AM

It better not be intended.

Arialeova · 08-21-2008, 12:05 PM

Wow....just wow. Appears it's being cancelled by Claudine, but idk?

Are you and the other wiz casting Fireshape and Iceshape at the same time? Looks like it's competing? Seems like it's flipflopping between heat/cold dmg.

daray · 08-21-2008, 12:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Arialeova

Wow....just wow. Appears it's being cancelled by Claudine, but idk?

Are you and the other wiz casting Fireshape and Iceshape at the same time? Looks like it's competing? Seems like it's flipflopping between heat/cold dmg.

When storming tempest was changed to work as a dot, it was also changed from magic damage to heat damage by default. So fireshape has nothing to do with it - the change to cold is from iceshape.

But yah, what i think he is getting at, is that multiple storming tempests aren't stacking, but are instead overwriting eachother - in which case it is a bug (assuming Vicah, Eskio and Claudine are all wizards :P )

Claudine · 08-21-2008, 01:21 PM

Yes Daray we run 3 wizzys. Seems we over write each other when we cast it. =/

Slippery · 08-21-2008, 01:38 PM

No wonder it was always so low on my parses! /hate Dakkota!

stivan · 08-21-2008, 02:02 PM

thats really funny.... and not in a haha way

Arialeova · 08-21-2008, 02:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by daray

When storming tempest was changed to work as a dot, it was also changed from magic damage to heat damage by default. So fireshape has nothing to do with it - the change to cold is from iceshape.

But yah, what i think he is getting at, is that multiple storming tempests aren't stacking, but are instead overwriting eachother - in which case it is a bug (assuming Vicah, Eskio and Claudine are all wizards :P )

So in the example where it shows the change between heat and cold before it ticks off, this is where Iceshape is expiring? If so, then it makes sense.

Haciv · 08-21-2008, 02:18 PM

Sorry that I didn't go into a little better detail on this. I'd posted it quickly.

Essentially, regardless of the spell landing as heat or cold, Storming Tempest doesn't stack at all in regards to giving a full amount of ticks.

You can see by the timeline, reading it from bottom to top, that each Wizard gets blocked by the next Wizard to cast the spell. All the spell icons will be on the mob but only the last Wizard to cast on the mob will get the potential of maximum ticks.

Edit: I wonder if AD3 will override M1 or not. I'll see if I can test it out later.