01-08-2004, 06:10 PM
Hello,
Recently I found something odd in the damage of the Flash spell. This is not the known bug where one of the two spell components does much less damage as the other. Experimenting was done in The Dark (Hellfire), where that bug is fixed.
Flash seems to do the proper damage to most monsters, both resisting and not. But sometimes, I'd say one in five, a monster turned out to be 'extra' resistant: it would only take about 20 damage, or even less when resistant to Magic. The proper damage would have been about 1800 for non-resisting monsters in this case. Strangly, this occurred to specific monsters, and other of its kind might receive the normal damage. Damage often turned back to normal when the monster changed its position. Leaving the level and returning had no effect, if the monster hadn't moved in between. Changing positions and directions of the casting character had no effect, either, as long as the monster didn't move.
The code of the Flash spell effects show nothing which could make this happening.
Has anyone ever encountered the same in regular Hellfire or Diablo, or is this spell simply not used there? ;)
Recently I found something odd in the damage of the Flash spell. This is not the known bug where one of the two spell components does much less damage as the other. Experimenting was done in The Dark (Hellfire), where that bug is fixed.
Flash seems to do the proper damage to most monsters, both resisting and not. But sometimes, I'd say one in five, a monster turned out to be 'extra' resistant: it would only take about 20 damage, or even less when resistant to Magic. The proper damage would have been about 1800 for non-resisting monsters in this case. Strangly, this occurred to specific monsters, and other of its kind might receive the normal damage. Damage often turned back to normal when the monster changed its position. Leaving the level and returning had no effect, if the monster hadn't moved in between. Changing positions and directions of the casting character had no effect, either, as long as the monster didn't move.
The code of the Flash spell effects show nothing which could make this happening.
Has anyone ever encountered the same in regular Hellfire or Diablo, or is this spell simply not used there? ;)