notes on v1.10 (beta) Assassin Blade skills

[Crystalion]

Ruvanal wrote:

Also you may want to consider modding the NextDelay factor to a higher value for your testing.  Or even putting it on a different missile altogether for the testing purposes.  Putting it on say firebolt with a NextDelay=250 might prove useful for certain testing.

Zath went to the trouble of doing some tests and didn't get my results, so, aside from repeating my tests and making some suggestions/question for him, I've taken Ruvanal's suggestion...

I modified fire bolt and cold bolt to have NextDelays. I didn't observe any difference in a quick test. So I also gave them NextHit values of 1 and this seemed to activate the usage of NextDelay (thus possibly answering the question I raised for the two missiles with NextDelay but no NextHit).

Giving Firebolt a NextDelay of 25 and Coldbolt 250 I observed the following with a v1.10s -act 5 level 33 Sorc in Normal Players 8 Blood Moor (one skill point put into Cold Bolt and none for FB, as you are started with a +1 FB staff)...

Repeatedly firing Firebolts at a monster every other one would pass harmlessly through.
Repeatedly firing Coldbolts at a monster the first hits and the next ten seconds (roughly--I didn't time it) worth miss.
During that period (post coldbolt) the firebolts also all miss.

Ergo, the NextDelay effect isn't tied to a particular missile as far as I can tell (that is, it appears to be a "global" effect per target).

I will now go and do a PvP test with 3 players (with the mod) and edit report back...
edit: same results for a 3rd player... i.e. I have a PvP "victim" and use a hostile Sorc to Cold Bolt them after which I switch to another hostile player, a Necro, who finds his Teeth and Poison Novas won't harm the victim until the 10 seconds are up.