11-03-2003, 07:57 PM
Yeah. Most people are not aware of that feature of Charged Strike. It's been around since the dawn of the skill and is probably best documented by Sirian in his guide for Lytra before 1.10 beta ever came out. I also complimented his documented with several explanatory posts back in the Amazon Basin.
Now that the Charged Strike ramps up in the number of bolts, it does nearly exponential lightning damage and can tear through small groups like a hot knife through butter even if you don't heavily invest into synergies.
Another feature that is not often documented is the way that Charged Bolt effects seem to work. The graphic is only for one bolt. What does this mean? It means that skills that release increasing numbers of charged bolts seem to release them one ontop of the other in an instant or have some kind of sequence of fire that produces an interesting effect. Since only one bolt is hitting at any given instant, if that bolt happens to kill the enemy, the subsequent bolts will not impact him and will continue past the enemy into those behind him.
All this adds up to a brutally efficient attack that delivers elemental and physical damage if you hit, and elemental damage if you don't.
Now that the Charged Strike ramps up in the number of bolts, it does nearly exponential lightning damage and can tear through small groups like a hot knife through butter even if you don't heavily invest into synergies.
Another feature that is not often documented is the way that Charged Bolt effects seem to work. The graphic is only for one bolt. What does this mean? It means that skills that release increasing numbers of charged bolts seem to release them one ontop of the other in an instant or have some kind of sequence of fire that produces an interesting effect. Since only one bolt is hitting at any given instant, if that bolt happens to kill the enemy, the subsequent bolts will not impact him and will continue past the enemy into those behind him.
All this adds up to a brutally efficient attack that delivers elemental and physical damage if you hit, and elemental damage if you don't.