08-24-2004, 12:34 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-24-2004, 01:34 AM by bigeyedbug.)
Quote:I'll run around for a while with CoS on RMB, and see what I can see...
Well, just did some running around. ;) Stopwatch equipped. SP, to minimize issues with lag. Normal difficulty, so as not to get my hc ass qwn3d by Fallen champs while doing a freakin' experiment. Only for about 30 minutes, but I saw very little to make me doubt my observations before.
The duration of the smoke effect was 17 seconds--exactly what it should have been. I pretty much saw nothing resembling a non-timered CoS from the Shadow. When I could get Slim Shady into positions where she'd constantly recast, she basically seemed to abide by the timer.
But wait! "Very little" and "pretty much" and "basically seemed"?
Nope, not my pretentions at British understatement this time. There were a couple of times the the effect seemed to last a little less before being recast. ~15 seconds. And one time I clocked it at ~11 seconds. Operator error maybe?
In any case, there were at least 50 times that everything fell within normal parameters. And you'd think I'd see at least a few instances of fewer than 5 or 10 second castings. I think it's safe to say at the least, that the shadow is very hesitant to exploit the hypothetical timer bug. Gogo Legit Shadow!
It could also be that it's more likely to haxx0r the timer under specific circumstances that I didn't replicate. Anyone with some experience with this anomaly, speak up!
editnote--accidently edited previous post, by the way. That's where the quote came from.