[Minor] Storm's Ball Lightning

Dejaime · 01-16-2011, 02:51 AM

Ball Lightning is a complex skill with both: offensive and escaping potential. It can target 2 different things: Ground (point) or Enemy. When you're using the skill offensively, you have a little bit of time to think better where to click, but when you're using it to escape you'll have to act really fast to do it successfully depending on the situation...

That said,
I dare saying at least a half of enthusiastic Storm Spirit players have already faced one of these 2 death sentences:

Unable to target friendly units
Unable to target buildings

The fast reaction you had trying to cast Ball Lightning to flee can be retarded by this little missclick on a tower or even a friendly creep... As time is crutial, specially when escaping, this means death in some situations.

How to fix it:
A minor change in targeting system that allows allied units and buildings as targets, taking their coordinates as the point.

No cons or pros applies here, just a minor change in targeting system...

Nanaya Shiki · 01-16-2011, 02:58 AM

Yes. T-up.

NoThlnG · 01-16-2011, 03:09 AM

T-Up. This happens to many other skills as well.

D' Eradicated · 01-16-2011, 05:14 AM

Insta-

T-Up...

dsbn · 01-16-2011, 05:47 AM

This is good. Though never happened to me, but still a good find.

Lotus V Eater · 01-16-2011, 07:09 AM

hurmmm me neither...but as long as this small buff helps other DotA player to play better, why not? T-UP!

Shadow Fury · 01-16-2011, 07:11 AM

T-Up!

dominator02 · 01-16-2011, 08:09 AM

Support!

I hate when I will target quickly and then I targeted my allied units.

leMONQUakE · 01-16-2011, 08:17 AM

t-up!

happened to me once @_@

Razer.Cyberias · 01-16-2011, 08:44 AM

t-up ^^

no reason why this shouldnt be put in

JJE92 · 01-16-2011, 09:38 AM

TUp, although I think you could remove unit targeting altogether and just make it point targeted all the time. That should fix the problem as well afaik.

Dejaime · 01-16-2011, 04:11 PM

Thank you all for your comments!

Quote:

Originally Posted by JJE92

TUp, although I think you could remove unit targeting altogether and just make it point targeted all the time. That should fix the problem as well afaik.

I don't know if changing it to point targeted would automatically make all units/buildings automatically available as targets (their positions), but if it works this way, it's even easier. [:

letarox · 01-16-2011, 04:53 PM

no reason to t-d

t-up !

=D

Mr. Burns · 01-16-2011, 05:53 PM

T-up!

jesusatan · 01-16-2011, 06:15 PM

T-up, I have encountered this problem many times...

God_ii · 01-17-2011, 04:56 AM

t-up

Kazhw · 01-18-2011, 10:25 PM

:thumbs Up:

Dejaime · 01-18-2011, 11:45 PM

Happened again... Really annoying...

alwaysgorandom · 02-01-2011, 03:33 PM

you can target ground. there is an infinitely greater ammount of ground than there is allied units or buildings. why dont you just CLICK THE GROUND NEXT TO THE UNIT??

t-null, worthless change.

LulzYeah Cdeqz · 02-01-2011, 03:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by alwaysgorandom

you can target ground. there is an infinitely greater ammount of ground than there is allied units or buildings. why dont you just CLICK THE GROUND NEXT TO THE UNIT??

t-null, worthless change.

There's a common case where the enemy heroes walk around the towers and you can't click the enemy heroes because the tower's click point is in the way.

01-16-2011, 02:58 AM	#2
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alwaysgorandom Banned Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: B R A S I L Posts: 4,919	Re: [Minor] Storm's Ball Lightning you can target ground. there is an infinitely greater ammount of ground than there is allied units or buildings. why dont you just CLICK THE GROUND NEXT TO THE UNIT?? t-null, worthless change.