Distorted Animated Sword's temporal area effect: 6166 dmg

[mrpickles]

At level 32, in Ardhungol, I was autoexploring (for 2 turns) when suddenly my character instantly died. Reading the chat log, I see:

"Distorted Animated Sword's temporal area effect hits Cruux for 6166 temporal damage."

I have 20% res all, and I think maybe a damage shield, so I assume the effect actually hits for at least 7708 damage. That seems... high.

Also, I think the area effect is still there. There is a yellow transparent field in the area. It is not going away. Even though I think the sword may have died, perhaps because I still had a mirroring damage shield up. At least, I don't see the sword around after resurrecting, even when I use Vimsense.

Crappy... this is now my last life (and only thanks to the Blood of Life). Hopefully that field isn't blocking the way to anywhere important.

[Faeryan]

Paradox type mobs are rather rare, fortunately.
Not sure but it sounds like a temporal anomaly that happened there.

[mrpickles]

So it may be working as intended. I'll try to think harder about ways I could survive/avoid something like that, but nothing's coming to me at the moment. For now, it feels like an arbitrary instadeath that undermines the sense of skill/foresight/preparation in the game.

I'll add that the field did go away sometime after 30 turns (after 30 turns, I went manually exploring, finished the map, then returned to find it gone). Also, before it vanished, I tried invoking a tentacle onto it (50% resist all), which got hit for around 3000+ temporal damage.

[Faeryan]

I would imagine there might have been something causing that enemy to cast stuff around which in turn increased his paradox to absurd amounts.

Personally I haven't experienced anything like that ever, so I'd say it has to be a rare occurrence.

Sometimes though the enemies get fighting among themselves even if they're the same faction, so that might have caused the paradox jump. Maybe the monster had a detection skill it spammed to find you or something.

[Mankeli]

I have no idea if it was an actual bug or not but it sounds incredibly stupid regardless. You may want to take a look at this thread (in case it wasn't a bug): http://forums.te4.org/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=40573