Killed with own AoE and lightning rune

[Cathbald]

Hello,
not sure if it is a bug but seemed surprising to me.
I was playing necro and I activated lightning rune then my chill of the tomb. I didn't pay attention, didn't throw far enough and hit myself with it.
I avoided all damage thanks to lightning rune, got teleported by it and got hit a second time by the same AoE.

Is it supposed to happen? If so, does it work the same when I get hit by AoE from mobs (friends or foes)?

Thanks.

[Radon26]

in general, when you use aoe you check whether it says "all enemies" or "all creatures", is generally how you know. although, there some badly worded descriptions.

chill of the tomb does damage to EVERYTHING, ally and foe alike.

as for lightning rune, it seems to only react to the first damage.
if something attacked you before the CotT exploded, it might have triggered the rune, "teleporting" you into the area, and then letting the cold damage through.

[Cathbald]

The rune absorbed or "avoided" (I don't remember the exact text) 239 cold damage (against the cursed lumberjack) then I got hit for 239 cold damage and died, I'm pretty sure CotT was the culprit for both times ^^

And I know it is supposed to damage me and my allies, I was asking is lightning rune had the same behavior with AoE from other char than me and if it interacts different with allies and enemies AoE.

[Radon26]

i don't think the game is supposed to distinguish between AoE damage and stright to face damage, but maybe that is what happening and the rune simply lets aoe through... but then if it did said it avoided the cold damage... well, we will have to wait for housepet or someone like him if that is the case...

[grayswandir]

From memory, lightning rune immediately moves you when you take damage. Area attacks work by getting a list of tiles that they hit and then firing at each one sequentially. So it's entirely possible you moved into another tile that hadn't been hit yet.

Fixing the latter is probably impossible with the given system, but it might be possible to make lightning "dematerialize" you for the duration of the attack and put you back on the map at the end of the turn.

[Radon26]

the rune is supposed to avoid only 1 attack. doing what you suggested ("...at the end of a turn") would make you avoid ALL attacks that turn.

sooo, i hope it doesn't become an invulnerability button because of 1 bug.

how about changing the AoE, to instead of attacking every single tile, it would FIRST lock on all the targets, and attack these specific target's afterward.

[grayswandir]

Well, by "turn" I meant "tick", so you can still get hit several times before your turn comes up again. You'd just avoid that one set of hits (which could arguably be called an "attack).

Like I said, that'd be ... hard.