Class Idea: Witch Doctor

[grayswandir]

On a bump attack (I think)
stack traceback:
[C]: in function 'error'
/engine/interface/ActorTalents.lua:152: in function </engine/interface/ActorTalents.lua:134>
Lua Error: /engine/interface/ActorTalents.lua:174: /engine/interface/ActorTalents.lua:152: /hooks/witchdoctor/load.lua:39: attempt to index global 'target' (a nil value)
stack traceback:
/hooks/witchdoctor/load.lua:39: in function </hooks/witchdoctor/load.lua:38>
[string "return function(l, self, data) local ok=false..."]:1: in function <[string "return function(l, self, data) local ok=false..."]:1>
/mod/class/interface/Combat.lua:927: in function 'attackTargetWith'
/mod/class/interface/Combat.lua:195: in function 'attackTarget'
/data/talents/misc/npcs.lua:239: in function </data/talents/misc/npcs.lua:234>
[C]: in function 'xpcall'
/engine/interface/ActorTalents.lua:147: in function </engine/interface/ActorTalents.lua:134>
At [C]:-1
At [C]:-1 error
At /engine/interface/ActorTalents.lua:174 useTalent
At /engine/ai//talented.lua:52 runAI
At /engine/ai//talented.lua:61 doAI
At /mod/class/NPC.lua:61 act
At /engine/GameEnergyBased.lua:126 tickLevel
At /engine/GameEnergyBased.lua:62 tick
At /engine/GameTurnBased.lua:46 tick
At /mod/class/Game.lua:1141

[Forger101]

Fixed multiple things; First being the nil target value and secondly made sure that paralyzing venom autocast checks to see if the target can be poisoned(As I was testing things I noticed skeletons getting poisoned )

[Forger101]

New Version is out;Purge talent has been replaced with Twisted talent, which is a sustain that reduces the equilibrium penalty from using vim but using vim talents with it on puts random wild-gift talents on cooldown. When deactivated it deals manaburn damage in a radius that effects the player too.

[grayswandir]

This mod currently kills Nulltweaks's weapon changes. If you comment out hooks/load.lua line 22 it'll fix it. Generally you want to 'require' as few files as you can get away with in the hooks section, because they cause random bugs like this.

[Forger101]

Thanks for the heads up on that, I'll be sure to release a fix for it soon. As long as I'm at it are there any other things that can commonly cause incompatibilities?

[NemesisZeru]

Testing out the class for my friend Forger. It's fun so far(I've always been a fan of classes that use poisons and the like!), but I've noticed Vim generation early on is...iffy

Life Link is their only vim restoring skill, and with the next skill in the tree being a massive drain on Vim, seems like it'd be tight.

I'd suggest a possible passive that'd cause the Witch Doctor to regain vim depending on how many diseases/diseased targets are in whatever range. It'd encourage using poisons, as well as give some needed vim regeneration.


Also, why is this topic still in Ideas when it's an addon? Get off your lazy butts, Mods.


List of issues for 1.2(I really like this class, and don't want any feedback to be lost when you get the chance to come back to it):

Mana-Toxin doesn't list a duration on the tooltip. Actual duration is 3 turns(At 1/5, at least).


List of issues for 2.0
None yet!

[Forger101]

I had issues uploading this addon to te4.org so I'm just going to link a zip folder here for now.

[darkgod]

Which issues ??

[NemesisZeru]

So far, so good. Made it through all the T1s without any trouble this time. Not sure if there were more indepth changes(Besides Life Link being replaced), but it definitely feels quite a bit easier now. Helps I got some nice gear. Was a good run, but the Horned Horror was impossible to beat. 2 hours and all my lives later, I couldn't even get his health into the red. Blech


Question: Is it intentional most of the new WD skills don't scale with spellpower/willpower? I think Paralyzing Venom is the only one that scales(with Willpower). Was kinda surprising to see Corrosive Splash had no scaling(nor does fling/the root one I forget the name of).


Problem 1: Due to an...invalid 'addon hash' thing, using the latest WD update causes the character to not appear in the vault. Game gets automatically forced to offline mode.

Problem 2: Also having a weird bug where loading into a game takes a turn. For example, I go to main menu with no enemies in sight, and full hp. I load my save, and suddenly a purple explosion thing is hitting me for 60 damage as soon as it starts up. There's a sound like attacking whenever the game saves/loads, and I've even taken damage on the world map from this.

The animation is similar to the Twisted explosion....oh! I know what it is! When starting the game up, it starts with my sustains off, then switches them on as it loads(?), thus causing me to get hit by the manaburn explosion! Disabled Twisted and the manaburn explosion on loading game no longer happened, so something like that is it. This doesn't seem intentional, so it seems like something that should be fixed, if possible.

[Forger101]

Which issues ??

After the addon's MD5 was generated and it started to upload it to the site, I immediately lose connection and get the error of "uhoh!". Not joking about the error. I already looked at the log but all I could find out was that it was at least generating the MD5