[1.3.1] Lightning teleport doesn't trigger Dimensional Shift

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dukereg
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[1.3.1] Lightning teleport doesn't trigger Dimensional Shift

#1 Post by dukereg »

From the description of Rune: Lightning:
"... any damage will teleport you to an adjacent tile..."

From the description of Dimensional Shift:
"When you teleport you reduce the duration of a single detrimental effect..."

Playing Ogre Temporal Warden, I carefully watched the duration of some effects (stun, insidious poison, burn) while being hit after casting Rune: Lightning and the teleport didn't trigger the effect duration reduction.

I've seen people on the forums saying how the lightning rune is awesome as a free teleport for TWs in 1.3.0, and didn't see anything about it in 1.3.1 release notes, so I assume this not working is a bug.

(I notice that the effect created is "Elemental Surge: Lightning", which doesn't say the word teleport. If the rune isn't a "real" teleport, then the bug isn't that it doesn't work, but that the rune has "teleport" written on it.)

Radon26
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Re: [1.3.1] Lightning teleport doesn't trigger Dimensional S

#2 Post by Radon26 »

that's probably just badly worded.
with "teleportation" you bend time and space to relocate yourself, bat with the rune, you bend yourself into a different state of existence. or at least that's how i think its happening.

dukereg
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Re: [1.3.1] Lightning teleport doesn't trigger Dimensional S

#3 Post by dukereg »

Radon26 wrote:that's probably just badly worded.
with "teleportation" you bend time and space to relocate yourself, bat with the rune, you bend yourself into a different state of existence. or at least that's how i think its happening.
Maybe it's a bug, or maybe it's bad wording making it look like there is a bug. I'd like to hear which it is from someone who knows for sure how it's meant to work.

Either way I think it needs fixing, because it's the sort of wording that can get a Temporal Warden killed if they haven't tested it enough. (Expecting to lose your deadly debuffs while putting debuffs on your enemies? Sorry, nope! What, did you think you'd found a fun synergy that allows you to run a rune you could never justify using before?) Surely if it's not a teleport for the purposes of on-teleport talents, it shouldn't use the word.

The "Elemental Surge: Lightning" buff has a better description that could be modified slighly for the Rune: Lightning which causes it:
"...blah blah shoots a useless lightning beam blah blah... Also, for 2 turns, when damaged you turn into pure lightning and reappear near where you were, ignoring the damage."

I know as a software dev this stuff is never as easy to fix as it looks like, but it would make the expected behaviour clear. Unless it actually is a bug. :)

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Re: [1.3.1] Lightning teleport doesn't trigger Dimensional S

#4 Post by HousePet »

I think its working as intended and shouldn't really say it is a teleport.
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