The description of shadowstep says the skill simply requires the monster to be seen. But this is erroneous, it skill requires that there must be no wall between the player and the target. It can jump over monsters just fine, but walls, no.
Arcane Eye was used to spot out a monster in range of shadow step but the skill could not get passed the wall.
Telepathy gave the same result.
Note that the cursed class's "blindside" can jump over walls. What is strange that, if anything, a magic class whose skill is called "shadow jump" can't "jump from the shadows..." whereas a non magic class can jump out of nowhere.
A suggestion would be to either
a) Fix both, so that none of them can get passed walls.
b) Reverse them, so that the curse's blindside cannot get passed through walls but shadowstep can.
c) Modify Shadowstep to get through walls and leave blindside alone.
If blindside is modified, then the skill prenatural senses should be changed too since they are complementary abilities.
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The Spell Shaping spell of the archmage ignores the damage absorption items.
For example, suppose a level 5 spell shaping sustain blocks out the damage of a player cased inferno. The player has 100 fire resistance and a Fiery Choker, which yields 30% fire absorption.
In this case, should spell shaping block out the damage of inferno when it's beneficial? The intuitive method of spell shaping is to "craft spells to benefit and not harm the caster" in this case, helping the caster heal is clearly beneficial.
Suppose you say that spell shaping should not block out the damage, and just have it apply normally if it can benefit the caster, but what happens when you have say.... 30% fire absorption but only 40,50,60,70,80 resistance? At what point is it "hurting" the caster if you have low fire resistance?
Also, how is absorption calculated when coupled with resistance?
How does resistance piercing work if say, you have 50% damage piercing on a fire spell and you cast inferno on yourself w/o spell shaping but with 100% resistance? Do you break you own resistance?
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Also, when burning wake/spell shaping is activated, there is no check for the debuff removal for cleansing flames.
Meaning, if I am debuffed, and I walk into a burning wake, it is not possible for me to be debuffed by my own spell. Is this on purpose? It guess this is linked to the damage check, "if the unit is damaged by burning wake, then there is a debuff..." but still.
Shadowstep LOS/ Damage Absorbtion Spell shaping
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