DGDobrev
09-23-2010, 01:27 PM
Well, I'm just doing the kraken fight in champion of the arena with a single stack of royal thorns. I did the usual troll strategy - put the thorns between two tentacles, but this time, I decided to kill the left one so that I can hide in the corner and have only 2 stacks of devilfish attacking me.
That turns out to be wrong. I suffer hits by the kraken as well, but there is absolutely no animation, no tentacle swing or slap, no water splash, nothing to indicate an attack - only the damage numbers show up.
EDIT: HMMMM. BUMMER. I have noticed something else that kinda makes me consider this a bug. When the no-animation kraken attack happens, the royal thorns do a retaliation animation (they also hit, but hit the thin air, no damage numbers appear). That's not good... At first I thought some of the devilfish do that, but that's not the case because no damage numbers show up - EDIT: as you can see from the third screen, the thorns do look a little odd, as if they just attacked.
EDIT: Oh-kay... I made another screenshot, which clearly shows that I am being hit by an invisible tentacle. Although this is not recommended for the thorns strat, I used the royal thorns to summon some reinforcements - and guess what - the invisible tentacle promptly hit both stacks, as you can see from the 4th screenshot.
The first screen indicates my position, the second one I made for the battle log, where you can see I have suffered a hit in this position. The third screenshot shows the hit of 299 damage and the fading out devilfish hit for 50 something damage, which is not a concern at all. As you can see, I suffer this hit as soon as the adrenaline animation appears.
Is that supposed to happen? It's as if the destroyed tentacle is still slapping my poor thorns :) If this is not supposed to happen, I guess the only way around it is to do the tactic of 1-hit tentacles (use spells to drop all tentacles to 1-hit kill while hiding between any 2 of them so that only a single stack of devilfish can attack you).
Rather weird.
That turns out to be wrong. I suffer hits by the kraken as well, but there is absolutely no animation, no tentacle swing or slap, no water splash, nothing to indicate an attack - only the damage numbers show up.
EDIT: HMMMM. BUMMER. I have noticed something else that kinda makes me consider this a bug. When the no-animation kraken attack happens, the royal thorns do a retaliation animation (they also hit, but hit the thin air, no damage numbers appear). That's not good... At first I thought some of the devilfish do that, but that's not the case because no damage numbers show up - EDIT: as you can see from the third screen, the thorns do look a little odd, as if they just attacked.
EDIT: Oh-kay... I made another screenshot, which clearly shows that I am being hit by an invisible tentacle. Although this is not recommended for the thorns strat, I used the royal thorns to summon some reinforcements - and guess what - the invisible tentacle promptly hit both stacks, as you can see from the 4th screenshot.
The first screen indicates my position, the second one I made for the battle log, where you can see I have suffered a hit in this position. The third screenshot shows the hit of 299 damage and the fading out devilfish hit for 50 something damage, which is not a concern at all. As you can see, I suffer this hit as soon as the adrenaline animation appears.
Is that supposed to happen? It's as if the destroyed tentacle is still slapping my poor thorns :) If this is not supposed to happen, I guess the only way around it is to do the tactic of 1-hit tentacles (use spells to drop all tentacles to 1-hit kill while hiding between any 2 of them so that only a single stack of devilfish can attack you).
Rather weird.