Is it? I can't test it myself yet but when I looked it up all the comments say it doesn't work.ya mean mist form/streak/porta/teleport strike/flying blade? cuz if so they are covered in tormentor under the "Teleport" tag
DocFrost72 wrote: »I understand the confusion.
Blink abilities transfer you from one position to another. This is independent of a target. Streak/Ball of Lightning is one example, but you also have things like frozen gate, new mist form, and the new arcanist's portals.
Teleports, on the other hand, instantaneously allow you to arrive at a location to strike a target. This includes abilities such as ambush/lotus fan and hidden blade's secondary ability.
Teleports USED TO NOT WORK with tormentor, but now do. Leaps, like werewolf pounce, also didn't work but do now (source: am ww tank)
Hopefully this clears it up?
Edit to add: The reason tormentor doesn't work with, say, streak is because you need a target to taunt. Contrary to rumor and, as of my last testing a few patches back, aoe charges such as explosive charge only taunt the target you activated the ability against, NOT all targets affected. Stampede also only taunts the initial target. The aoe dot is not direct damage!
DocFrost72 wrote: »I understand the confusion.
Blink abilities transfer you from one position to another. This is independent of a target. Streak/Ball of Lightning is one example, but you also have things like frozen gate, new mist form, and the new arcanist's portals.
Teleports, on the other hand, instantaneously allow you to arrive at a location to strike a target. This includes abilities such as ambush/lotus fan and hidden blade's secondary ability.
Teleports USED TO NOT WORK with tormentor, but now do. Leaps, like werewolf pounce, also didn't work but do now (source: am ww tank)
Hopefully this clears it up?
Edit to add: The reason tormentor doesn't work with, say, streak is because you need a target to taunt. Contrary to rumor and, as of my last testing a few patches back, aoe charges such as explosive charge only taunt the target you activated the ability against, NOT all targets affected. Stampede also only taunts the initial target. The aoe dot is not direct damage!
Stampede’s initial direct damage is entirely AoE. That direct damage properly scales with Biting Aura and Master at Arms (last I tested). The skill doesn’t do single-target damage at all. If it’s not taunting all enemies hit with the initial AoE, I’d argue that’s a bug.
DocFrost72 wrote: »DocFrost72 wrote: »I understand the confusion.
Blink abilities transfer you from one position to another. This is independent of a target. Streak/Ball of Lightning is one example, but you also have things like frozen gate, new mist form, and the new arcanist's portals.
Teleports, on the other hand, instantaneously allow you to arrive at a location to strike a target. This includes abilities such as ambush/lotus fan and hidden blade's secondary ability.
Teleports USED TO NOT WORK with tormentor, but now do. Leaps, like werewolf pounce, also didn't work but do now (source: am ww tank)
Hopefully this clears it up?
Edit to add: The reason tormentor doesn't work with, say, streak is because you need a target to taunt. Contrary to rumor and, as of my last testing a few patches back, aoe charges such as explosive charge only taunt the target you activated the ability against, NOT all targets affected. Stampede also only taunts the initial target. The aoe dot is not direct damage!
Stampede’s initial direct damage is entirely AoE. That direct damage properly scales with Biting Aura and Master at Arms (last I tested). The skill doesn’t do single-target damage at all. If it’s not taunting all enemies hit with the initial AoE, I’d argue that’s a bug.
A fair argument truthfully. I'd suggest based on their calculations it *isn't* a bug, for one reason.
Skill description:Target: Enemy
Range: 22m
Cost: 4590
Skill description
Launch across the earth and smash an enemy, dealing 1393 Physical Damage to them and all nearby enemies. This attack is always a Critical Strike. After reaching your target, you sunder the ground beneath you, dealing 319 Physical Damage to all enemies in the area every 1 second for 15 seconds.
New effect
Increases the cost and the charge now deals damage in an area around the target, and leaves residual damage at the impact area.
TLDR: the ability description makes it clear the ability has one target but can affect others, so it's likely working as ZoS designed it to re: tormentor.
Though, I agree, it is direct damage to a large number of people. I understand how you got to that conclusion.