Frost Staff now "Tracks"?

FlopsyPrince

I was running some rare content (for me) on my Frost Warden and I saw that my Frost Staff attacks, at least the long ones, curved to the target. I tend to use a Lightning Staff on other classes because it targets better (for me). Is this a general change now? Does the heat staff do the same now?

Soarora

I'm pretty sure it already did that, same with inferno.

FlopsyPrince

Soarora wrote: »

I'm pretty sure it already did that, same with inferno.

It did not do that a long while back (years possibly) when I last paid attention to it. I didn't use Inferno Staffs because I missed too often.

CP5

All projectiles track, though technically projectiles that are getting launched to a ground aoe (like fire rune or elemental explosion) are tracking to a static target. Even arrows from bows, npc thrown knives, as long as the attack was launched with a target, it'll track to the target.

FlopsyPrince

CP5 wrote: »

All projectiles track, though technically projectiles that are getting launched to a ground aoe (like fire rune or elemental explosion) are tracking to a static target. Even arrows from bows, npc thrown knives, as long as the attack was launched with a target, it'll track to the target.

I missed many targets at some point in the past with Inferno and Ice staffs. At least I would legally assert that. It is why I didn't like them.

Sluggy

FlopsyPrince wrote: »

CP5 wrote: »

All projectiles track, though technically projectiles that are getting launched to a ground aoe (like fire rune or elemental explosion) are tracking to a static target. Even arrows from bows, npc thrown knives, as long as the attack was launched with a target, it'll track to the target.

I missed many targets at some point in the past with Inferno and Ice staffs. At least I would legally assert that. It is why I didn't like them.

Nope. It's been like that since at least release (maybe sooner but I never tried a staff during beta). It was something a lot of people would comment about with confusion in the early days because they couldn't understand why they were being attacked from around corners

GuuMoonRyoung

FlopsyPrince wrote: »

CP5 wrote: »

All projectiles track, though technically projectiles that are getting launched to a ground aoe (like fire rune or elemental explosion) are tracking to a static target. Even arrows from bows, npc thrown knives, as long as the attack was launched with a target, it'll track to the target.

I missed many targets at some point in the past with Inferno and Ice staffs. At least I would legally assert that. It is why I didn't like them.

You missed them because sometimes, sometimes, mobs dodge roll! And our attacks miss!

FlopsyPrince

GuuMoonRyoung wrote: »

FlopsyPrince wrote: »

CP5 wrote: »

All projectiles track, though technically projectiles that are getting launched to a ground aoe (like fire rune or elemental explosion) are tracking to a static target. Even arrows from bows, npc thrown knives, as long as the attack was launched with a target, it'll track to the target.

I missed many targets at some point in the past with Inferno and Ice staffs. At least I would legally assert that. It is why I didn't like them.

You missed them because sometimes, sometimes, mobs dodge roll! And our attacks miss!

It wasn't a dodge and roll miss. It was the attack going in a straight line and the mob moved. Perhaps a couple were dodge and rolls and I missed it, but not all of them.

Sluggy

I might be that before you were attacking out of range and now with practice and experience you've just become accustomed to the range of light attacks with a staff so that you know when it will land without even thinking about it. There's a lot of little things like that in this game that seem weird to players until it just becomes habit and muscle memory.