@Yolokin_Swagonborn‌ you are correct but there's a factor you didn't take into account. Here's a hint: if you look on the General Discussion oil thread about this same nerf, it's a complete 180 full of ppl jumping for joy because of things like 'oil on ground breaks immersion', 'oil too strong', 'I die to oil farmers' and so on. Go figure.

For the time being all the oil nerf does is diminish available tactics in PvP, namely in regards to defending keeps against zergs.

So, if you can see the "point" of the oil arc when you deploy, you should be able to get the oil drop. Hence direct on stairs = no, while if you drop it to the side of stairs = yes.

Thank you so much for testing this. It's very, very helpful.

I wish the developers had looked at the mechanics of oil pouring further before incorporating this change. For instance going by thier own design if I was to pour oil straight onto floor it would come out in a frontal cone similar to combat prayer or dawnbreaker. Buf if you increase the distance before the oil hits the ground it would land in a circular pattern.

If they used this as the mechanic it would be alot more acceptable than current proposed changes. And im sure since they already have coding for both aoes effects it wouldnt be too hard to add the variable.