I've been trying to figure out some targeting weirdness. In most games, I would expect targeting monster 1 with a spell with 5 max targets to hit monsters 1, 2, and 3 (centered around the monster I targeted). HV is different.
It seems that when X monsters were spawned at the beginning of the round, targeting any of them with a spell with at least max targets X will hit all of them - even if, for instance, a spell with 7 targets is cast on monster 1, which would ordinarily reach only monsters (1, 2, 3, 4) if a spell centered around monster 1 behaved as expected. This auto-centering doesn't seem to happen when targeting monsters near the bottom.
Also, when targeting a monster near the top, sometimes it appears that HV automatically centers your spell to do hit more targets - for instance, if monsters 1 - 7 are alive, targeting monster 1 with a max targets 5 spell will hit monsters 1 - 5.
If monster 1 is dead, this auto-centering behavior is less reliable - a max targets 3 spell cast on monster 2 when monster 1 is dead and the rest are still alive results in the spell being centered on 2 - no auto-centering. But a max targets
5 spell seems like it will still auto-center: targeting 2 when 1 is dead and the rest are alive will result in 2 through 5 being hit. (auto-centered on 3). When 1 and 2 are dead, casting a max targets 7 spell on 3 will still auto-center on 4, hitting 3-7. The same is probably true for a max targets 9 spell (only relevant for random encounter and last arena battle with possible 10 monsters) - max targets 9 spell cast on one of targets 1 through 5 will auto-center on 5, regardless of which are still alive (even if 5 is dead).
So it seems that a more general statement of what is happening is:
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A spell with max targets X, if targeted on monsters 1 through [(x + 1) / 2], will be automatically centered around monster [(x + 1) / 2].
(regardless of how many monsters were spawned at the beginning, or how many are still alive)
and
A spell with max targets X, if there were X or less spawned monsters, will always hit everything.
Does that sound accurate to you guys? I'm not sure if it applies to all spells, or if certain depreciating spells are excluded, or if certain damage spells are excluded. I didn't check spells with an even number of targets either since rounding would probably make things even more troublesome.
QUOTE(m00sey @ Feb 22 2015, 23:09)
I've been scrapping all my sups that I can't donate to the FS, everything else save items I think I can make money off of, I send to fs.
Here's hoping the FS isn't shut out of business due to level-binding once the new patch hits...
This post has been edited by Superlatanium: Feb 23 2015, 07:33
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