Originally Posted by Wilki

We've made a change to the explosion spell to address two issues with using scrolls to be able to stack spells that isn't possible without using scrolls. We'd like you to jump on TC2 Pub40 and play a mage to see if you can break it. Try casting all manner of spell combos, as well as mixing it up with some explosion scrolls if you can. Then, just go out and PvP/Hunt normally. When you're finished, please post your results here.

This thread is ONLY for discussing the explosion spell on TC2. Please help keep it on topic.

Here is an explanation of the change that I wrote last night:

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We stayed late trying to get a good fix in for the explosion scroll issue, and managed to slip it in.

Since I know this is going to cause some "WHAT DID YOU DO!!!" concerns, I'll just go ahead and explain it in detail.

Currently, if you cast an exp spell and target it, there is a 3 second delay before the spell lands and the dmg is applied. During this 3 seconds, you can cast and target other spells, but if you cast another exp before the first lands, the first one is cancelled. For example:

Cast Exp
Target Monster
Wait 250 ms
Cast Exp
Target Monster

You'll see yourself cast both spells, but only the 2nd one will land and do damage.

Now, if you substitute a scroll for either of the explosions, then both will land and do damage. With 2FC, you're able to cast exp, exp, eb and have them all land within 1.5 seconds, for quite a bit of damage. Just casting spells, you can't do that.

There is also a related issue that allows you to land two explosions even closer than 1.5 seconds, but I won't go into that :-)

So, what we did is to not allow you to cast explosion if you're in the 3 second delay period from another explosion. This doesn't change spell casting from a book at all (except that you won't see an extra pointless casting animation), but it will prevent a spell/scroll combo from being used to bypass the "Hey, are you waiting for an explosion to land?" check.

Again, this ONLY affects trying to cast explosion twice back to back. You can still cast explosion, energy bolt, or whatever other followup spell you want to use.

Hope that makes sense, it's a little late :-)

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If you find that you are unable to cast explosion at all, please stop using that character and email me with your account name and the name of the character: wilki@uo.com

Thanks everyone, and have fun on TC2!