Is Orb of Destruction Glitched?

[Laraso]

Hey, took a break from this game for a while but I just came back, started up a new character in trunk and now it seems like Orb of Destruction passes through enemies... It will be in front of them traveling straight at them, then next turn it will be behind them. I even tested this in a single tile wide corridor, cast OoD, and it passed through the enemy in front of me...

It only happens some times though, did they change the mechanics of the orb or is it just buggy right now?

[duvessa]

Yes, orb of destruction is glitched. It isn't due to any change though, or "right now", it's just because orb of destruction has always been a buggy piece of shit and always will be.

[Laraso]

I've never had this much trouble with it before, though. It's like only a 60% chance that it's actually going to hit, the other 40% it just phases through them. It's never been this bad before.

[WingedEspeon]

never mind the times that you try to fire OoD with a STRAIGHT LINE between you and the target and it CURVES.

[radinms]

we are not talking about carving. talking about phasing

[WingedEspeon]

Well I think both are glitches. It was pretting funny went a monster cast OoD at me and then changed places with his orb and blew himself up though.

[wheals]

I broke this a little while back (OK, not so little), thanks for reminding me to finally get around to fixing it.

[Laraso]

Wheals, I love you

[duvessa]

i hate iood

[Laraso]

It's my favorite spell

[neil]

never mind the times that you try to fire OoD with a STRAIGHT LINE between you and the target and it CURVES.

OOD launching at the wrong angle isn't a glitch, it is an intentional nerf, that has been there since shortly after the spell was introduced in 0.6 development, to compensate for IOOD always doing damage when it hits a monster's square, without a to-hit/evasion check; and for monsters being too stupid to dodge IOOD.

The accuracy of the launch increases with spellpower (as of 0.7). At 75 power it can vary by as much as 15° in either direction, and at 200 power by around 6° in either direction. The OOD will attempt to regain course in-flight, so if there is some distance between you and the target, it is not quite as inaccurate as those numbers make it sound.

[Rast]

FR: Monsters dodging OOD

[jason0320]

Just have your spellforged servitor cast it and forget the aiming and mana cost.