Translocations spell: Doublephase

[TeshiAlair]

Doublephase sends out a copy of yourself to a smite-targeted location. The duration is increased the farther away the copy is.

Effects:
Each copy uses your max healthpool, but takes 60% damage. So, if a monster is attacking only one, it is beneficial, if monsters are attacking both, you take more damage.

Your weapon is uncertain as well- all attacks cleave, but do 60% damage. Your clone attacks when you do.

Spells only cost the MP of one cast. However, charms and transmutations have half duration, conjurations have their damage reduced by half. Other translocations cannot be used during this.

Neither copy can move if either of their movements is blocked. (i.e., if Original hits a monster in front of it, Clone does not move forward.)

At the end of the spell, you teleport to your clone's location. You can end the spell early, but you will teleport to a random unoccupied square between you and your clone, inclusive.


Purposes:
A more offensive translocation, it can potentially double your damage, or put you in a bad spot. It also serves as a delayed controlled blink, but if your clone gets into trouble, cancelling early can be unpredictable. Copying to a short distance lets you wallop one enemy, but for a very short time, whereas copying further can help you get away, but increases the chance that something might spot your copy.

I'm thinking level 7 personally.

[Sprucery]

Your clone attacks when you do.

Does the clone only attack the same target as you do (if it can), or can it attack something else (and how is the target then selected)?

[reaver]

Every mechanic which has tried to copy "exactly what the player does" has collapsed into a mechanically simpler version.

For example, battlesphere would copy the bolt you used to trigger it before being changed to just use MMISSILE and shadow mimic used to do the /exact same thing/ before also being changed.

Since copying the exact spell used is overcomplicated and hard to both code and balance.

[Pollen_Golem]

This is like if spectral weapon and passage of golubria got drunk and had a deformed baby.

the chance that something might spot your copy.

Up to this point it sounded like the copy is just an ally, but aren't allies perfectly stealthy?