Game Design Chaos explosion and ophanim don’t work together. Here’s how I would fix it.

I recently tried out an arcanist-light bender hybrid build now that it’s been made possible in 2.0.3, and it was really bad. The reason it was so bad is because chaos explosion recasts ophanim before the orbs can go very far. In fact, the first orb only gets about 5 blocks, the second gets 3, and the third only travels 1 block before ophanim is recast, and that’s with the entropy major id that’s supposed to make the orbs go faster. That’s the only reason it was so bad, because in order to reach its full damage potential, you have to be practically inside of the enemy.

I have two proposed changes for how to fix this.

My first proposed change would be to vary the time between chaos explosion spells based on what the spells are. Currently, I think that meteor, ice snake, and teleport all have the right amount of time between casts, and should remain unchanged (though maybe slow down the teleport if the player has blink). I would slow down the time between casts of ophanim just enough so that the third orb reaches a decent distance before ophanim is recast.

My second proposed change would be for ophanim orbs that are cast by chaos explosion to be able to have a minimum lifetime of around 1 second and allow multiple sets ophanim orbs to be alive if they came from chaos explosion. The extra orbs would still disappear after one second if there is a newer set of orbs than them.

 

while we're at it can we make teleport not castable with chaos explosion