TIL Ifrit's Infernal Howl is Line of Sight

[UBERHAXED]

I wouldn't want to try this out, there is the possibility of it going horribly, horribly wrong. Like having everyone in PT get hurt by searing wind? Since you know, they stack at Ifrits' arse.

Not good to try this out.

Wow it's like you're forced to use a specific strategy you found in a video or something...

[LygerZero]

Potatoes/Tomatoes then. I consider AoE/PBAoE/Cones all differently. Helps to keep them straight. Guess it was a City of Heroes thing how we kept them apart, so "Watch for the Cone" Meant the attacks down the middle, "Watch the PBAoE" and "Watch the AoE" meant either they do it around them, or a spot one the map.

And to that answer, no I don't consider Doom Spike an AoE by my definition. It's a Cone. It's all a mater of opinion I guess.

But like I said, it was pretty much just to keep things from overlapping definitions.

Side note: R.I.P. CoH/CoV :'(

[Tupsi]

No point of calling this an exploit or something since you have people who seriously argue what AoE means...LOL. It's like breaking Primal Ex scripts so they ignore your existence in the battle due to a weird conflict with pet scripts.

You're forcing it to interrupt by using "mechanics" against it - TECHNICALLY an exploit but is also an actual game mechanic.

[NyneAlexander]

Nah. Not an exploit. If so, then every mob that runs out of my line of sight and causes me to interrupt a BLM spell should be banned for violating the terms of service. Cheatin a** mobs.

[Ozz]

I seen that video of the solo heal last night on reddit and wondered whether the dev would consider the line of sight mechanic for inferno howl as working as intended or an exploit.

[Shneibel]

Never been able to do Ifrit extreme yet since I haven't bothered doing titan extreme but that sounds like an exploit and will most likely be fixed.

sadly it is not, it is a common game mechanic. The same apply to player where mobs run pass you while you channel spell

[Gwaeron]

I guess the fact that I have every EX weapon and am currently wearing the ifrit bangles on my lodestone means I've never beaten it.

Billzey guessed you had never healed Ifrit, it's right there in the quote you posted. I have all primal weapons too but I sure never healed there.

[Kiroh]

Interestingly this sort of mechanic is somewhat hit and miss with SE. While new mobs (Halicarnassus in Haukke H) have had the LoS patched so that they still hit you with the spell even if you move behind them, old mobs (like mindflayer in AK and pudding boss in WP) can still be interrupted by walking out of their LoS.

They seem to be moving away from the mechanic with new content, without actually patching the old content.

[tymora]

If they "fix" this for Turn 4....I think the entire server will suddenly start wiping....(*hint* pox pox pox)

[wildgalax]

tried it today a few times all unsuccessfully, whenever i ran past him he just like rotated and still hit me with searing wind. Not sure if im not too fast or doing something wrong.