Scarab Swarm Feedback

[PsiWarp]

Played with new Inaros for a while, some likes and dislikes:

Likes:

• The thematic change from radial 5 meter spread to an actual flying swarm of insects looks awesome.
• Swarm Kavats! Cat army at your command.
• Interesting how the damage per half second is tied to Inaros' max health instead of Ability Strength. Half second to apply Corrosive procs also stacks the status up to 10 or more very quickly.

Dislikes:

• Line of sight and cone-shaped targeting are wonky, especially when there is height difference and when my Inaros is in middle of a bullet jump (his model is facing away from enemies therefore no targeting)
• On cast, swarm projectiles have a slow travel time, and dissolve away too fast when their initial targets die before they are hit by the swarm, which happens a lot when in squads.
• Swarm Kavats has very short lifespans not affected by Duration mods.

Suggestions:

1. Expand the cone to 180 degrees similar to Desiccation, and LOS based on where the camera is facing (not where Inaros' model is facing).
2. Faster swarm projectile speed. Let them linger around for time like Oberon's Smite orb projectiles, and home-in on new enemies walking nearby.
3. Increase Swarm Kavat duration from 20~ seconds to 45 seconds. Let this apply to Desiccation's Curse as well.
   • Since Swarm Kavats need time to position and claw at enemies to apply their own Scarab Swarm, and that doesn't spread on its own unlike the base Scarab Swarm ability, give the cats' AI more time to do something.
   • Alternative suggestion, give the Swarm Kavats a 5 meter radius, which launches a swarm projectile to spread Scarab Swarm to a nearby enemy in intervals (like the base ability). This compensates slightly for their AI attack algorithm delays.

[SweetAnubis]

love ur suggestions! u actually covered most of the issues

 

i'd also add in bring back its healing capabilities that were dropped

 

and either increase the corrosive tick times to be more frequent or the corrosive base damage. it's far too weak to rly function as any kind of armor stripper as is and thats even with maxed out health on inaros.