2009-03-17, 08:05:08
bobbob247 Wrote:you don't see too many players using infernal rocks, partly because a lot of the time, it will hit a creep, and secondly, by the time you can get into range with the rocks, you don't have enough HP to fight.
Indeed, unless you plan on defending or capping cps with them you would upgrade them asap.
bobbob247 Wrote:Using weapons with a high impact damage happens usually earlygame, as afterwards, players tend to get enough HP to compensate.
Enemies will certainly get enough hp to prevent a one hit kill, but 2-3 hits torp hits would still put a dent in anyone's plans either forcing them either back to fountain or further behind creeps.
Meanwhile, I think we're getting a bit offtrack here, my main point is still torps do significant damage based on luck. Let me give an example here: Say there are 3 scouts, 1 light force 2 dark force with the light force scout having a laser. According to the way pheonix fire works both scouts should receive roughly similar damage before both are destroyed. Now this makes sense with the way btanks is played as more units in range of the weapon means roughly distributed damage over those creeps. Now replace the laser with a torp and what happens? After the first hit one scout will have significantly less hp that the other while the other is at full hp. Now, the second hit may destroy the scout entirely or level both scouts' hp but the issue here is that 478-650 is far too large an increment to be distributing damage over or in other words it manages to avoid the creep protection mechanic. What torps has done is equivalent to a laser focus firing on a single scout for 478 damage and not in the actual time it would take,mind you, for a laser to actually do that much damage.
bobbob247 Wrote:Worst comes to worse, flood creeps and laugh.
Indeed creeps are often the answer however the result will be either torps hitting you or simply just farming creeps safely at 1300 range. This is also why I proposed that torps should be changed into a multiple hit weapon as torp users would have to make a choice of either farming creeps or attempting to harass the enemy.