wackydonkey
Diabloii.Net Member
Question about rogue merc
rogue merc cant shoot lightning with +3 skills now?
rogue merc cant shoot lightning with +3 skills now?
Question about rogue merc
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My_Immortal6
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No she can't. That was a bug and has been fixed in the 1.10 patch.wackydonkey said:
if you load +3 to skills onto her, her shots become a lightning hose.
Darkness posted a merc's guide which does describe this in one of the subsections. I tried it with my 1.09 merc in Hell and it wasnt terribly effective - it is more useful in the earlier difficulties I guess.:
Of all the Mercs they benefit most from + to skills equip thanks to a bug in the game code and at +3 to skills, the Rogue gets the infamous lightning hose skill which can be quite devastating. While it does have a relatively short range, it will kill most monsters on normal and nightmare diff very quickly and make short work of a monsters on hell diff as well. When a monster is beyond the range of the hose, the Rogue will usually revert to using normal arrows or fire & cold arrows, but on occaision she will fire the lightning hose at monsters that are well out of range. While the hose it is of little use against Lightning Immunes, against other monsters this ability packs quite a punch and the +3 to skills is not too hard to acquire either.
Darkness posted a merc's guide which does describe this in one of the subsections. I tried it with my 1.09 merc in Hell and it wasnt terribly effective - it is more useful in the earlier difficulties I guess.:
Of all the Mercs they benefit most from + to skills equip thanks to a bug in the game code and at +3 to skills, the Rogue gets the infamous lightning hose skill which can be quite devastating. While it does have a relatively short range, it will kill most monsters on normal and nightmare diff very quickly and make short work of a monsters on hell diff as well. When a monster is beyond the range of the hose, the Rogue will usually revert to using normal arrows or fire & cold arrows, but on occaision she will fire the lightning hose at monsters that are well out of range. While the hose it is of little use against Lightning Immunes, against other monsters this ability packs quite a punch and the +3 to skills is not too hard to acquire either.
Shade
Diabloii.Net Member
The cause was, IIRC, that her skill was actually being used as an index into skills.txt, thus she would go from a normal arrow to Fire Arrows, Cold Arrows and then the 'Lightning Hose'. Dii.net posted a huge list of all possible results but the Lightning Hose was the only semi-useful one that could actually be achieved legitly.Purkake said:
Yes, it still works in 1.09, but it's been fixed in 1.10.
Actually, the Lightning Hose is incredibly effective if it actually hits an enemy. The problem with it is that it's short range (maybe half the screen if you're lucky) and since a Rogue's AI tries to keep her well away from the monsters she doesn't hit with the Hose as often as you'd like her to. The lightning damage she does when she DOES hit is awesome, though...vajurewi said:
