Casting While Moving - And new skill "Elemental Burst"

Some will say it's part of the game, and I agree but for a different reason:
the models are hard animated. WOW has upper + lower body animations so you can do both.
POE would need a very expensive model update if you want to make characters run + cast.

You have only one attack while moving, cyclone.
I think there could be at least one similar skill for casters, I'll give it to you soon.
I came up with it while playing my first 85 blade vortex.
Having to stop, even for a second, to keep casting BV felt really unnatural.

Come on, we are masters of magic, heroes with super human abilities,
but we can't fucking move our legs + cast a spell with our hands at the same time?
Give me a break.

Here's a suggestion for having running + casting as a overall function in the game:

First we need a new 3rd position in addition to the default "standing still" and "running";
"walking". The default would be that if you cast while running, you start walking, which could be something like 50% of your normal run speed.

Now you could add some nodes, jewels or unique items that play with these new mechanics,
stuff that augments this penalty. With the right items and passives you could end up almost running at full speed while casting. Or you could have a jewel/key stone with "can not move while casting, but X"; more dmg, cast speed, crit, or other trade off effects.

Hard to tell how awkward it would be to channel while moving.
Like a blight or tendrils "plow"... just running a figure 8 while slowly turning.


Anyways, here is the new spell suggestion:

ELEMENTAL BURST.

The main concept:
Think of charged dash, but instead of ramping it up + releasing it before updating your position,
this skill would update your position all the time, moving you with a flow, like cyclone. You would "ice skate" around.
Your char takes a spectral form, glowing with fire, ice and sparks, dealing flat elemental dmg, all three types simultaneously. You hold it down, like charged dash, and steer it in whatever direction you want to go. It won't stop unless you decide to, or run out of mana.

Tags: spell, aoe, channeling, fire, cold, lightning, duration.
Quality/lvling it up adds dmg/channeling speed.

There is soooooo much you could do with it...
Immune to ailments while using it.
Raise maximum resistances during use.
Every X seconds a Y% chance to inflict randomly chosen ailment.
Cycle a elemental dmg boost, X%more dmg with a randomly chosen element every Y seconds.
Chance on kill/crit to spawn a minion for a short time, a clone of you, using this same spell.

You could also do a chaos version of this, just a ghostly spectre form that poisons and dots everything as you float through enemies while farting a chaos cloud... sexy.

I'm sure this wouldn't be a hard new skill to make,
but balancing it would take time. I guarantee this would become the new most hyped meta spell skill
because people, as cyclone has shown us, love to fly through monsters and melt them in one swoosh.

So you need to make Elemental Burst strong, which it would be with tripple flat ele dmg, and allowing us to fly around. But you also have to add a upkeep downside, like flicker strike needs frenzy charges and righteous fire life regen and overcap fire res. Maybe ELBU could cause you to take X% of all those elements as self inflicted dmg, so that the player needs leech or regen enough to overcome the secondary cost of using this skill?

Let's go boys, upvote to the top, long time, so the devs get to it!!
Best new skill idea 2018, admit that you would lose your hypeshit to this gem if GGG would post it.

No thoughts on the new skill?

Every time i see posts like these i think that over 7 years none of skill suggestions made it into the game.

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heedkid schrieb:

Every time i see posts like these i think that over 7 years none of skill suggestions made it into the game.

Technically the people asking for ball lightning got it. It was a really common request though based on the Piety skill.