Improved Vampires : clouds of bats

[DrAzTiK]

Just my opinon but I think it could be less annoying to let clouds of bats allowing a save to avoid some effects . Don't you think ? I mean like SR Insect Plague ( and If I am not wrong David, you are planning to tweak Insect Plague to work like SR ? )

[DavidW]

Just my opinon but I think it could be less annoying to let clouds of bats allowing a save to avoid some effects . Don't you think ? I mean like SR Insect Plague ( and If I am not wrong David, you are planning to tweak Insect Plague to work like SR ? )

 

It's an interesting thought, but most of the arguments for IP don't really go through here. What drove me to change IP was that I really couldn't find an effective way to defend against it, whereas obviously the player doesn't have access to vampire cloud effects.

 

Having said that, I suspect (though I can't recall) that I hot-generate the bat clouds from the vanilla IP spell, so probably this will happen by default in any case.

[DrAzTiK]

ok ^^

 

If it's not indiscreet, are you planning to release SCS v10 soon ?

[AzureDrag0n1]

I use spell immunity: conjuration and that works. They move so slow that you do not have to pre buff to defend against it. If I see them cast it I just use the spell immunity spell and by the time it hits me I am protected.

[aVENGER_(RR)]

Nice work on toning this down for v13.

 

However, I noticed that the damage from multiple bat clouds seems to stack. I'm not sure whether this is intended or not, but getting hit by a couple of these can result in some fairly high damage per second values. This tends to make vampires much deadlier than usual if they are in large groups.