Volatile Arachnid
Description
Summon spiderlings that chase down your enemy and explode when nearby dealing 100% magic damage. Spawns a toxic fume that deals 20% magic damage every 0.8s while slow enemies by -25%.
Can be recast up to 3 times.
Unlocking
Volatile Arachnid is unlocked via Ungora the Spider Queen.
Usage
The tooltip for Volatile Arachnid is very misleading. Of first note, the spider summoned is not a Spiderling but an Unstable Spider. Despite having a similar templated tooltip, the ability does not spawn the arachnid at the player's location but instead provides an area-of-effect indicator and a damage effect similar to the toxic fume. The tooltip also implies that the ability has 3 charges, but again this is misleading; the ability can be used up to 3 times in quick succession before the cooldown begins, at which time any remaining uses are lost.
The arachnids are very fast, and have health pools as with other summons. However, casting the ability near a hostile target appears to be treated as an attack against them, and AI mobs will aggro to the player until the arachnid has fully spawned. The toxic miasma is a terrain effect with a radius significantly larger than the hitbox of the arachnid, meaning that when they do aggro to the arachnid they will generally be within the miasma effect that spawns.
The toxic miasma is a terrain effect and the AI will attempt to path around it whenever possible. It appears to apply a debuff with a potent damage-over-time effect if a unit enters the area, and the debuff will continue to apply even if leaving the area.
Abilities | |
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Vampire | ●Wolf Form ● Bear Form ● Rat Form ● Human Form ● Toad Form ● Bat Form ● Expose Vein ● Blood Mend ● Dominating Presence ● Blood Hunger |
Blood | ● Blood Rage ● Blood Rite ● Crimson Aegis ● Sanguine Coil ● Shadowbolt ● Veil of Blood ● Crimson Beam ● Heart Strike |
Unholy | ● Corpse Explosion ● Pestilence ● Purgatory ● Unstable Mosquito ● Ward of the Damned ● Veil of Bones ● Volatile Arachnid ● Summon Fallen Angel |
Illusion | ● Mist Trance ● Spectral Assassin ● Spectral Wolf ● Wisp Dance ● Veil of Illusion ● Mirror Strike ● Spectral Guardian |
Chaos | ● Aftershock ● Chaos Barrier ● Chaos Volley ● Power Surge ● Void ● Veil of Chaos ● Chaos Barrage ● Merciless Charge |
Frost | ● Crystal Lance ● Frost Barrier ● Frost Bat ● Ice Nova ● Veil of Frost ● Arctic Leap ● Frost Vortex |
Storm | ● Cyclone ● Polarity Shift ● Discharge ● Ball Lightning ● Lightning Curtain ● Veil of Storm ● Raging Tempest |