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SirChancelotSirChancelot Member, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
in General Discussion
So
At the end of that 30 min video where Stephen blinks and then starts shadow dashing and claims it's his god powers.

Any one else think that was an augment alteration applied to the blink ability? Either a rogue shadow effect, or cleric death effect?

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  • DygzDygz Member, Braver of Worlds, Kickstarter, Alpha One, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
    I was thinking it might be Rush.
  • AzheraeAzherae Member, Alpha One, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
    SirChancelot wrote: »
    So
    At the end of that 30 min video where Stephen blinks and then starts shadow dashing and claims it's his god powers.

    Any one else think that was an augment alteration applied to the blink ability? Either a rogue shadow effect, or cleric death effect?

    I don't think it was an Augment on Blink.

    The implication is that you can't activate the non-augmented version of a skill separately. And we see the character use actual blink multiple times, but I believe we also saw that 'Shadow Dash' used separately without any Blink required first.

    I 'vote' that there's no way to tell if that's an Augmented anything, or just a secondary faster movement ability for the Mage. And believe me, I'd love it to be an Augment to think on, I just don't think it is yet.
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  • SirChancelotSirChancelot Member, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
    edited May 2022
    Dygz wrote: »
    I was thinking it might be Rush.

    I thought about that too, but since he first showed a basic looking blink (which I think should only be a mage) and it didn't require a target like a charge/rush ability normally does in other games, I ended up thinking it was an augmented blink.

    Clearly all speculation though. Either way was cool to finally see something new
  • SirChancelotSirChancelot Member, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
    Azherae wrote: »
    SirChancelot wrote: »
    So
    At the end of that 30 min video where Stephen blinks and then starts shadow dashing and claims it's his god powers.

    Any one else think that was an augment alteration applied to the blink ability? Either a rogue shadow effect, or cleric death effect?

    I don't think it was an Augment on Blink.

    The implication is that you can't activate the non-augmented version of a skill separately. And we see the character use actual blink multiple times, but I believe we also saw that 'Shadow Dash' used separately without any Blink required first.

    I 'vote' that there's no way to tell if that's an Augmented anything, or just a secondary faster movement ability for the Mage. And believe me, I'd love it to be an Augment to think on, I just don't think it is yet.

    Keep in mind, whenever he does these things, he has whatever abilities he wants without constraints. Maybe he just has the basic, and an augmented version in his bar, or he augmented it on the fly for the video.
    I guess it could just be a whole new ability, but good god. If a mage can blink and do that dash thing as two different abilities how is anyone supposed to catch them?

    As I said though, it was cool seeing something new either way.
  • SongcallerSongcaller Member, Alpha One, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
    Shadow steps are cool hehe.
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  • Frostshot1Frostshot1 Member
    To me it just looked like he was spamming the blink ability without cool downs. Which looked pretty bad ass imo.
  • DygzDygz Member, Braver of Worlds, Kickstarter, Alpha One, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
    Blink is purple. The other ability he used was green, IIRC.
  • StevenSharifStevenSharif Member, Avatar of the Phoenix, Kickstarter, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
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  • SirChancelotSirChancelot Member, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
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  • TheDarkSorcererTheDarkSorcerer Member, Alpha Two
    edited May 2022
    Frostshot wrote: »
    To me it just looked like he was spamming the blink ability without cool downs. Which looked pretty bad ass imo.

    I really hope teleport/blink abilities work like Streak in ESO. The mag cost increases the more you spam it. So you can really only spam it 3-4 times before it exhausts your magic bar. Forces you to make decisions wisely but good for the classes that aren't tanky to get in and out of combat quick.
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  • VoxtriumVoxtrium Member, Alpha Two
    edited May 2022
    It definitely feels a bit like he gave us a tease about the augmented ability, @TheDarkSorcerer referenced the ESO ability streak. I am thinking based on the use Steven showed us that the blink we had already seen was the basic ability, the 2nd was an augment applied to said ability however acted like the one in ESO, where spamming increased cost until mana was completely drained. Based on how he continued that dash for an extended period at one point, it is possible he had no CD and I bet he did but it felt more like he was teasing a ramping cost dash ability augmented off the blink.
  • HiddenDaggerInnHiddenDaggerInn Member, Alpha One, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
    Not sure what it is, but they wouldnt of made a sweet animation and sound for it, if it wasn't being used somewhere:)
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