Hi there,
so I’ve noticed that “next spell” effects like Preparation (Mage passive) or Never Late (Runemaster passive) are consumed by spells that the player doesn’t control, for example by the Lightning Aegis explosion.
Since the description of Preparation and Never Late both states that my “next spell” will be stronger, I would argue this is working as intended.
However, I’m pretty sure nobody wants to use Lightning Aegis and/or similar skills as their damaging skills and boost them with Preparation over one of their chosen class skills. There are probably many other skills that also consume “next spell” effects.
My solution would be to limit Preparation, Never Late and other “next spell” effects to only work on either:
“directly cast” spells, similar to Arcane Focus (Runemaster passive), or
“directly used” skills, similar to Edict of the Scion (Runemaster passive)
PS: We already have one such “next spell” effect limited to only work on directly cast spells - Teleport with Mana Tunnel.
Could you adjust this interaction for Preparation and Never Late in a future patch?
The passive has been in the game for years. A lot of things were designed without realizing how it would affect things later. I don’t doubt the devs would agree that it should only affect directly cast spells. It’s a dud passive otherwise.
I’m pretty sure that this interaction is intended.
Next time, you might want to notice that I said so in my post.
It is the players choice to have skills trigger passively.
It seems you’ve completely missed the point here.
I’m not asking the devs to remove the option to have skills trigger passively. I’m asking the devs to modify “next spell” effects to only work on “direct cast” or “direct use” of a skill.
For example, Frost Claw with Celestial Conflux node can passively trigger Elemental Nova when the projectiles reach target, right? Lets say I have that and the Preparation passive learned.
Preparation is coming off cooldown soon. I cast Frost Claw. Preparation activates. Frost Claw reaches target and procs Elemental Nova.
Before my proposed change, this Elemental Nova proc will eat the Preparation effect.
After my proposed change, this Elemental Nova proc will not eat the Preparation effect, so my next direct spellcast can eat the effect.
