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==Skill Design== | ==Skill Design== | ||
Revision as of 10:09, 17 September 2011
Firebats is a Physical Realm Witch Doctor skill unlocked at level 9. It casts forth a spray of flaming bats, which deal substantial fire damage to enemies in the vicinity.
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[hide]Background
The Witch Doctor spews fire from his mouth whilst bats fly into the flame, sending forth flaming bats to attack enemies in front of the Doctor.
Skill Effects
The following is a very quick list. See the Firebats rune effects page for a more thorough summary of rune effects, or any of the individual rune pages for numbers, screenshots, blue quotes, and much more.
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Firebats Physical Realm (Level 9) |
[e] Cost: 352 Mana per second A swarm of fiery bats burn enemies in front of you for 130% weapon damage per second as Fire. |
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Dire Bats |
[e] Summon fewer but larger bats that travel up to 40 yards and hit for 325% weapon damage per second as Fire. |
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Hungry Bats |
[e] Rapidly summon bats to seek out nearby targets for 210% weapon damage per second as Fire. |
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Plague Bats |
[e] Enemies in the area are plagued. Damage is slow at first, but can increase over time to a maximum of 275% weapon damage per second as Poison. |
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Vampire Bats |
[e] 35% of damage done by the bats is gained as Life. |
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Cloud of Bats |
[e] Call forth a swirl of bats to damage nearby enemies for 358% weapon damage per second as Fire. |
Note: Information is based on a level 60 character and rank 7 runestones.
Skill Design
This skill is a sort of Inferno, dealing fire damage to anything in front of the Witch Doctor for as long as he keeps casting the spell. It takes a moment to start producing damage, and requires the Witch Doctor to remain stationary while he casts it.
There is a steady mana drain while the spell is in use.
Synergies
- No synergies with any of the passive skills are yet known.
Development
Firebats was first seen in the WWI 2008 build. It was originally located in the Spirit Skill Tree, then moved to the Voodoo Skill Tree, before skill trees were removed entirely.
The skill's damage and range was lowered with the introduction of skill runes; unmodified Firebats were much less effective in the BlizzCon 2010 build than they had been back in 2008. Flux commented on using this skill:[1]
The other interesting thing about this skill was the firing mechanism. You couldn’t click it. If you did nothing would happen. Literally; sometimes one bat would squeak out, but usually not even that. The spell dealt very good DoT, but you had to hold down the mouse button to let the bats flow forth. It took a second or two for the full flow to get going, and once it did the damage was great, but you had to commit to using it.
Skill tiers were removed for the July 2011 Press Event, and Firebats became a level 9 skill.
Previous Versions
See the Witch Doctor skill archive for more details on previous versions of Firebats and other Witch Doctor skills.
Media
Firebats can be seen in action on video here:
You can find pictures in the Diablo III screenshot and picture gallery:
Firebats vs. flaming zombies.
Firebats on an Unburied.
Firebats swarm a Cultist.
References
- BlizzCon 2008 Witch Doctor Gameplay Report
- BlizzCon 2009 Full Witch Doctor Skill Trees and Stats
- BlizzCon 2010 Witch Doctor Hands-on Report
- Zediono's translation of JudgeHype's pre-beta report -- IncGamers 1st Aug 2011
- Character Previews From Jay Wilson -- IncGamers 9th Aug 2011
- Witch Doctor Active Skills -- Diablo III 13th Sep 2011
| Classes of the Diablo games |
Skills - Active skills - Skill runes - Passives - Resource - Movement ability [e] Barbarian Demon Hunter Monk Necromancer Witch Doctor Wizard Followers Other Classes Fan-made |
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| Witch Doctor skill categories: Primary Secondary Defensive Terror Decay Voodoo |
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