Your attacks attract a swarm of bats that deals 300% weapon damage to enemies within 20 yards over 3 extensible seconds.
(4) Set:
Damage taken is dealt over 20 seconds.
Attacked enemies heal you for 10% health.
You are immune to cold, freeze and poison.
Your move 80% faster for 6 seconds after using Misty Step.
(6) Set:
Enemies hit suffer 0.5% maximum life of the last strongest enemy you attacked. This damage cannot be increased.
Bloodlust
You deal 1000% weapon damage in front of you and increase your
attack speed and that of the swarm of bats by 100% for 2 seconds.
Misty Step
You teleport at a location up to 50 yards away. Cooldown: 3 seconds.
Explainer
Fantasy: Vampire, Bats, Shapeshifting, Any class Best attributes: Area damage, Attack Speed, Life per hit Gameplay: Bloodlust [1] + Misty Step [Right Click]. Position in skill bar can be changed. Vampiric Thirst 2 pieces: Swarm centers on target, or auto-targets, hits every second, fades 3 seconds after attack, isn’t a pet, can be buffed from behind as Bloodlust does not need target. Vampiric Thirst 4 pieces: 100% / 20s = 5% damage taken = 95% damage deferred. Life Regen. Vampiric Thirst 6 pieces: Player attacks foes. Snapshot their higher max life. Player + Swarm apply 0.5% per hit. Enemies use damage reduction. This damage cannot be increased in any way. Impact on itemization. Set: 2 rings + 1 shield = Lots of builds. Other 6p sets don’t buff 6p. In-Geom, Echoing Fury, The Executioner, Flying Dragon (Monk) are solid options.
Vampires carry strong folklore.
To be fun they have to be very scary.
Vampire, I mean darkest ones, have their place in the Diablo Universe.
Unfortunately Trag’Oul’s Avatar, while being oriented on Blood Magic, was never able to fulfill this role.
Yes, it is possible.
The effect happens on 20 yards and many bats have to be displayed to make the effect cool.
Several solutions:
A) 50-100 x 3D model of small bats (base model: Firebat ?)
B) 50-100 x 2D layers of small bats
C) 1 x 2D layer of 50-100 small bats (base model: Locust Swarm ?)
C is preferable for performance.
B is a good compromise for animating bats independantly (erratic + hord movement)
A is the more realistic, but can be non-neutral on GPU on some devices
was an AoE attack due to the wording, and really the only attack I can see you do yourself, so not hitting one of the many adds seems quite impossible in that case.
On a side note, Hammerlin’s swarm is close to what I imagine for the swarm of bats. More horizontal than vertical, but that kind erratic movement, applied on a 20 yards radius.
