Aiming Shockwave?

[Holdernessjason]

Question about where to aim shockwave.
I think I’m doing something wrong cause I know when to cast my rank 10 shockwave but sometimes it hits like a truck and other times the bosses health doesn’t move. I look and I’m doing 3 million DoT damage with lifesteal but nothing happens. Other times the boss gets one shotted. I’ve tried looking and someone said it misses a lot and to aim just outside their hit box but that doesn’t seem to help. I wait till I have all my buffs up and just shake my head when it doesn’t move the bosses life. And other times I do it and boom, one shot.
I think it comes down to the fact that I’m missing. Any help would be greatly appreciated cause I’m about fed up with it.

[Romme]

It's not missing, you just need to crit with it. After they devs changed cooldown/alacrity structure it just takes too long to gain shockwave charges.

Gameplay feels bad because you wait 25 seconds to build up your 3 shockwave charges for the next tos proc, but when you don't crit your damage tickles and you need to wait another 30s to have a chance to do damage again.

https://forum.makingfun.com/forum/et...ust-2021/page8

My suggestions for devs if they ever decide to balance

[Holdernessjason]

Yea, wasn’t sure if the non crits was what I was seeing happening. It’s just amazing the difference between and crit and a non crit I guess. I mean ToS is crazy but the waiting around does suck a bit. Especially when you don’t crit.

Thank you for the replay and confirmation that I’m not missing out on something, just RnG. I was racking my brain trying to understand the hit zone for shockwave. Haha

[Kardinaal]

The hit zone for shockwave kind of looks like a key hole, with your warrior in the center of the circle part. It hits everyone around you, and in the direction you are aiming it hits further away.

I also have theory crafted a shockwave build to maximise crit chance so you have more chance of chaining multiple crits together: https://forum.makingfun.com/forum/et...903#post204903

haven’t tried it yet, but it should give you more consistent crits so you should do damage more consistently.