If you look closely, there is a little ugly dude at the bottom right corner waving his hands in the air (like he just does not care) and seemingly calling down a firestorm. It is obviously NOT a fallen (doesn't even slightly resemble it) and the fact that the Witch Doctor is there validates it for me: this is the Pit of Fire skill for the WD. Pit of Fire summons fetishes to bath an area in flames which it certainly seems to be doing. You can argue the flaming debris may be from the firebomb, but it doesn't explain the fire raining down or the small pool of flame next to the creature. My question then is whether or not the design of the fetish creatures and the skill are satisfactory. It is a big departure from the D2 fetishes and seems a bit too generic for my tastes. It's obviously a WIP at this point (like the rest of the game), but what do you, the ever-faithful minions of Blizzard, think about it?
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But let's just pretend it isn't a random explosion 30 feet in the sky that's causing fire to rain down (pretty odd phenomenon isn't it?). I think it explains the dude in the corner although I have no clue as to why he is blue. Cold effect perhaps?
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If you look closer you see that the parts of fire go away from a certain point, which would be the centre.
Those fire parts could be parts of a monster that were blown up and are flying outwards like they do in the picture.
It could also be part of a skill which has a explosion like thing which blasts outward, which is a skill the Witch Doctor has, and it´s called Flaming Skull? Don't know, he spams it in the gameplay video however.
No matter how you look at it, it's not a rain like effect but more a outwards explosion.
SOME of the flames are shot out at an arc away from the player and I do agree it looks like an outward blast, but look at the fire in the upper left corner. It doesn't look like it came from such an explosion because of its isolation and direction. There is also fire raining down towards the WD's line of sight. It would have to be a really odd explosion and "Flaming Skull" looks nothing like it (not even the rune-enhanced versions).
That aside, what would you identify that monster as then?
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Touche good sir. It's just unfortunate that others have not yet commented. The more opinions the better. Maybe we can really get something out of this pic (nothing groundbreaking, but it may be diablowiki worthy if some proof were to reveal itself).
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I think the small creature in ther corner of the picture is indeed odd. It doesn't look like any monster we have seen yet and can possibly be a fetish from any of the WD's spell.
But i think the fire raining from the high is not the fire pit skill. First of, the fire pool over the monster feet is cleary the firebomb skill. You can even see the fire spirit animation there.
The fire raining down from the skill imo is the death animation of the fire enchanted monsters. Basically because the debrils looks like body parts and because the flamee have a different colour (it doesn't looks like the fire pool and the fire debrils would share the same origin). The ones over the WD head is body parts of the defeated monster that bounced on the wall behind the WD.
Perhaps the angle in which we are viewing it makes it look like it's casting.
It may just be falling to its death or something like that, and the blue "aura" seems like it's being affected by a/the spell, not casting any.
In any case, it seems unlikely it is casting it
I'd agree with Airandius, its fragments bouncing off the wall, and not some 'rain of fire' kind of spell
The little guy is a little weird though
If you look closely, there is a little ugly dude at the bottom right corner waving his hands in the air (like he just does not care) and seemingly calling down a firestorm. It is obviously NOT a fallen (doesn't even slightly resemble it) and the fact that the Witch Doctor is there validates it for me: this is the Pit of Fire skill for the WD. Pit of Fire summons fetishes to bath an area in flames which it certainly seems to be doing. You can argue the flaming debris may be from the firebomb, but it doesn't explain the fire raining down or the small pool of flame next to the creature. My question then is whether or not the design of the fetish creatures and the skill are satisfactory. It is a big departure from the D2 fetishes and seems a bit too generic for my tastes. It's obviously a WIP at this point (like the rest of the game), but what do you, the ever-faithful minions of Blizzard, think about it?
Or it could be that...
Yep it's totally that.
But let's just pretend it isn't a random explosion 30 feet in the sky that's causing fire to rain down (pretty odd phenomenon isn't it?). I think it explains the dude in the corner although I have no clue as to why he is blue. Cold effect perhaps?
SOME of the flames are shot out at an arc away from the player and I do agree it looks like an outward blast, but look at the fire in the upper left corner. It doesn't look like it came from such an explosion because of its isolation and direction. There is also fire raining down towards the WD's line of sight. It would have to be a really odd explosion and "Flaming Skull" looks nothing like it (not even the rune-enhanced versions).
That aside, what would you identify that monster as then?
But i think the fire raining from the high is not the fire pit skill. First of, the fire pool over the monster feet is cleary the firebomb skill. You can even see the fire spirit animation there.
The fire raining down from the skill imo is the death animation of the fire enchanted monsters. Basically because the debrils looks like body parts and because the flamee have a different colour (it doesn't looks like the fire pool and the fire debrils would share the same origin). The ones over the WD head is body parts of the defeated monster that bounced on the wall behind the WD.
This is my theory...
It may just be falling to its death or something like that, and the blue "aura" seems like it's being affected by a/the spell, not casting any.
In any case, it seems unlikely it is casting it
I'd agree with Airandius, its fragments bouncing off the wall, and not some 'rain of fire' kind of spell
The little guy is a little weird though
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