For those wondering how exactly this ability works:
- Two copies of yourself will spawn next to you with 10% of your max HP.
- These holograms will auto-attack enemies for very low damage
- They will last for 15 seconds or until they die.
- A buff will be applied to you for 6 seconds that will reduce your current threat. When this buff expires or is removed, the threat will be returned.
- When the holograms spawn, they will have the exact same amount of threat that you did prior to casting the ability.
- This ability is less effective if you use it before you have generated threat.
- This ability is less effective if you are in melee range of the enemies (in melee range you will take aggro at 110% threat, outside of melee range you will take aggro at 130% threat).
This ability can sometime be useful at low levels as you can do a bit of damage before taking aggro from the holograms. At max level this won't do much other than buy you some time to run away from something. Most abilities at level 120 generate 10-30k threat, this ability only reduces yours by 5k temporarily.
Spell
Hyper Organic Light Originator
Physical
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As far as I have tested, this spell:
- Does not make your PVP enemy lose target. Thus it can't be used to interrupt a spellcast.
- Does make your PVE enemy lose target. Thus, dropping some aggro and potentially making it attack your copies.
- Copies have 10% of your hp so if you're fighting an enemy same level as you they're likely to get oneshotted.
- They do little to no damage.
Edit: I've also noticed sometimes the copies refuse to attack and instead just follow you around. I haven't been able to identify what circumstances cause this behaviour.
All the Mechagnomes racial traits.
1) Mastercraft - Passive (crafting tools)
2) Skeleton Pinkie - Passive (lockpicking)
3) Hyper Organic Light Originator - Ability (Summon Ability)
4) Combat Analysis - Passive (Stat Buff)
5) Emergency Failsafe - Passive (Self Heal)
Racial Mount = [item=174067] (All ally chars can ride)
Tooltip
Summon Organic Light duplicates to distract your foes for 15 sec.
Spell facts
Datamined from the current retail build. Numbers that scale with level or stats are shown at their base value.
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