[DEV QUESTION] Does hailstorm have a hitcap?

[🌺💗Tazzamorous💗🌺]

Just how Astro Orb had a hitcap adjustment; Does Hailstorm have a hitcap too?
Also, if two satellites of hailstorm have sufficient area to overlap, does that hit a mob twice if it is in both areas?

I ran this build and it really felt like it was not proc'ing even remotely as often as it should have been. Vortex procs every 2.5m so I should be proc'ing almost almost 9 times per second

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3102599063

(on a separate note, i exceeded the 10hit per second hitcap on astro orbs doing this too)

[Mara]

What do you mean by hit cap? The amount of times of the satellites crashing down?
It's limited by the time it takes for the satellites to crash down. Also if the areas overlap, they should hit multiplie times if an enemy doesn't die on first hit.

[🌺💗Tazzamorous💗🌺]

引用自 Mara | Aayph：

What do you mean by hit cap? The amount of times of the satellites crashing down?
It's limited by the time it takes for the satellites to crash down. Also if the areas overlap, they should hit multiplie times if an enemy doesn't die on first hit.

Ah, sorry, my mistake. I meant the vortex upgrade not the normal hailstorm ability.

[Mara]

引用自 Tazzunda：

Ah, sorry, my mistake. I meant the vortex upgrade not the normal hailstorm ability.

No, that should be triggering as fast as it can, at least I wouldn't know why it shouldn't.

[🌺💗Tazzamorous💗🌺]

引用自 Mara | Aayph：

No, that should be triggering as fast as it can, at least I wouldn't know why it shouldn't.

Ok. Really appreciate the answer!

I might play with a super-high-speed hailstorm again to check this out and actually do some math this time, instead of just how it "felt". lol

[Mara]

One thing that might actually happen is that the animation can't keep up :'D
So it's entirely possible that the effects get applied way more often than you would assume from the animation.

[🌺💗Tazzamorous💗🌺]

引用自 Mara | Aayph：

One thing that might actually happen is that the animation can't keep up :'D
So it's entirely possible that the effects get applied way more often than you would assume from the animation.

I can confirm that already. The animation definitely doesn't keep up. What I didn't know was if the damage was somehow linked to the animation. Good to know it isn't.

At the time, i judged it by how fast mobs in front of me died. 5 applications was needed for max stacks, and there was significant overlap between vortexes. A single frost wave would kill any pack. So i was expecting anything in front of me to die in less than ½ second. Some stuff definitely wasn't. Could have been a lot of things that impacted this though. I'll open a new thread if I play with this again and something isn't right.