Devourers are good

@Peter,
Testing doesn't mean just playing the game.
testing, is purposely encountering Devourers in certain player-intended situations, and measuring and/or observing what happens, in detail.

therefore DeviantLightning is correct: there is a need to test whether or not the worms auto-hit the player when they come out.

I don't think they do, though.
from what I've seen, they pop-up first and then start the attack-swing animation.
perhaps Desync is what makes the player stay in place long enough - server side - to be hit by the swing, but I agree Lockstep is needed to know for sure.

^they don't automatically hit when they pop-up.

No need for lock-step to test this, since i run over them constantly in dark forest maps without getting hit once. Get like 40% move speed and just keep on running when they pop.

Wait for all to pop and then engage them.

I think some people just freeze up or something when they pop instead of staying calm and reacting to the situation correctly.

i never found devourers to be an issue, sometimes a good rolled rare one can pack a punch though, but that's about it.

Peace,

-Boem-

edit : desync, obviously, can also be the cause of getting hit, but doesn't that apply to any given situation in PoE?

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DeviantLightning wrote:

I've heard that Devourers hit you as they emerge, but never bothered testing this behavior. And it was the major complaint since it somehow bypassed Immortal Call? I don't know whether that's an artifact of desync or latency or what or it's hard-coded into the game.

I will oncur that perhaps more stringent testing should be performed; my own experiences in less-controlled situations have been pretty inconsistent on the matter. Of course, latency and/or desync could play a huge role there, too.

As for Immortal Call, that seems a little odd. Perhaps they were referring to the possibility of simultaneous hits allowing for a high damage dump before the CWDT triggered? I have a stunner that just manually-casts IC, and I can confirm over and over that it entirely eliminates their damage output. (barring, of course, any mods or auras that add elemental damage)