Imbued Ballista takes Hero turn?

[jwallstone]

It seems that when I use an imbued ballista, it takes up the Hero's turn. Meaning that the hero is coming up soon after the ballista on the ATB bar, but after the Ballista goes, the hero gets sent all the way back. I know it's supposed to be the hero casting the spell, but I didn't think it was supposed to take the hero's turn too. Is this supposed to happen, or is this a bug?

I have patch 3.1.

[Asheera]

This was all the time happening in every version. I think it's supposed to work that way, but if it really IS a bug then it's one nasty bug because they didn't fix it all this time

[parcaleste]

It happens from time to time with me as well.

Also the Hive spell is sucking my Hero's spellpower when "attacks". Isn't it said that the Hive have/use it's own spellpower for casting it's Wasp Swarm?

[John.Galt]

This has never happened to me, and I use imbue ballista all the time...

[jwallstone]

I didn't think it happened before either. I don't know if it's patch 3.1, or what.

[Vlaad II]

I remember this bug/feature was in 2.0, but not 1.0.

This is what dschingi replied in 2007 at HC:

Yes, when the ballista shoots it's like your hero cast the spell, so normally your hero and the ballista have the same position in the atb bar afterwards. The last few times I had imbued ballista, the hero always moved 1 step before the ballista after it shot. I don't know if I was just lucky or if this has been changed with the patches, because I also remember one game when my hero always moved one step behind the ballista, so he couldn't act at all after using the imbuing ability.

Due to the fact that the spells from the ballista are cast by the hero, this also means it's affected by Sorcery and the reduced "initiative costs" of mass spells. So when the ballista's turn is over, your hero's new position in the atb bar might be 0.3 points (sorcery) or 0.5 points (mass spells) before the ballista. Unfortunately the bonus will be lost again after ballista's next turn... In theory it should be possible to have two actions in one round when imbuing with a mass spell and casting another mass spell with the hero.

I have no idea if this is intended or not. After all it's not really logical that hero and ballista move to exactly the same position in the atb bar. I'm sure it has been like this for a long time, at least since patch 1.2 or 1.3, although I'm not sure about 1.0.

I hope it's not too confusing

[PhoenixReborn]

Man I had a couple good games with Dschingi, too bad he disappeared.