Idea regarding the electric portal

[tardy hound]

It would be neat if the portal had some actual damage potential. Something like sending the an electric spell through it creating an electric beam between or coming out of one of the the portals, or something similar for acid and/or lightning.

[soft root]

This is an okay idea I just don't think it's thematically what the devs want out of the spell

The focus for elec has always been movement

Hence why it had four spells that all effectively did the same thing

[tardy hound]

my issue with that is that the electric portal last test felt functionally useless aside from gathering collectables

no real reason to use it in combat, or out of it

the dash was effectively just the far better option

cus they take wayyyyy too long to set up for what it does

[hollow berry]

Portal does have it's uses.
Me and my friend in the last beta, used it to swiftly move from point to point. It made traversing the maps so much easier because we'd both go to one objective, he'd place a portal down, and run to the next one while I'd stay back and complete it. Then, he'd teleport back and help me, and then we'd instantly travel to the next objective and repeat if we had to.

[soft root]

The problem is that this doesn't actually do anything

There's no missionwide time limit, roaming enemies don't pose a large enough threat to make traversal via horse an issue

[tardy hound]

I guess there is some speedrunning potential then but thats kinda it. as Sammy said, no missionwide time limit, and honestly half the fun is just scouring the entire map. thats not really a use case that makes it any more viable for anything, its a convenience under a specific circumstance at most

[jolly barn]

atm portal is used to quickly go from A to B, and you can throw spell projectiles through it and it will exit from the other portal.
Our new element should greatly use the portal for combos, which will definitely increase the usefulness of this spell

[tardy hound]

that will be nice! cus currently the "quickly go from A to B" feels like its never actually used. my friends and I are always scouring the map, and when ding objectives there is generally no need to instantly go back to an area we have already been in, with almost every spell generally having far better usage than wasting a slot for a portal (especially the voodo heal spells. why bother using a portal spell thats barely a convenience for very brief periods when you could take a self or party heal instead?)

Honestly would have been neat if y'all kept electric dash and had dashing through a portal boost it or something, deal more damage etc etc. cus the new Boing is frankly worse than the dash, does literally nothing Dx

[ivory anchor]

Last night my buddies were having this exact conversation with using choices of words I wouldn’t wish to repeat. The biggest complaint was mostly the fact that boing once you land or launch doesn’t create a space of electricity so that if they did bring acid it’d be able to trigger it.

Aside from the topic of boing I look forward to the new element that’s coming. But this possibility to use portals similar to wattson’s ability from apex would be so cool to do!