Dust of Revelation

[painkiller`]

How does it work exactly?

Does the invisible hero need to remain in the "large radius" for him to be visible? Or does he remain visible for 12 seconds regardless of where he goes once he gets "dusted", so to speak.

Also, what is the "large radius" exactly? The tooltip is useless.

[ELFsensei]

large radius is something like 800, i.e. INSANELY large. think 1.5x the size of pharaoh rocket.

and they stay visible for 12 seconds regardless of where they go

[Jotain]

It places debuff on targets in radius, and while they got that debuff they are revealed

[painkiller`]

Right, so that means units in a target area of 3.14 * 800^2 (2,009,600 seems like a really large number) will be revealed for 12 seconds no matter where they go.

I'm a good judge of distances in HoN, which is why 800 radius seems to be too big going by the area I calculated. Can ElementUser confirm this?

[[Wolf]Trysaeder]

The radius is 1250, which means 4 908 593 square units. That means nothing, If the radius was 10mm, the area would be 3145 square mm, which seems huge but isn't.

On a 16:9 monitor, the screen is roughly 3200x1800 units big.

Darklady's 2000 diameter ultimate is able to exceed the height of my screen.

All enemy units who are within the 1250 aoe have a debuff placed on them.

Revealed: Can be seen/targeted as if you did not have invisibility.

You still need normal sight of the enemy to see them, it won't be like pestilence's ultimate, it will be like bound eye that only affects the debuffed units.

[painkiller`]

The radius is 1250, which means 4 908 593 square units. That means nothing, If the radius was 10mm, the area would be 3145 square mm, which seems huge but isn't.

On a 16:9 monitor, the screen is roughly 3200x1800 units big.

Darklady's 2000 diameter ultimate is able to exceed the height of my screen.

All enemy units who are within the 1250 aoe have a debuff placed on them.

I meant that I am a good judge of what X units of distance in HoN on my screen is.

1250 AoE means the radius is much smaller. I think I'm getting confused because of the terms being used.

[[Wolf]Trysaeder]

AoE always refers to radius.

[LegoPirate]

fun fact: you can purge dust off of yourself/anyone with purgeblade or elec ult

[[S2]ElementUser]

Yeah, area probably makes the spell seem like it covers a super large AoE, so don't use that to express the spell's AoE - just use radius.

Not saying 1250 radius is small, because it's actually quite big

[Gungehammer]

Another question I have is when you use dust, the effect travels with you for a bit as the animation plays. Does it debuff units as you move? Or is it an instant cast within that radius?

[Jotain]

Its instant

[RobertLoggi1]

How does it work exactly?

Does the invisible hero need to remain in the "large radius" for him to be visible? Or does he remain visible for 12 seconds regardless of where he goes once he gets "dusted", so to speak.

Also, what is the "large radius" exactly? The tooltip is useless.

It's a purgeable debuff as stated before. Nullfires bestfriend

[noodle0117]

if you dust a location and an invisible hero walks into the dusted radius after the dust is spread out, can you still see him?

[[Wolf]Trysaeder]

No, it applies the buff the instant you use it.

[Magnets1]

It's "instant" but has 500 cast time (500ms -> 1/2 a second?)

[[S2]ElementUser]

It's "instant" but has 500 cast time (500ms -> 1/2 a second?)

Yes, but what matters is the cast action time & not cast time:

    casttime="500"
    castactiontime="200"

So it actually takes 0.2s for the item to take effect