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fEAthEr
Profile Joined July 2004
Canada482 Posts
September 26 2004 08:37 GMT
#1
so..heres another one of those quirky questions from me..

heh..sorry..

Irradiate
1) how much damage/second does it do?
2) does the damage/second ratio change when you stack them?
- IE irraditing 2 vessels and hosing some guys workerline.

heh..sorry i know this ones gonna be hard to dig up xD
Payt1
Profile Joined May 2004
418 Posts
September 26 2004 08:38 GMT
#2
I'm not sure about a), but yes, it does stack.
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pheered.user
Profile Joined March 2003
United States2603 Posts
September 26 2004 08:38 GMT
#3
im pretty sure you can stack irrad for example

1sci vessel iradiated and 1 muta is 2x more damage than just the muta if they are all directly on top of each other, but of course i could be wrong.
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[vital]Myth
Profile Joined May 2003
United States588 Posts
September 26 2004 09:04 GMT
#4
These are things you can very easily test out if you just play against a comp in single player and run the game in slow mode.

Also visit http://www.battle.net/scc for this type of question.
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aseq
Profile Joined January 2003
Netherlands3975 Posts
September 26 2004 09:09 GMT
#5
irradiate does 3.5 damage per hit, i'm not sure how long 1 hit is, could be 1 second (normal time). In total, it does 250 hp damage.
this means only ultra's survive...
irradiate's stack infinitely, but of course you can only irradiate each unit once, doing this twice doesn't add damage but renews the spell.

all from memory so hope it right.
Tien
Profile Joined January 2003
Russian Federation4447 Posts
September 26 2004 09:25 GMT
#6
Devourers survive too, if it is at full health which is 250. So they will be left with like 10-20 health.
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SpuniasauR
Profile Joined September 2003
Australia1500 Posts
September 26 2004 09:31 GMT
#7
heh cuz of regen, thats cute
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SpiriT-DemoN-
Profile Joined January 2003
United States684 Posts
September 26 2004 10:05 GMT
#8
ya they are right, stacking does increase dmg.. i think it does like 10 dmg per second.. i notice when i'm hovering over drones with 2 sci vessels irradiated, it usually takes 3 seconds to kill them. just a guess tho
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hasuwar
Profile Joined April 2003
7365 Posts
September 26 2004 10:12 GMT
#9
when you stack them, it's just like doing a double irridiate.. that guy said 3.5/s, i thought it was three, but I never pay attention that much..so if you stack two irridiated vessels ontop of one another, it'll be doing 7/s. irridate 6, send them to a mineral pile to stack, and go melt his whole ling force when he's going ultra ling! I wonder if you stacked like 12, if scourge would even be able to get close enough to kill them
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koit
Profile Joined July 2004
United States450 Posts
September 26 2004 10:30 GMT
#10
excal, I summon thee
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SoMuchBetter
Profile Blog Joined April 2003
Australia10606 Posts
September 26 2004 11:13 GMT
#11
of course, every zerg user would be grateful if you irradiated 12 of your vessels and stacked them
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Excalibur_Z
Profile Joined October 2002
United States12235 Posts
September 26 2004 11:59 GMT
#12
On September 26 2004 19:30 koit wrote:
excal, I summon thee


haha sorry, long day at work. From what I've seen, Irradiate probably does 3.5 damage every 5 frames (which would be roughly 13 damage per second on Fastest). My observations are probably a bit sketchy but that's most likely accurate.

And yes it stacks additively.
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Beast_Bg
Profile Joined October 2002
Bulgaria1623 Posts
Last Edited: 2004-09-26 16:52:45
September 26 2004 16:46 GMT
#13
"I wonder if you stacked like 12, if scourge would even be able to get close enough to kill them"
I think when you have 2 irradiated vessels and running from scourges ,they die from the irradiate usually before killing the vessels.The zerg could prolly micro better though , cause if you cant run..But certainly can help in some situations.
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baal
Profile Joined March 2003
10533 Posts
September 26 2004 17:20 GMT
#14
wonder why 2 vessels are the standard to kill drones... ill irradiate 10 vessels >
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Twisted
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
Netherlands13554 Posts
September 26 2004 17:37 GMT
#15
Oh man, I once did that to some zerg, I iradiated like 5 vessels and moved over like a 100 zerglings (was a long time ago, they were all in his main), it was instant death for the zerglings.

Vessels leave a trail of blood, so cool
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baal
Profile Joined March 2003
10533 Posts
September 26 2004 18:45 GMT
#16
i never thought that you could overlapp irradiate damage when its applied to mechanical units, i thought the 2 vessel trick was only to cover more area not to kill faster o___o;
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JustFun
Profile Joined September 2004
Estonia77 Posts
September 26 2004 20:36 GMT
#17
well i used irritated vessels front of marines as shield against mass cracklings in sc ..was wonderful Actually terrans who is massing vessels are damn anoying
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IPS.ZeRo
Profile Joined April 2003
Germany1142 Posts
September 26 2004 23:15 GMT
#18
the problem with 12 vessels is that you have to be really fast
You have to be a little bit outside his base so he can't see it but if you are not fast enough the first irradiate is gone when you have casted the 12th and have flew to his base
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tehredbandit
Profile Joined June 2004
United States77 Posts
September 26 2004 23:29 GMT
#19
On September 27 2004 02:20 baal wrote:
wonder why 2 vessels are the standard to kill drones... ill irradiate 10 vessels >


because its most coast effective, one is to little, 2 is just enough. send 10 they could get gg'd, and then you'd be fucked by losing so much money off the vessles which you need for mid-late game for ultraz and guards.
ahk-gosu
Profile Joined July 2004
Korea (South)2099 Posts
September 27 2004 09:55 GMT
#20
a godly trick i used to do vs lings hitting my tanks = defense matrix and irradiate on my tank = gg zerglings.
this also works nicely on scis.
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koit
Profile Joined July 2004
United States450 Posts
September 27 2004 10:29 GMT
#21
On September 26 2004 20:59 Excalibur_Z wrote:
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On September 26 2004 19:30 koit wrote:
excal, I summon thee


haha sorry, long day at work. From what I've seen, Irradiate probably does 3.5 damage every 5 frames (which would be roughly 13 damage per second on Fastest). My observations are probably a bit sketchy but that's most likely accurate.

And yes it stacks additively.


thanks yo :D
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fenixdown
Profile Blog Joined April 2004
Colombia320 Posts
September 28 2004 02:01 GMT
#22
On September 27 2004 18:55 ahk-gosu wrote:
a godly trick i used to do vs lings hitting my tanks = defense matrix and irradiate on my tank = gg zerglings.
this also works nicely on scis.


I was thinking on that too, pretty cool
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ahk-gosu
Profile Joined July 2004
Korea (South)2099 Posts
September 28 2004 03:01 GMT
#23
remember that the defense matrix = 250 temporary damage shielding.
imagine an arbitor or a carrier protoss ally with defense matrix on it.
o wow.
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GroT
Profile Blog Joined January 2004
Belgium3003 Posts
September 28 2004 03:59 GMT
#24
On September 27 2004 08:29 tehredbandit wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 27 2004 02:20 baal wrote:
wonder why 2 vessels are the standard to kill drones... ill irradiate 10 vessels >


because its most coast effective, one is to little, 2 is just enough. send 10 they could get gg'd, and then you'd be fucked by losing so much money off the vessles which you need for mid-late game for ultraz and guards.


no, it's because one vessel can't irradiate itself and 2 is the next best thing
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pheered.user
Profile Joined March 2003
United States2603 Posts
September 28 2004 04:46 GMT
#25
yeah but grot, i could still only irrad 1 sci and send it you dont necesarily have to send both so im thinking whoever origionally thought of the idea was thinking 2 was an economical number and everyone else just copied as usual without really thinking about the idea.
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GroT
Profile Blog Joined January 2004
Belgium3003 Posts
September 28 2004 05:59 GMT
#26
nah not really, the vessel wouldn't reach the drones in time.. he'd dodge with drones and you wouldn't catch up

i'm nagging about details anyway, i apologize
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FakeSteve[TPR]
Profile Blog Joined July 2003
Valhalla18444 Posts
September 28 2004 09:19 GMT
#27
i think its all about maximized surface area in relation to how useful irradiate is
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Empyrean
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
16962 Posts
September 28 2004 10:35 GMT
#28
Have you ever Irradiated a Zerg unit and cast Matrix on it? It looks funny ^_^a
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[CS]Pablo
Profile Joined September 2002
Brazil338 Posts
September 29 2004 00:22 GMT
#29
On September 28 2004 12:01 ahk-gosu wrote:
remember that the defense matrix = 250 temporary damage shielding.
imagine an arbitor or a carrier protoss ally with defense matrix on it.
o wow.


once a guy misclicked the EMP shortcut and D-matrixed my carriers. He typed GG right away
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Malmis
Profile Blog Joined May 2003
Sweden1569 Posts
September 29 2004 01:14 GMT
#30
Irradiate does 249 dmg
Units with D-matrix takes 57 dmg from Irradiate

About that vessel stack vs scourge:
12 vessel, 24 scourge
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1 vessel dies :O
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GroT
Profile Blog Joined January 2004
Belgium3003 Posts
September 29 2004 04:28 GMT
#31
nice malmis ;o
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Empyrean
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
16962 Posts
September 29 2004 06:25 GMT
#32
:O
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Empyrean
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
16962 Posts
September 29 2004 06:27 GMT
#33
I just use the hotkeys to cast spells. I remembering doing something like that once, but I plagued units instead of dark swarming them tt
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ObsoleteLogic
Profile Joined February 2003
United States3676 Posts
September 29 2004 06:50 GMT
#34
On September 26 2004 20:59 Excalibur_Z wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 26 2004 19:30 koit wrote:
excal, I summon thee


haha sorry, long day at work. From what I've seen, Irradiate probably does 3.5 damage every 5 frames (which would be roughly 13 damage per second on Fastest). My observations are probably a bit sketchy but that's most likely accurate.

And yes it stacks additively.



Actually, I think its closer to 11 damage per second Excal. Kills a lurker in just about 13 seconds, 125 hps, lurker has 1 default armor. That equates to a high 9 or something per second, but my timing wasn't exact. Anywho.

So all you kids out there playing Z, remember to upgrade your armor (:
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FakeSteve[TPR]
Profile Blog Joined July 2003
Valhalla18444 Posts
September 29 2004 09:13 GMT
#35
plague/irradiate/storm independant of armor?
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pheered.user
Profile Joined March 2003
United States2603 Posts
September 29 2004 09:14 GMT
#36
i thought armor had nothing to do with spells?
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Excalibur_Z
Profile Joined October 2002
United States12235 Posts
September 29 2004 09:44 GMT
#37
On September 29 2004 15:50 ObsoleteLogic wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 26 2004 20:59 Excalibur_Z wrote:
On September 26 2004 19:30 koit wrote:
excal, I summon thee


haha sorry, long day at work. From what I've seen, Irradiate probably does 3.5 damage every 5 frames (which would be roughly 13 damage per second on Fastest). My observations are probably a bit sketchy but that's most likely accurate.

And yes it stacks additively.



Actually, I think its closer to 11 damage per second Excal. Kills a lurker in just about 13 seconds, 125 hps, lurker has 1 default armor. That equates to a high 9 or something per second, but my timing wasn't exact. Anywho.

So all you kids out there playing Z, remember to upgrade your armor (:


Except Irradiate (like all damage over time spells) ignores armor.
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Excalibur_Z
Profile Joined October 2002
United States12235 Posts
September 29 2004 11:29 GMT
#38
Okay here's the conclusive info.

Irradiate does 10 damage per second on Fastest, 250 total. Fastest runs at 20 frames per second. That means Irradiate does 3.33 damage about every 7 frames. On every third damage tic, it counts 6 frames instead of 7. On every third damage tic, it does 4 damage instead of 3.
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Malmis
Profile Blog Joined May 2003
Sweden1569 Posts
September 29 2004 13:39 GMT
#39
T_T Why does my irradiated units only take 249 points of damage?
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wakiki
Profile Joined September 2004
United States65 Posts
September 29 2004 14:34 GMT
#40
Also what works really well is, if your army is composed mostly of metal units, and he has Zealots, is you Irradiate his Interceptors. Since Interceptors tend to swarm near the units they are attacking, as do Zealots, the Irradiate will kill the Zealots very effeciently. You may have difficulty clicking the Interceptors at first, but don't worry - once he has 24 Carriers, you won't have any problems with that.
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Malmis
Profile Blog Joined May 2003
Sweden1569 Posts
Last Edited: 2004-09-29 20:29:29
September 29 2004 15:25 GMT
#41
If you are going something crazy as that vs P, isn't it just smarter to just Irradiate your own units? :O
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jtan
Profile Blog Joined April 2003
Sweden5891 Posts
September 29 2004 21:41 GMT
#42
hmm yeah haha. Irratiated and def.matrix a tank to kill the zealots. Thats funny
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Harisu
Profile Joined September 2004
119 Posts
October 16 2004 14:26 GMT
#43
a fleet of irad+matrixed vessels can fly over hydras or anything and just kill anything under them almost immediately.
yeehaw
Profile Joined October 2004
San Marino888 Posts
October 16 2004 17:33 GMT
#44
THat is because he can kill any unit you irradiate,def matrix or not. He has 24 carriers remember? But seriously, that was a nice tip. Brilliant thinking on your part.
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aseq
Profile Joined January 2003
Netherlands3975 Posts
October 16 2004 18:25 GMT
#45
But once he has 24 carriers, he will have only
200 - 24*6 = 56 / 2 = 28 zeals left MAX (with workers it'll probable not get higher than 10 zeals, so that would make them very to irrad, even if you use irrad on the interceptors^^. I think, in this case you're better off worrying about the carriers first.
Pob
Profile Joined February 2004
880 Posts
October 16 2004 19:30 GMT
#46
if he has 24 carriers the game is over
JoeUser
Profile Joined April 2004
United States684 Posts
October 17 2004 05:30 GMT
#47
On October 17 2004 04:30 Pob wrote:
if he has 24 carriers the game is over

exxxxxxxxxactly.
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