Wave of Force
Wave of Force
- Active Skill
- Description: Project a wave of force outwards, repelling enemies and projectiles.
- Max Rank: 1
- Rank 1: 1-8 damage.
- Mana cost: 25
This defensive spell casts a nova-like blast of light that deals just minor damage, but that shoves back enemies and projectiles.
Wave of Force is used twice in the Wizard Trailer released at Blizzcon 2008. The first is used in a room of skeletons -- it does little damage to the skeletons, but blasts all the destructibles in the room to glorious pieces. In the second example, the Wizard uses it while slowing down time, waiting for a group of skeletons' projectiles to come close, and then reflecting them back toward them.
It's hard to know how many scenarios in a fast-paced game like this where you could really benefit from using Slow Time and then Wave of Force to repel projectiles -- Out of the 8 projectiles in the above screenshot, only one or two actually came back to strike their targets. It will be interesting to see what practical uses there are for this spell as more gameplay videos unfold.
