Lessen impact of Blast Off on flying enemies please

[Hedgefund]

Let me walk through something I just experienced.

 

To set the stage, I was doing Number 6's first mission, which takes place on the map named "Zone/Mission: IOM_PRAETORIA_RUINED_CITY".   This is an outdoor instance.  I was playing a Pyro controller running Incendiary Aura which has a chance to proc a "blast off" effect, which sends enemies into the air..  

 

To satisfy one of the objectives to free a hostage, I had to defeat a spawn that included a Greater Devoured.  The Greater Devoured summoned a pair of Swarm entities (as usual).  I defeated everyone (I thought) and waited a bit figuring a Swarm flew away and they always return so I just stayed put.  After a bit of waiting I searched around at ground level, nothing.  Then I remembered I've seen odd effects on flying entities with Blast Off before, so I flew up and there it was, at the very top of the map (over 800 feet up).  

 

I remembered to do that because previously on a Hamidon Seed encounter I inadvertently blasted a Seedling to the top of the First Ward zone.  

 

Now, I don't want to get bogged into details of what the right behavior is, I just don't think it should be an entity at the top of a map that does not come back down.  If I were to offer a suggestion on how to mitigate it would be a max blast off height of, I dunno, 100 feet.  

 

Edited 4 hours ago by Hedgefund

[Psyonico]

Is it flying enemies that trigger this?

 

I've just assumed it's a bug,  so filed a bug report when I first noticed it happening.   If it really is working as intended then yes,  I agree,  it should be changed. 

[Hedgefund]

I wavered on whether to write this up as a bug or suggestion but I didn't want a bug to get shut down with "that's intended behavior, issue closed" so went with a suggestion.  I do think it's probably a bug.

 

To the question, I can't say for sure only flyers trigger it, but what I can say is when I've noticed it happen it was with flyers.  In addition to the 2 I mentioned above I've seen it with Cabalists (who fly) as well.  I don't recall seeing a non-flyer blast off to the roof.