another way around this?

The post above me is having the same problem and the answer seems to be theres nothing you can do about it. So i need to change my skills. What spell could i base off of besides stampede to create a ring of damage around my hero. And also my other hero is a shapeshifter with two transforming skills based off of Storm, Earth, and Fire. I'll need to change one of them. Any ideas on either or both? Thx emote_sweat

Other AoE damage effects based around the hero could be Starfall or a negative Tranquility (if you want it to be channeling like Stampede) or Immolation (if you want it to be non-channeling and mana-requiring) or the Cryptlord's Carrion thang (if you want both non-channeling and non-requiring-of-constant-mana).

The shapeshifting thing has its own thread now, so I'll let that be.