First, this isn’t really a call to change anything. I’m merely opening up a discussion here.
Currently the 5 mana wizard nukes are having most of the rules set against them. Ultimate blast doesn’t work with them and also any item that offers +elemental damage (fire, cold or magic) will not increase the damage on the 5 mana nukes. It has come to my attention that this is not a coincidental effect, but a deliberate implement.
I have already had a lengthy talk with Tartau on the subject and he strongly believes that the 5 mana nukes should not scale along with your character, as this would make them overpowered.
I would like to hear other people’s opinion on the subject and especially I would love the see the designers reasoning behind it. So therefor I started this tread.
I am, myself, not convinced that these spells are especially overpowered and as such deserve special treatment. At their current form they are situational at best. They offer a wizard an ability to deal some, if tiny, damage, when he/she is oom. You can use it by “twisting” it in between your real nukes and by so doing; get one or more ticks out of your arcane echo effect. Needless to say, you are mostly better off sitting down and waiting for your meditation to kick in.
Even if you got item bonuses and you where able to ultimate blast on them, they would remain strictly situational. Especially at higher tier. My current dps using Frost Howl, buffed with cunning and clicky ring, is only just about 110. Even with +200 damage from items, my dps would still be less than 140.
So why bother making a special nerf/design to these wizard spells? With the same argument you could ask; why bother bringing up a discussion on it? To the later I can answer “because every little bit helps”. To the first I have no answer and so I put that one up to you guys =)
Please try to keep flaming to a bare minimum.
Currently the 5 mana wizard nukes are having most of the rules set against them. Ultimate blast doesn’t work with them and also any item that offers +elemental damage (fire, cold or magic) will not increase the damage on the 5 mana nukes. It has come to my attention that this is not a coincidental effect, but a deliberate implement.
I have already had a lengthy talk with Tartau on the subject and he strongly believes that the 5 mana nukes should not scale along with your character, as this would make them overpowered.
I would like to hear other people’s opinion on the subject and especially I would love the see the designers reasoning behind it. So therefor I started this tread.
I am, myself, not convinced that these spells are especially overpowered and as such deserve special treatment. At their current form they are situational at best. They offer a wizard an ability to deal some, if tiny, damage, when he/she is oom. You can use it by “twisting” it in between your real nukes and by so doing; get one or more ticks out of your arcane echo effect. Needless to say, you are mostly better off sitting down and waiting for your meditation to kick in.
Even if you got item bonuses and you where able to ultimate blast on them, they would remain strictly situational. Especially at higher tier. My current dps using Frost Howl, buffed with cunning and clicky ring, is only just about 110. Even with +200 damage from items, my dps would still be less than 140.
So why bother making a special nerf/design to these wizard spells? With the same argument you could ask; why bother bringing up a discussion on it? To the later I can answer “because every little bit helps”. To the first I have no answer and so I put that one up to you guys =)
Please try to keep flaming to a bare minimum.
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