Arcane Acuity

[Tecnodoc]

How about... Add a +70% chance to crit aswell. This would make it a nice "burn order" type buff. Ofc it needs to only work on one nuke. Now If you get a normal crit, the spell is hardly worth useing, as 2 moon comets insted would be less mana and also have a chance to crit on there own. But if you add into it that the AA makes your spell "a sure hit" and the math becomes iffy. I would say that it would be worth useing sometimes, most times not.

But it would still be really cool to be able to land a "sure crit" every 5 min... even if it takes up anothere gem and costs 600mana.

 

[Tecnodoc]

Seems to me that this spell is still forgotten? Some months ago someone was talking about a fix. dont really know what happend? But since I was already doing a post on the runic spell for wizards. I thourght I might aswell add this here.

The base idear of the spell my need looking into, a "sure hit" on a spell is not really that usefull.

Although looking at content tier8.5 and up, it looks like there is a consensus that - "If a Wizard can just land his nukes that would make them really overpowerd!" And so every mob above ToT djar wing will resist around 30% of Moon Comets even with glyph of Shojar I, 20% divination overcap and max charisma. Bosses will resist more like 50% forcing me to abandom my beloved Moon Comet and use Lure of the Void insted. /qq

So anyway. Make this a self buff that gives me a bigger chance of landign my spells all the time. That is really needed and it would be a great use for this broken spell. Remember wizards have no real pets so thy dident get anything out of the resent upgrades there - they also have nearly no AAs that are unique and any good.

 

[Animand]

Seems to me that this spell is still forgotten? Some months ago someone was talking about a fix. dont really know what happend? But since I was already doing a post on the runic spell for wizards. I thourght I might aswell add this here.

I don't think this is still broken.

The base idear of the spell my need looking into, a "sure hit" on a spell is not really that usefull.

Although looking at content tier8.5 and up, it looks like there is a consensus that - "If a Wizard can just land his nukes that would make them really overpowerd!" And so every mob above ToT djar wing will resist around 30% of Moon Comets even with glyph of Shojar I, 20% divination overcap and max charisma. Bosses will resist more like 50% forcing me to abandom my beloved Moon Comet and use Lure of the Void insted. /qq

Having a sure hit on your next spell effectively reduces the number of resists you're going to have. Heck, if you feel like it, cast Lure of the Void, get Arcane Acuity, then have a surefire cast of Moon Comet. BAM, you're getting great use of Arcane Acuity already, and you're succesfully lowering your resist rate. Am I missing something here?

So anyway. Make this a self buff that gives me a bigger chance of landign my spells all the time. That is really needed and it would be a great use for this broken spell. Remember wizards have no real pets so thy dident get anything out of the resent upgrades there - they also have nearly no AAs that are unique and any good.

This entire paragraph is devoid of any useful content.

Recap: your argument seems self-contradictory and I don't know what you're trying to explain. Please make it clear to me, I think I'm missing something.

 

[Nwaij]

Having a sure hit on your next spell effectively reduces the number of resists you're going to have. Heck, if you feel like it, cast Lure of the Void, get Arcane Acuity, then have a surefire cast of Moon Comet. BAM, you're getting great use of Arcane Acuity already, and you're succesfully lowering your resist rate. Am I missing something here?

You are. The thing you are missing is the fact that Arcane Acuity costs 600 mana and tends to fade before you can actually finish casing a moon comet. Also, I personally don't expect resist rates on any spell that terrible, unless of course a mob is just flat out immune to that spell type.

Oh, and the 5 min recast makes this spell even less usefull, for it means you can use it once on your average boss fight, and it has 0 use in xp group situations.

 

[Animand]

Thanks. That information needed to be posted.

 

[Tecnodoc]

Recap: your argument seems self-contradictory and I don't know what you're trying to explain. Please make it clear to me, I think I'm missing something.

Ya sorry, my english can be lagging. General crying about the fact that wiz AAs are lackluster. Then general crying about not getting an up with the mages and necros. Add in a wish to get something out of this spell.

Sugestion: plus a negativ adjustment to all spell resist (kind of like glyphs).

 

[Dpkronos]

Ok, chill. Will remove as not to jack. I still think it would be good to have a single Ikisith spell thread that is recent.

 

[Thade]

Every single one of the necro spells is amazing. Necro's didn't need dps help, because they already crap it out like crazy. Also, ikisith spells were intended to not be direct upgrades for the most part. Lastly, channel essence is overpowered as shit. Also, don't jack threads, make your own.

 

[Goldfolk]

Just seen this thread and would broadly support Nwaij on this.

As it stands Arcane Acuity uses too much mana to have any practical value that I can think of.

Increasing the duration so that it lasted long enough to cast 2 or 3 nukes would change equation totally or reducing mana cost ditto.

As it stands you are mathematically more likely to benefit from casting 2 moon comets unless I've missed something.

Also remember not every wizard has 9.6K mana

 

[draynor9]

I really think this spell is broken.. it does'nt seem to be doing what Woldo claims it does now. maybe it used to work, but i dont think so now. I was in PoF the other day and decided to play with it on a few of the deflecting/counterspelling mobs.. i was still deflected or counterpelled each time. I tried in conjunction with various spells.. lures, rapid rendering, tarhls.. etc.. didn't seem to make a difference... did it get broke in a patch and not noticed since no one really uses it anyway? if it is broken, maybe now is the time to upgrade it to useful at the same time as fixing.. if it is NOT broke, then it's just a manasink i think.