Wizard damage shield ticks down

Rarok

Dalayan Elder
The line is the Hayden's Flickering Flame. It ticks down with a wizard in the group. Duration was changed to 10 mins.
 
Of note: Flickering Flame also fills a weird niche:
It stacks with most other damage shields.

It, however, does not stack with things like fire elemental illusion.
Basically, it means its marginally useful (5 pt ds) since it never got an upgraded spell line, with fire elemental illusion going to 17 at 65, basically being a ghetto fire elemental illusion that isnt an illusion.

If working on balance still, could consider a higher level version or two of this, to make its weird niche useful.
(and it was already a weird, unexplored niche in normal everquest, where, like a lot of spell lines, simply got abandoned / ignored)
 
@Dev-Cole Hayden's Embers also needs to be adjusted, it still ticks down. The level 4 one Hayden's Radiation too.

On a side topic for this line, what is strange is both Hayden's Embers and Hayden's Flickering Flame stack with each other. Flames does 5 damage with 10 fire resist, Embers does 3 damage with 10 fire resist, and together they do 8 damage with 20 fire resist? Anyways, it is a cool little line wizards have. It would be neat if there was a higher version of the spell. Since together they give 8 damage and 20 fire resist when stacked currently, maybe fix the stacking issue and give us an upgrade that just does 8 damage with 20 fire resist? :D
 
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