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with a couple of HOTs from a healer, you are fine to play.

I could see a Squig Herder/Shadow Warrior change coming up. They now build up Butterfingers/Sweaty Palms which increases their crit chance by up to 50%, but also gives up to 50% chance of shooting themselves in the hand, dealing x damage over z seconds.

I saw a Bright Wizard take a Chosen from 50% health to 0% before I could get off my Morale heal.

Can has burst nao?

I find this to be a very balancing aspect of the game. Right now, at max Combustion, I get 50% Crit, 100% increased Damage, and 50% Explosion chance. I think I have maybe 4 spells that don't have a chance for Explosion...all of which are buffs. At 23, that's working out to be 460~ish damage an explosion. Couple that with my 3500 hps, it balances out well as I can really get some good output going (AE nuke crits near 1k when max Combustion), but I REALLY have a good chance of killing myself (96 personal Bright Wizard kills....gah!).

If it worked out to be only 50% Crit and 100% increased damage, there would be screams of overpower. Throw a couple of healers on me and I would start working you into a DoT, AE, Fire Cage rotation only having to worry about incoming damage and not blowing myself up. If I had a tank throw Guard on me as well...mmmm....MASS BBQ!! You'd have to send quite a few people at any Bright Wizard/Sorceress in a scenario and hope to hell you could burn them down before the got worked up.

I really like the gameplay aspect of it and man...the damage output is awesome. Killing yourself is....not. It happens and I just roll with it. I figure since I kill take 3-4 mobs of equal or higher level with marginal downtime (rez/heal/run or time between to heal) that's fine with me.

I just wish that the Combustion number would be a bit more obvious as in the heat of battle, I tend to forget to watch it and time Meltdowns (Combustion dumps) to save myself. Maybe flashing OMG DUMP COMBUSTION MORON!!! across the screen would help, but I doubt it. Once those crits start rolling...I'll nuke til I drop.



Vostagg had been slain by Vostagg's spelling in The Bad Lands!

Edited, Oct 14th 2008 11:06am by Jornam

you realise in exchange for having the backlash your getting something like a +50% crit chance, and something like +100% crit damage, so thats why those other classes you mention dont have that damage.

dont want to take the damage? discharge your combustion/dark magic and have reduced damage capabilities.

thats the point though, its dangerous, being able to kill yourself means its a risk vs reward situation.

ive killed myself plenty of times, it happens, my own fault for not paying attention

I guess it's just something I have to get accustomed to. Maybe make sure to "dump my load" when the sphere starts filling up rather than waiting until it starts taking me out.


lol

That would be something to see if they added it to the game. One dude blowing up his entire army.

This.

i like using my dhar wind as a finisher. if ive got max dhar, then it hits for a pretty decent amount. with a doombolt/gloomburst combo at 100 dhar followed by a dhar wind, i can drop people fairly quickly if at least one thing crits.

but i only attempt that kind of thing if ive got a healer watching my ass. otherwise im usually dumping my dhar as soon as my life drops under 75% or so. im more useful alive, even if im at reduced damage output.

altho, i will say, there is something decidedly fun about going in with full dhar and two healers and just AoEing to hell and back. one gates of ekrund battle ended with me having something like 25 death blows out of 30-some kills, largely due to an overuse of AoE (and no small amount of dying on my part).