Helix's and stormsFollow

In xp pts is there ever a good time to use helix's?
are they only good for nm's and endgame?

as for storms..
i know after i merit stormsturge that the storms gives boost, but before stormsturge is there ever a time in a pt to use these?

any help would be sweet
thx guys

not to be the nit-picky arse, but... if someone is casting a Helix spell, that someone can also cast Erase. If not, then urdoingitwrong.

Chances are, storms won't have any significant effect on party members, unless they are using some form of elemental attack (WS, QD, nukes). There's a little bonus to enfeebling accuracy, but not worth the effort to cast the Storm in the first place.

Helices might have a usefulness based on the mob. Truthfully, they are more useful when solo'ing, simply because by the time you learn helix spells, you should be killing at a faster rate of speed, thus negating the usefulness of the Helix

Because of the nature of the helix formula, the INT you should stack for them will basically cap your macc on exp mobs without dark arts. Fully utilized helices are very efficient damage even with an extra 10% MP cost. That being said, colibris aren't exactly magic friendly. They're highly resistant. I personally don't consider a helix worthwhile on colibris or imps.

2ndly, wasn't proof posted sometime ago that there is indeed an acc increase when under weather and day effect of the correlating element?

3rdly: storm spells weren't worthless pre-SCH merits, and they're still not even before stormsurge now. It's just a matter of deciding when they're most useful. If you're a healer with the light obi, failing to aurorastorm yourself is nigh retarded.

Post stormsurge, they're absolutely worthwhile. 7 STR is great for melees. 7 INT is wonderful for nukers. Be intelligent with their use and you'll love them.

At 75, you will definitely not have capped accuracy against Imps or Colibri in this situation. Before 75, there simply isn't enough INT available to cap your accuracy via INT alone.



If you are referring to Helices activating weather effects 100% without the use of Obis, then you're half right. I've never seen concrete proof that day/weather effects affect accuracy. If you have more substantial proof, please feel free to share.



+10% Cure Potency from Aurorastorm comes to about +0.4HP per MP spent on Cure spells. If you have a Korin Obi to proc this 100%, then you only have to spend about 100 MP in 3 minutes on Cure spells to make Aurorastorm worthwhile; if you don't, you'd have to spend 300MP in 3 minutes to get your MP's worth out of Aurorastorm; not worth it. Besides, at 75 I rarely even cast 100MP worth of Cure spells; Stoneskin and Regen2 are much more MP efficient.