Solar Barrage

cameo · June 2014

Has anyone tried Solar Barrage with a destro build on Templar? I'm wondering if it would work well with Impulse. Instead of straight impulse spam to weave it in between for a boosted impulse. For example, run in with Volcanic Rune, Solar Barrage, Impulse, Solar Barrage, Impulse.

I noticed the tooltip dmg and cost of the spell is pretty much identical to Impulse so it isn't really a loss of dps it seems. But you lose a high dmg ranged attack for solo fights by not getting Dark Flare instead.

Any thoughts?

Thechemicals · June 2014

Having solar means you dont need impulse. However, i have seen the build on youtube if you want to research it. Solar was believed to inscrease spell power...and may have done that originally but due to a ninja nerf of some kind....it now reads add damage to spell or weapon attack which might actually be better in some cases.

catpower · June 2014

I'll give it a shot and see how it works. I stopped using solar barrage a long time ago, just wasn't impressed with it at all, but maybe it would work well with impulse (I didn't have impulse back then).

I was opening with barrage, then using reflective light, then biting jabs as finisher, worked great, but taking barrage out and just using reflective light and jabs seemed just as good so I dropped solar barrage...

cameo · June 2014

Thechemicals wrote: »

Having solar means you dont need impulse. However, i have seen the build on youtube if you want to research it. Solar was believed to inscrease spell power...and may have done that originally but due to a ninja nerf of some kind....it now reads add damage to spell or weapon attack which might actually be better in some cases.

I thought about that as well, just using Barrage, but since the tooltip said the dmg increase didn't affect Barrage itself, it seemed like a waste to just spam Barrage and instead alternate Impulse to get the boost.

Akinos · June 2014

Solar Barrage is decent for aoe dps and better for generating your ult fast.

josvierselrwb17_ESO · October 2014

Morph for Solar Flare has just become available for my character.
Solar Flare IV does 82 magic damage.
Description says, Morph, Dark Flare I does 82 magic damage.
Morph, Solar Barrage I does 35 magic damage.

It is a huge reduction in damage. Is that right?

Tankqull · October 2014

josvierselrwb17_ESO wrote: »

Morph for Solar Flare has just become available for my character.
Solar Flare IV does 82 magic damage.
Description says, Morph, Dark Flare I does 82 magic damage.
Morph, Solar Barrage I does 35 magic damage.

It is a huge reduction in damage. Is that right?

darkflare = range singletarget cast healdebuff
barrage= instant pbae

Soris · October 2014

I personally prefer reflective light or blazing spear over solar barrage. They have better damage/dot/snare/ulti generation, and both can be used from range and melee very effectively.
Solar barrage sometimes halts your character while running and casting in same time. It's too annoying for me and shame still no fix for it.

driosketch · October 2014

Tankqull wrote: »

josvierselrwb17_ESO wrote: »

Morph for Solar Flare has just become available for my character.
Solar Flare IV does 82 magic damage.
Description says, Morph, Dark Flare I does 82 magic damage.
Morph, Solar Barrage I does 35 magic damage.

It is a huge reduction in damage. Is that right?

darkflare = range singletarget cast healdebuff
barrage= instant pbae

Dark flare looks to have a splash effect on nearby NPCs to your target. You can see the effect travel, but I don't know if it's just damage or the debuff as well.

In any case, the instant cast time is the reason for the lower damage. But I don't know if the DPS and resource use would be higher or lower than impulse by itself without alternating barrage.

Tankqull · October 2014

driosketch wrote: »

Tankqull wrote: »

josvierselrwb17_ESO wrote: »

Morph for Solar Flare has just become available for my character.
Solar Flare IV does 82 magic damage.
Description says, Morph, Dark Flare I does 82 magic damage.
Morph, Solar Barrage I does 35 magic damage.

It is a huge reduction in damage. Is that right?

darkflare = range singletarget cast healdebuff
barrage= instant pbae

Dark flare looks to have a splash effect on nearby NPCs to your target. You can see the effect travel, but I don't know if it's just damage or the debuff as well.

In any case, the instant cast time is the reason for the lower damage. But I don't know if the DPS and resource use would be higher or lower than impulse by itself without alternating barrage.

the splash effect of darkflare is the dmg buff for the next attack - wich is consumed by anny attack regardless of you or your alliance.
- no dmg nor healduff is splashed.

josvierselrwb17_ESO · October 2014

Solar Flare looks like it does some splash damage.
I currently use Solar Flare as my first strike; for the moment, I think I'll leave it as it is, and pick another skill for my current level-up.

Pmarsico9 · October 2014

Solar Barrage is amazing for tank DPS and ult generation. Otherwise Ring of Elements is better, cheaper, and can proc Burning.

Pmarsico9 · October 2014

Also, the spell damage debuff can be eaten by other players.