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Dark Flare and Fast Flare
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Here's a little suggestion of mine to make the other morph of Solar Flare (Solar Barrage) more interesting:
Change the name to Fast Flare and make this a 0.5 second cast version of Dark Flare, but without the Empower and Major Defile buffs/debuffs.
Thoughts?
Change the name to Fast Flare and make this a 0.5 second cast version of Dark Flare, but without the Empower and Major Defile buffs/debuffs.
Thoughts?
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DisgracefulMind✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭Solar Barrage is amazing if used correctly, why change it? lolUnfortunate magicka warden main.
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BugCollector✭✭✭✭DisgracefulMind wrote: »Solar Barrage is amazing if used correctly, why change it? lol
Well, then just change Dark Flare a little bit. Either give it a 0.5 sec cast time or give it a chance to instant cast like Crystal Fragments.May knowledge guide you to enlightenment -
Valrien✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭BugCollector wrote: »DisgracefulMind wrote: »Solar Barrage is amazing if used correctly, why change it? lol
Well, then just change Dark Flare a little bit. Either give it a 0.5 sec cast time or give it a chance to instant cast like Crystal Fragments.
You mean a 35% chance on the use of any other ability to get a-semi instant cast that more or less lasts 1.1 seconds, right?Valrien Dravic -- Level 50 Dunmeri Sorcerer (EP)
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DisgracefulMind✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭BugCollector wrote: »DisgracefulMind wrote: »Solar Barrage is amazing if used correctly, why change it? lol
Well, then just change Dark Flare a little bit. Either give it a 0.5 sec cast time or give it a chance to instant cast like Crystal Fragments.
I guess I can agree with the chance for a proc; however, a chance to proc WITHOUT bonus damage like Crystal Fragments has. Templars dish out insane damage as is.Edited by DisgracefulMind on September 19, 2015 7:18AMUnfortunate magicka warden main.
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BugCollector✭✭✭✭DisgracefulMind wrote: »BugCollector wrote: »DisgracefulMind wrote: »Solar Barrage is amazing if used correctly, why change it? lol
Well, then just change Dark Flare a little bit. Either give it a 0.5 sec cast time or give it a chance to instant cast like Crystal Fragments.
I guess I can agree with the chance for a proc; however, a chance to proc WITHOUT bonus damage like Crystal Fragments has. Templars dish out insane damage as is.
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BugCollector✭✭✭✭BugCollector wrote: »DisgracefulMind wrote: »Solar Barrage is amazing if used correctly, why change it? lol
Well, then just change Dark Flare a little bit. Either give it a 0.5 sec cast time or give it a chance to instant cast like Crystal Fragments.
You mean a 35% chance on the use of any other ability to get a-semi instant cast that more or less lasts 1.1 seconds, right?
Not really following you. I meant the same like Crystal Fragments (sorc skill).May knowledge guide you to enlightenment -
Moonshadow66✭✭✭✭✭
✭BugCollector wrote: »Here's a little suggestion of mine to make the other morph of Solar Flare (Solar Barrage) more interesting:
Change the name to Fast Flare and make this a 0.5 second cast version of Dark Flare, but without the Empower and Major Defile buffs/debuffs.
Thoughts?
I couldn't agree more. Either change Solar Barrage (which is completely useless and does nothing than looking nice, imo), or make the cast time of Dark Flare shorter.
Or, how about Crystal Fragments handle it? Have a chance to instant-cast it.. maybe this option to replace Solar Barrage?
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Valrien✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭BugCollector wrote: »BugCollector wrote: »DisgracefulMind wrote: »Solar Barrage is amazing if used correctly, why change it? lol
Well, then just change Dark Flare a little bit. Either give it a 0.5 sec cast time or give it a chance to instant cast like Crystal Fragments.
You mean a 35% chance on the use of any other ability to get a-semi instant cast that more or less lasts 1.1 seconds, right?
Not really following you. I meant the same like Crystal Fragments (sorc skill).
I know. Basically Crystal Fragments is only a chance to be instant (on the use of another ability). The "instant" cast has a messed up GCD + animation that locked you out of other skills for a short time after you cast, effectively making the cast time for the instant around 1.1 seconds.
EDIT: Unless it got fixed?Edited by Valrien on September 19, 2015 7:22AMValrien Dravic -- Level 50 Dunmeri Sorcerer (EP)
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Asmael✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭Asking to reduce the CD from 1.1 to 0.5 second.
That's a 120% damage increase.
Drop empower on the fast cast, that's still slightly more than a 100% increase in damage.
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BugCollector✭✭✭✭Asking to reduce the CD from 1.1 to 0.5 second.
That's a 120% damage increase.
Drop empower on the fast cast, that's still slightly more than a 100% increase in damage.
I don't know what you smoke before doing your math, but please share...
Well, atleast something needs to be done with it. How would you agree with the chance to instant cast?May knowledge guide you to enlightenment -
Ahzek✭✭✭✭✭
✭Changing the cast time actually would not be as big of a DPS increase as it seems, since there is a global cooldown to every ability use that is higher than the 0,5 seconds cast time anyways. Similary instant cast abilities can't be dished out inifetly every second, because they take up the same global CD.
The biggest impact of this change would be in PvP, as is seen by the Uppercut/crystal frag cast time buffs, where the time to properly react to them has been reduced drastically. For example wrecking blow is very "interesting" to block or dodge sometimes, since the cast time actually finishes before the animation plays out fully. Crystal frags suffers from a different "issue", in which the time to actually bash the cast is now way shorter than the actual casting animation and it is no lomger possible to bash right before it fires.Edited by Ahzek on September 19, 2015 8:48AMJo'Khaljor the bestest stam sorc (out of all 3) EU.
