Zos,
@ZOS_GinaBruno,
I have been a proponent of Crystal Blast (aoe) for a long time. I have been kicked out of multiple groups because i use it and it is very visible. On my current build the tool tip hovers around 14,500 damage and iirc crits for 24,000 ish and it stuns from range. The down side is the 1.1 second cast time, so people don't use it. I have noticed that when i use it, even without using any other skills at all it is a guarrenteed 14,500 DPS minimum, up to 23k with crit gear. It is at the point for me that using executes can actually lower my damage, since it hits so hard. the animation is pretty nice as I have noticed that it seems to partially animation cancel itself and seems to go into hypermode when it is spam cast.
I have always kind of compared it to Bow's Snipe and 2hander Crit Rush for useability. Yesterday I tried a test by using it from stealth and the casting of it pulls me out of stealth, so there was no auto crit or damage bonus. I was thinking that it would be really nice if i could use it from stealth with a guaranteed crit. That way it would be more inline with Bow's Snipe other hard hitting crit from stealth attacks.
The aoe portion of Crystal Blast is just to die for. I really like it. I was thinking that if it crit from stealth that i could then lay down the ground dot's like liquid lightning and the destro wall of elements(i use unstable for the 3 times explosion at the the end).
Now my usual simplified rotation consists of these skills(not necessarily in order). Power Surge, my pet pbaoe, Liquid Lightening, Unstable wall of lightening, Daedric Curse, and then Crystal Blast until i need to reapply the other skills.
This and other things i would like you to consider.
1. Useable from Stealth with auto crit or another bonus
2. Change it to Lightening Damage so it works with Elemental Drain for power siphon, and works with Detonation sorc passive
3. Add a reverb effect so if only one mob is hit then a portion of the aoe that would have been done feeds back to the main mob that was hit directly.
4. Add a damage bonus to main mob so that if 5 additional mobs are hit then bonus damage is done to the main target.
5. anyting else you can think of to make the skill even better.
Thank you!