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Magplars: what do you use for a spammable attack?

Chronicburn
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I like solar flare for the range, the 20% bonus on next attack, and he fact it hits like a truck ... but the downside is the 1.1 second cast time (kinda kills the whole weaving thing?)
Puncturing sweep is awesome because it's instant and self-heals, but has no range and damage sucks...

Is there one I'm missing? I've been looking at all the attacks for destro/resto magplar and there's a couple good dots, but which spammable should I be using?

Thanks!
  • PurpleDrank
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    I always used Puncturing Sweeps as my spammable, swapping over to Force Pulse if I wanted to stay ranged. I haven't DPSed for a while though so there may be something better now.
  • Chronicburn
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    What do you think of solar flare? the damage is really addictive ...
  • ArchMikem
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    Reflective Light's pretty good.
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  • PurpleDrank
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    What do you think of solar flare? the damage is really addictive ...

    Never really used it honestly, never had the room on either of my bars, so I couldn't give an honest opinion on it.
  • akredon_ESO
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    Solar flare + Crushing Shock + light attack = Watch them numbers hit baby
  • Chronicburn
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    I had been using reflective light before I tried solar flare, I just thought going vampires for that sweet extra long dot would be better and then using a different attack to spam would be good ... but yeah, reflective light never sucked :0)
  • Chronicburn
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    Solar flare + Crushing Shock + light attack = Watch them numbers hit baby

    I hadn't thought of that ... I'd have to move a dot to my back bar to make it work ... but it sounds like it's worth a shot. Thanks man!
  • akredon_ESO
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    No prob !
  • FrancisCrawford
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    The last time I checked, Reflective Light seemed better than Force Pulse.

    However, this was several patches ago ...
  • Chronicburn
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    I was going to use the other morph (vampires) as a dot anyway ... I suppose I could use it in the line-up as a spammable as well ... so many choices, so few slots!
  • Nemesis7884
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    I like solar flare for the range, the 20% bonus on next attack, and he fact it hits like a truck ... but the downside is the 1.1 second cast time (kinda kills the whole weaving thing?)
    Puncturing sweep is awesome because it's instant and self-heals, but has no range and damage sucks...

    Is there one I'm missing? I've been looking at all the attacks for destro/resto magplar and there's a couple good dots, but which spammable should I be using?

    Thanks!

    the other morph for the flare will change to a pulse dot with clock work city...could be interesting

    i usually use vampires bain + elemental blockade + the spear shard thing + ritual of retribution + lightning heavy attacks

    im looking forward to the morph change of the flare and if i can incorporate it...another dot is great...just wondering about the cast time but maybe you can run into melee range while casting it and follow it up with sweeps

    I found that i like vampires bain better due to longer dot time on heavy enemies/bosses... i rather use lightning heavy attacks than reflective light...this is also why im usually not using sweeps but rather lightning heavy attacks since they regenerate magicka so i never run out
  • akl77
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    As a magplar healer, my damage spam is shards and beam.
    As magplar dps, don’t spam, rotations is how to get dps number up, otherwise it suck horribly.
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  • Lightspeedflashb14_ESO
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    You say damage from sweeps sucks, it will out dps solar flare and keep you alive, not sure how you came to the opposite conclusion.
  • tinythinker
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    I used to love Magplar, haven't used it in a while. I never got much out of Solar Flare, but I haven't used that skill since 2014. I started a thread about it on the PTS forum when it showed up in the patch notes for Clockwork City. People seemed undecided whether it would be worth slotting and whether the change to it make a difference. Very interested in seeing the numbers when players start posting them.
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  • geonsocal
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    come on man, is this even a question...there is only one true templar spammable...

    jesus beam all day long baby...
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  • D0PAMINE
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    Dark Flare when im feeling vicious, Pulsar for groups, Jesus beam when im bored.
  • UppGRAYxDD
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    Sweeps forever! Dark flare is fun to use and deadly, but any experience enemy will bash or interrupt you everytime. If your gonna use a staff and want to be a ranged dps, go with force pulse or reflective light mixed with javalins and dark flares. If you are just a trashy zergling then it doesn't matter what you use...
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  • mwo1480
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    selfheal+heavy lighting staff +hiding behind rock
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  • WillhelmBlack
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    Is this a trick question?
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  • Joy_Division
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    In general you shouldn't "spam" attacks. It's typically best to put some Damage Over Time [DoT] abilities and then do a couple of instant-cast skills ("spammables") and then back to DoTs when the ones you originally used.

    Puncturing Sweep is the strongest instant-cast a magplar has.
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