Understanding Radiant Destruction

Elric_Ashborn · June 2018

Hello, I recently leveled up my Argonian Templar enough to unlock this move (Radiant Destruction) although it is level 1 I find the damage extremely lackluster. My question is how does it calculate the 330%? The wording in the tooltip says (Up to 300%) Is it random? Does it scale?

Personally, I find Sweeps does more DPS then said skill. All my points are in Magic. If someone could provide a little more information of how this ability works that be great! Thank you.

Drdeath20 · June 2018

Its suppose to be an execute. When enemies health fall below 50% it gradually deals more damage but the real strength of the skill appears when your enemy is at 10% health.

This use to be a decent ability but because of pvp it got nerfed soo much that its a dps loss when used.

In pvp it was undogdeable (because it was a channel), had extreme range (42 meters), scaled at 50% and because it was a channel it could preload a execute. People stood in the back row of zergs and cheesed every one with the jesus beam.

Instead of nerfing the range ZoS nerfed its damage by 20% and now its not worth slotting in any scenario.

Elric_Ashborn · June 2018

I'm seeing that... Took e forever to build this character. Sadly, I'm near the finish line and my main DPS move just fell through.

DeadlyRecluse · June 2018

In PvP, it's barely worth slotting anymore, unless you are running a very high damage build using it to combo with delayed burst, or using it as a single-tick skill to close out fights (casting at under 10% health, especially against medium armor builds that tend to dodge 2-3 times to let their HoTS work when in execute).

In PvE, it's a pretty standard execute. The ideal % to cast it is floating around somewhere, it's lower than 50% but high enough that you get some decent beaming in against bosses.

THEDKEXPERIENCE · June 2018

I’m one of the very few people who still use it. It’s only effective if you push every possible thing into making that move effective. My tooltip is about 15.7K, and I know some people that can get it into the 18k area. I only use it situationally now though.

It’s good to finish off a X v 1 fight where 5 of your teammates are chasing an “unkillable” tank around a tree or to essentially play psychological warfare from on top of a keep (people are still scared AF of it from PTSD) but that’s really it.

I’ve had a hard time removing it just cause I’ve used it for years (I’m very guilty of spamming it into crowds helping to cause the nerf) but unless someone is 20% or lower I may as well just keep shooting triple fireballs and lightning staff attacks.

Elric_Ashborn · June 2018

I've pushed it up as well, set it up that way, still sits under Dark Flare. Going to have to reroll tonight. I was really counting on this skill.