it's useful to use other abilities like Runemend or Cephaliarch's Flail too for building up Crux, makes your Beam of Nonsense deal more damage

Guessing this is a PVP thread by the tone of it. If you are dying to the beam, its not the beam.

While we're at it, lets compare an execute skill with Crystal Weapon. After all, Crystal Weapon is the gold standard when it comes to PVP skills. Lets ignore the 400 point cost difference between the two because... why not. Or that flail's damage is not that effective unless the target is under 30%. Clearly Executioner is way out of balance too. And don't get me started on Radiant Oppression.

@moderatelyfatman Well, in that case, we pretty much agree. I played a stam sorc in PVE for a while until the Arcanist came along. I liked Crystal Weapon and how it worked because it was pretty easy, but I do agree, a better class spammable is needed. But it does have other things the Arcanist does not, like Hurricane, which makes up for a lot of the stam sorc's missing spammable damage.

The two are nowhere near in the same class as each other in PVE (or PVP for that matter). But if you are looking to buff another class' damage to keep up with Arcanist, I am all in.

As for PVP, there has been an overload of people claiming the Arc is overpowered. This felt like another one of those. Its not overpowered, its also not weak. I just think there are too many inexperience PVPers because of this event that are dying from Arcs' beams and think that is the way to PVP, when they should be more concerned with the Arc's shields

what @El_Borracho said

Beam absolutely destroys people in pvp in 2 spots

1 against someone who has no clue what they doing both build and game sense wise, they get instant melted by how quick it ticks

2 at choke points, mainly in battlegrounds and especially when playing chaos ball, where people are forced to try to run through a straight path into a beam

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