Blue Mage: Best thread ever

[Prothescar]

the damage is roughly equivilent to quadratic continuum making amorphic spikes our best sc closer. wind breath is our most effective/efficient magic attack, and blood rake is appearing to be an incredible emergency heal. pretty good haul atm, I expect qqing from the drk community about bloodrake.

[Brave]

Spikes is doubling my CdC damage under CA + Efflux in Dynamis - Valk vs. DC Manticores, so pretty awesome.

Edit: I should state that it's doing ~3k with CA+Efflux, 1.6k without

[dasva]

Wait doubling... you saying your CdC is only doing 1.5k...

[Prothescar]

1.5k isn't really that hard to believe outside of abyssea. <_<

[dasva]

Occasionally sure but normal it's kinda low for an ep. I guess maybe no att food

[Prothescar]

No attack food most likely yes, however on a DC manticore 1.5k doesn't sound like anything less than average.

[vagus]

GoH better then CW now for AOE burning?

[Prothescar]

no

might be after secondary modifiers are discovered as the fTP is high enough to be a contender, however it's not very likely.

Edit: seems GoH is modified by STR.

[Foldypaws]

Occasionally sure but normal it's kinda low for an ep. I guess maybe no att food

Doesn't really sound *that* low to me, even for EP. 5.25 fTP, 60% dex when DW. Assuming 1.5 pDIF on non-crit, 2.5 on crit, and a 45% crit rate @ 100 tp with 5% crit damage bonus, ~160 dex and level 90 almace gives expected damage of ~ 1491

[Prothescar]

Gates of Hades is 5fTP, 1.0dINT, 20% STR/DEX

Decent candidate vs. Charged Whisker.

Not going to test for modifiers on physical spells until they hit live. It's too much of a pain in the ass to redo the test just to make sure once they're in their "final" state. Magic and Breaths are easy enough. Will try to tets the additional effects however.

[Foldypaws]

Gates of Hades is 5fTP, 1.0dINT, 20% STR/DEX

Decent candidate vs. Charged Whisker.

Not going to test for modifiers on physical spells until they hit live. It's too much of a pain in the ass to redo the test just to make sure once they're in their "final" state.

How's the burn on it?

[Prothescar]

Not sure, will test that after I see if it has a damage multiplier during azure lore.

[Sekundes]

Not going to test for modifiers on physical spells until they hit live. It's too much of a pain in the ass to redo the test just to make sure once they're in their "final" state. Magic and Breaths are easy enough. Will try to tets the additional effects however.

Not to mention getting disappointed if they nerf them.

[Kyte]

How's the burn on it?

It's 1:30 duration, DoT is at least observable- at least 20/tic I think? Can't comment on the -INT.

[Foldypaws]

It's 1:30 duration, DoT is at least observable- at least 20/tic I think? Can't comment on the -INT.

If it's at least -20 a tic, the -int should be at least -43. (Stat down is always 3+2*Damage/tic, afaik.)

Should be easy to test with other nukes.

[Prothescar]

The burn is about 20-25 HP/tic. I weakened myself twice and did a 0 Damage gates of hades to a rabbit, the Burn killed it in 2 tics, the first tic taking roughly 65~70% of its HP.

[doctorugh]

GoH better then CW now for AOE burning?

I'd be willing to say if positioned right Thunderbreath would be the most potent. Currently I can get 8k HP in abyssea.

[Prothescar]

Rabbits have 33 HP.

After casting Self-destruct twice to weaken myself, I let my regen tic my HP up to 16 then casted Heat Breath for a controlled 8 damage. 1 tic of the burn took the rabbit to 7~11%. Next I did it with a 10 damage Heat Breath, this left the rabbit with 1% or less HP. 12 damage heat breath -> GoH killed the rabbit. 21/tic Burn.

[dasva]

I'd be willing to say if positioned right Thunderbreath would be the most potent. Currently I can get 8k HP in abyssea.

Well yeah but race plays a huge role in that. I doubt I could get 6k. And that would involve making sets I don't have. It probably will but not by much. GoH if those stats above are right looks decently weaker than CW. Not like we need a better AOE spell in abyssea. I mean shit if I totally buff/debuff I can still get them below 20% on a resist

[Kyte]

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