Spell Icon Chaos Plague  

Description

1: Increase Disease Counter by 18
2: Decrease Hitpoints by 292 per tick. Max: 292 per tick

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Mana: 443 Skill: Conjuration
Casting Time: 3 Recast Time: 1.5
Fizzle Time: 1.5 Resist: Disease
Resist Adjust: -50 Range: 200
Location: Any Time of Day: Any
Deletable: Yes Dot Stacking: Yes
Reflectable: Yes Focusable: Yes
Dispellable: No Interruptable: Yes
Short Buff Box: No Target Type: Single
Spell Type: Detrimental Source: Live 02/06

Messages

Cast on you: Your muscles begin to decay.
Cast on other: Soandso 's muscles begin to decay.
Effect Fades: Your muscles stop decaying.

Game Description

Sickens your target with a dark plague, adding 18 disease counters and causing @2 disease damage every six seconds for 1.2 mins.

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Quick Facts

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Spell: Chaos Plague

ClassLevel
NEC66

Expansion:
Omens of War

Duration:
1.2 mins
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Great spell for long fight
# Apr 17 2008 at 10:19 PM Rating: Decent
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59 posts
I remember at first it looked underwhelming so I hadn't bothered getting it and was still using Dark Plague. I was soloing at 66, aggro kiting a red con for about 2-3 min per mob. I did about 20 AAs repeating it over and over.

Then, I happened to get this upgrade and goodness me what have I been missing. It's no joke, this spell is significant. If you are having to take down a mob fast (like in a group) then these disease line of spells are too long, but for soloing a red con (supposedly a long fight) this is god send. I started to use it WITH Dark Plague and they work wonders. I was using about 55% mana per kill, but after this spell about 40% and much less hassle because I could spend more time away from the mob medding while he caught up with me.

Try stacking all the efficient dots like so:

Chaos Plague
Dark Plague
Night Fire
Funeral Pyre
Pyrocruor (still a great candidate for overstacking)
Blood of Thule

Then possibly Horror and/or Splurt, if you fancy. Even better with DoT crit AA.

I tend to try avoid Curse line of spells while soloing as they are a mana hog, though great for group's quick fights. Generally though, Disease (Plague) line are the most efficient but slow acting, followed by Fire line which is quicker acting, then even faster Poison line which is a middle way, and fastest being the Curse line with inefficient mana usage.

Don't ignore this spell, despite the lack of apparent appeal at face value. In practice Disease line work wonders in a battle that lasts a while. When over-stacking DoTs (7 or 8 dots), I usually always open with Darkness, then 2 disease, then 3 (or 2) fire and 1 (or 2) poison and possibly 1 curse. Gives a new meaning to a death sentence on timer.

Edited, Apr 18th 2008 6:19am by PugPenguin
RE: Just anudder upgrade
# Nov 22 2005 at 5:01 PM Rating: Decent
DoT Damage, either in group or solo kite, is about damage per tick. When I cast something, I want it to continue to take away HP on a per tick basis. The longer it lasts, the less I have to recast, the better. Whether that is 75 per tick, or 350+ per tick.

This seems like a pretty good spell to have in the line up to me.


Karnon Kryptkeeper
65th Season Arch Lich
Creators Path
Bertoxxulous
chaos plague
# Oct 05 2004 at 7:13 AM Rating: Decent
this is great for long *** battles...deliver alot of damage for the mana..last long time :) very nice spell..
Just anudder upgrade
# Aug 18 2004 at 4:50 AM Rating: Decent
isn't the upgrade, like, usually supposed to last longer than what it's upgrading. sure it does more dmg than dark plague, but... maybe i just kill too slow or something.
RE: Just anudder upgrade
# Sep 26 2004 at 4:27 PM Rating: Excellent
This is not just another upgrade. At 66, it is actually our most mana efficient DoT so far; 20 * 195 == 3900 dmg for 529 mana. Thats 7.37 dmg per mana, which is very nice. Agreed, it cannot be used in most group/raid fights due to its duration, but for soloing it is awesome damage output.

Our Top Ten Most Efficient Dots at 66:

7.37 Chaos Plague
7.00 Embracing Darkness
6.75 Splurt
6.21 Dark Plague *
5.23 Night Fire
5.22 Funeral Pyre of Kelador
5.00 Pyrocruror *
4.70 Ignite Blood *
4.69 Blood of Thule
4.57 Horror

* == Upgraded spells, shown for comparison

Its a great upgrade and I hope to have it soon :)

Rhiga Mordis of Brell

Edited, Sun Sep 26 17:35:47 2004
RE: Just anudder upgrade
# Sep 22 2004 at 5:18 PM Rating: Default
The spell is crap really in dps compared to Horror/funeral pyre or blood of thule not unless you want to use a disease based spell intentionally.
Otherwise I will be sticking to the older spells till I get something better.

I want to try and knock down the mob as quick as possible.
Dps ratio compared to my other main dots are too low to make this one worth to cast.

Manarin
RE: Just anudder upgrade
# Sep 22 2004 at 9:52 AM Rating: Decent
How long do you want a DoT spell to last? 2 minutes is long enough. In many cases it is too long. There aren't many fights that go much over 2 minutes other than Raid mobs and I would rather have a spell that I can use effectively on most mobs rather than just a few mobs.

Most necromancers prefer shorter DoTs anyway. Better chance of getting the full damage from it before the mob dies.

P.S. And yes, you may need to kill faster :P


Lich Lord Getshorty Bonesmuggler
66 Arch Lich
RE: Just anudder upgrade
# Sep 14 2004 at 11:58 PM Rating: Good
actually they usually up dmg and take duration away. look at most our post 60 spells.
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