Beam of Solteris  

I don't know why you guys complain about this. Before the nerf on it a friend of mine would go around icefall glacier kiting 30 mobs at a time or more. It was frigging uber. There was absolutely no single way to get more exp then that. Now thats its been nerfed and you have a target limit yah i suppose its lame but not before that. It was very easy to level up and max out aa using that method though. You just had to have the proper aa's to use it most effectively.

The chance for the DD/blind on the caster to occur has now been corrected to work like every other instant. One chance per cast. You can no longer kill yourself in Crushbone. Rejoice.

The Rk. II version is bought from the Caster Spell vendor in Katta for 200 Orux and you need "amiably" to buy it.

HEADLINE: LEVEL 75 WIZARD KILLED IN CRUSHBONE !!

Yup. I kid you not.

You remember a line of useless spells from our early days related to that bumpkin Wizard Al`Kabor? Well, welcome to Al`Kabor's Emasculator.

Firstly let me say what I had expected: the first useful AE since our L57 Pillar of Flame. What we got: the most thoughtless, useless, screwed up, piece of s**t I've ever memmed.

The Pros:

1) it's insta.
2) a (-50) resist adjust.
3) it has a wide, if not extremely long-range area of affect.
4) there's no apparent limit to the number of MOBs you can hit.
5) can proc GoRM (unlike the L71 Wildmagic Strike).

The Cons: (where do I begin?)

1) 1390m to cast for 2473dmg (need a lot of targets for eficiency)
2) it has a chance of feedback like Flashfire of 914 dmg PER MOB YOU HIT !
3) it has a chance of BLINDING YOU for several seconds PER MOB YOU HIT !

So...... you wanna farm owlbears or sonic wolves? You agro several islands and when you get that hefty train together you turn and BAM! they're dead... and so are you.

Just think of the time savings. No longer do MOBs have to waste time whacking you for damage - you can do it all yourself. It doesn't matter the level or hitpoints of your opponent(s) - just cast and they can hit you back for 914 damage.. each.

I guess you can make the same arguement for Flashfire, but the intended targets are different - single, and usually the higher level stuff where you take it all into account. So let's change venues - let's try kiting 4 bears in Icefall (yes, we have to impose the MOB count limit ourselves now)- we still have the chance of taking 3656 damage per cast and OH YEAH, look at that - you're blind. Kiting bears in Icefall - what a great place to suddenly be blind. 4 mega hitpoint, mega hurtfull bears bearing down on you and you can't see them, or where you're going....

So from Crushbone to Hollowshade Moors to Icefall this new spell is, well - USELESS.

AE's during raiding are usually limited to a few events where several PBAE's are cast by wizards, magicians and offset by AE mezz and SK agro. If not, the agro generated would eat the AE'er(s) pretty damned fast. This new one will enjoy NO life on raids. There is more agro created because of the higher base damage - so traditional AE events will be unbalanced - SKs won't be able to keep agro; breaking mezz on MOBs in DP, Rage, etc. usually gets you insta-killed; and on top of that the spell will damage you anyway and blind you ftw.

While I've always wished we could get an upgrade to several spells like Pillar of Flame and Atol's I've never been one to clammor for them. I know there has been a bit of a lobby for it, but I figured we'd get them eventually (the "Rain" type spells don't count, useless for kiting, useless in groups, I never mem 'em). Now that some Magician-playing dev has given us this all I can say is: take it back, we don't want it.

Fanornador of Tunare

odd... what kinda target type is it. and it creates a lifeshard? thats neat i guess. but whats with the huge mana cost and low damage. if i had to chose id spam another nuke to make lifeshards

Where is this spell found and what is this lifeshard (100/20/0) all about??