Ok lets math this spell out. 3200 damage with 7 sec cast speed is 457 dps. Add in the 25% chance to do 100% more damage (on next cast) if you consider you're spamming this spell thats 25% more damage, for a total dps of 571. A 1% chance to do 50% less damage means the avg damage without the increased damage is 434. The avg of the lower and higher end is (571+434)/ 2= 502 dps.
Ok so the spell is avg 502 dps. Ether Flame is avg 731 dps, Ancient Spear of Gelaqua is 564 dps. Ancient core fire is 508 dps. Finally, Chaos flame is 500 dps. However, even though its 2 dps higher than chaos flame for DPS, chaos flame is a much faster cast, meaning you clip your casts less and get more real damage on the mob. Also, when you add in mana recursion if you have an ench in your group, you get more benefit out of faster casts with mana recursion, because it adds flat damage to your casts and therefore gives more benefit to faster casting spells. Mana recursion is 840 damage 10% of the time, so an avg of 84 damage per cast. If you add 84 damage to a 100 second cast, thats basically nothing. Adding 84 damage to a 0.5 sec cast is big dps.
Anyway, all that being said, this spell is very meh. You could fish for procs and then cast Ether flame and boost its dps to 913, but I feel like this is a waste of time. Spell seems meh.
Some times when I see the last person to post was in 2009 it makes me wonder why the **** I just wrote this blog post rofl.
Edited, Aug 14th 2023 10:31am by Defresco