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AtomicMew
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U29 arcanebolt/blast
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Some testing:
15 levels of wizard levels (4 fvs/1 barb):
Caster level = wizard caster level
Intense faith works for +3 caster levels
Arcane soldier gloves DOES NOT work
Untested:
Maximum caster level?
Abishai set?
Unclear whether there is a maximum caster level, but it seems to be doing pretty decent damage and casts at the same speed as normal spells.
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Re: U29 arcanebolt/blast
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Also, mental honing is super easy to build up because ardcane blast multiprocs.
There seems to be two possible routes for Master of Knowledge builds:
1) Just use arcane blast to quickly build up procs and ignore its damage. E.g., 12 warlock/6 wiz/2 FvS
2) Use arcane blast/bolt for reals and not just to proc mental honing. E.g., 18 wiz/2 FvS
20d6 AoE force damage for free seems quite good.
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It has a save so meh, id rather have better crit chance, zerging, and overall dmg. Use it for aoe spam to build up is easiest way.
And fyi fully decked out I got a 70k and 35k crit from ruins on red named kobolds
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Teth wrote
on Dec 5
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It has a save so meh, id rather have better crit chance, zerging, and overall dmg. Use it for aoe spam to build up is easiest way.
And fyi fully decked out I got a 70k and 35k crit from ruins on red named kobolds
With or without mental honing?
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Cant copy my spell toons, so I will have to do a 5 trs to get a comparable model to test.
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Teth wrote
on Dec 5
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It has a save so meh, id rather have better crit chance, zerging, and overall dmg. Use it for aoe spam to build up is easiest way.
And fyi fully decked out I got a 70k and 35k crit from ruins on red named kobolds
Does that include the 25% crit damage clickey from the new Mabar?
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SayWhatAgain wrote
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Does that include the 25% crit damage clickey from the new Mabar?
Nope, I never even knew that existed.
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"NEW: Archmage's Arcane Bolt and Arcane Blast SLAs now benefit from Maximize, Empower, Quicken, and Heighten metamagic feats.
NEW: Archmage's Arcane Bolt and Arcane Blast SLAs now scale with Spell Power at the normal rate (rather than 50%.)"
Are these things useful now?
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DoRayEgon wrote
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Are these things useful now?
Less useless, anyway.
Still evade-able, and they only count as lvl 2 and 4 spells, so they're nothing to build around.
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Starkjade wrote
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Less useless, anyway.
Still evade-able, and they only count as lvl 2 and 4 spells, so they're nothing to build around.
Um,
Heighten?
Also, build for some DC's. It's reflex, most stuff won't make that save. Use another spell on things that will. These just got A LOT more attractive.
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harharharhar wrote
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Um,
Heighten?
Also, build for some DC's. It's reflex, most stuff won't make that save. Use another spell on things that will. These just got A LOT more attractive.
Did you manage to do some testing on DCs? You'd expect them to be affected by evocation DC modifiers, but I have a feeling they aren't knowing turbine.
If that's the case, heighten would still be pretty useless, since you wouldn't be able to get the DCs high enough to matter.
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Starkjade wrote
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Less useless, anyway.
Still evade-able, and they only count as lvl 2 and 4 spells, so they're nothing to build around.
Master of knowledge is kind of forcing you to build around them. I guess it depends on how much evasion there is in new content. Personally I am going for the more balanced approach with high wizard levels.
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