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"BillChin" <Wch...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I looked over the rune word list at the Lurker lounge.
>
> http://spirea.lurkerlounge.com/Rune_Words.shtml
>
> Many, many seem combat oriented.  Blizzard can add Rune Words with
> each patch, so I'd thought it be interesting to start a thread about
> what spell casters might want.
>
> Here are some suggestions:
> Add damage to spells.  Combat characters have charms, deadly strike,
> crushing blow, enhanced damage, mods all over the place.  This is a
> glaring omission in the game.  You could break up spells into various
> categories:
> +1 fire damage to all fire spells (maybe up to +5 max)
> +1 lightning damage
> +1 bone spell damage
> +1 holy spell (holy bolt, fist of heavens, blessed hammer)
> +1 wind spell damage (twister, hurricane)
> +1 to poison spells
> Instead of +1 damage for cold spells, maybe increase cold duration
> 20%, or maybe have both.
>
> You could add these mods to rune words to staves, wands, scepters and
> orbs (and maybe clubs for druids).  These could also be charms, though
> the coding may be a bit hairy at this point in the release cycle.
> Note that this above and beyond adding +1 skills to a certain type of
> spell.  +1 skill charms might be a bit unbalancing.  Adding damage is
> something spell casters need with the much tougher monsters.
>
> As a parallel to deadly strike, have something like deadly spell.
> This could be the same, doing double damage, but maybe a more
> interesting concept is MAX DAMAGE.  So a staff with 25% deadly spell
> enables the caster to do max damage on any spell 25% of the time.
> Great for stuff like Fist of Heavens or Chain lightning.  I think this
> would be relatively easy to implement and have low risk of unbalancing
> the game.  Deadly strike is a useless mod for a spell caster.  They
> can't hit anything later in the game, and even if they do, double 10
> points of damage from a wand, is 20 points.  Like that helps you.
>
> As a parallel to spells going off when you hit a monster, how about
> spells going off when you cast.  Something like 5% of casting frost
> nova when you cast any spell.  Now that would a LOT more useful than
> 5% when you get hit.  As the game progresses a spell caster can only
> take two or three before dying, so these when you hit mods are
> basically worthless to a non-melee character.
>
> Another possible mod, 25% chance of a free spell, meaning a spell
> costs no mana to cast 25% of the time.  How much would that mod be
> worth to you?  To max this value, have it work even if you don't have
> any mana.  That would be worth a lot against mana drain monsters, and
> not mean instant death as it often does now when that blue ball
> suddenly goes empty.
>
> Let's me hear you ideas or comments about the ones I thought about.  I
> hope Blizzard can implement some of these ideas in the future.
> - Bill

Considering just how obscenely powerful the sorcs got in the xpack, the last
thing they need is a way to do even more damage. And really, +1 to fire
damage? When firewall for instance can do 4,000 damage a second, +1 more
isn't even a drop in the bucket. Necros and perhaps elemental druids can use
something of a boost, but it would be rather hard to boost them without also
boosting the sorc. Most people now are calling for nerfs to the sorc(I
personally don't agree with them, but then again I disagree with the very
concept of nerfing), not a way to make them even more powerful.