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On Sun, 08 Jul 2001 19:38:18 GMT, "Mufasa" <muf...@optonline.net>
wrote:

>"BillChin" <Wch...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>news:3af9848e.0107081118.69254f49@posting.google.com...
>> 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.
>
powerful? yeah ok firewall is powerful...except when the enemy is fire
immune, and 4000 dmg at what lvl is that? 25? the highest i have any
spell is 12 (thunderstorm) and i take forever to kill anything in a
8player nm game...but generally the sorcs aren't that powerful...

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