Runes of Magic US / AU

Flame has a three second cast time. Cast times multiply the damage and make it more damage. That's why flame hits harder than Fireball.

Wow Bor. That's, like, concise and stuff. Here's the Fannified version:

Every second of cast time on any spell gives it a damage multiplier, Wake. So, like, Flame has a cast time of three seconds- that gives it a cast time multiplier of three. Fireball is an instant cast, so it has no cast time multiplier. A priest's Rising Tide has a two second cast, so it has a cast time multiplier of two.

So, let's do some math just so you can see clearly why Flame hits so much harder than fireball. All numbers are made up, but they'll show the relationship:

Fireball: 50 damage, instant cast, does 50 damage.
Flame: 50 damage, 3 second cast, does 150 damage.
Rising Tide: 50 damage, 2 second cast, does 100 damage.

Now, imagine that you could get a spell like Flame to take .5 seconds to cast? Then you'd be able to do a lot more damage, because you'd still be getting the cast time modifier without having to take the time to cast the spell. That's why mages use a lot of cast time reducing buffs in a boss fight. That's where we get all our crazy burst dps. For about 30 seconds, any mage can get .5 to .7 second flames if they use buffs like guitar, Ancient Spirit Water, Arcane Potion and our skill Elemental Catalysis (which gets interesting at level 65).

Mage dps is pretty sad outside of our burst mode, but in burst, when we have all those buffs on, we can cast about 5 or 6 flames in three seconds, so we end up getting a lot of bang for our flame buck.

Cast time multipliers work on all spells that have a cast time- even Wardens have them, even Scouts. That's why Snipe hits so hard.

That is indeed some great information. Concise as well. Thanks for helping Borella!

Might want to add, that casting time multiplier only includes original casting time of spell, so damage won't go lower when you stack casting speed reducing buffs. :p

Sadly enough, spell damage is broken anyways and mostly mdmg and original casting time with some elemental boosting skills matters. Let's say example fireball with 2030k fire damage + 0,3 int hits nearly as hard as lightning with 522 wind damage + 0,1 int... Spell damage is just some mean joke. Skill levels still add some extra damage too and it's recommended to max all skills you use later on. You can see quite a big difference between some 10-20 skill levels already, but one level here or there is not that much.


Hopefully chapter 5 will bring cooldowns back again with some improvements to last fail attempt, and maybe some % from original cast time to minimum cast time instead of flat 0,5 for all spells like all mage damage fail numbers. That might make other skills more useful and playing mage more interesting.

...and of course not forgetting to fix those spell damages and maybe make elemental resistances more useful and... [insert an endless list here]

if they just would add the % weapon dps to the skill like non-casters....it would rain puppies. scalable skills and non-burn dps fixed. cast speed modifying buffs would increase dmg a bit just as non-casters and all would be well with world.

well i guess you'd have to overhaul the entire...nm

puppies

Quoted from "pazuzzu;534008"

if they just would add the % weapon dps to the skill like non-casters....it would rain puppies. scalable skills and non-burn dps fixed. cast speed modifying buffs would increase dmg a bit just as non-casters and all would be well with world.

well i guess you'd have to overhaul the entire...nm

puppies

Yeah, I'm not sure how much i trust them to rebalance it...Flame now does 52% offhand weapon dps + 0.7*dex

But if done right, it would be a very welcome change

Quoted from "Quaffy2;534009"

Yeah, I'm not sure how much i trust them to rebalance it...Flame now does 52% offhand weapon dps + 0.7*dex

But if done right, it would be a very welcome change

stay p/s.

Quoted from "gigilomann;534011"

stay p/s.

I'm as much mage as i am p/s, same combo as fan actually. Notice my picture is m/p and sig reading m/p/s

But yeah in arena/siege u'll see me as p/s. Don't think I forgot that one match when u went to the dark side, once you go p/s...umm something to do with staying p/s but also rhyming somehow. Man, I think I need to go to sleep now

Quoted from "Quaffy2;534019"

I'm as much mage as i am p/s, same combo as fan actually. Notice my picture is m/p and sig reading m/p/s

But yeah in arena/siege u'll see me as p/s. Don't think I forgot that one match when u went to the dark side, once you go p/s...umm something to do with staying p/s but also rhyming somehow. Man, I think I need to go to sleep now

once you go p/s ... there's never a doubt?.. once you go p/s.. you'll do nothing but pout? :p.. Once you go p/s all you'llw ant to do is shout..

yea im bad at this lol

Dayum... every second is a multiplier....
I wish my Low Blow had a 10 second cast time and I could start my cast while in Hide. <3 *sigh*

Quoted from "L3g3nd;534122"

Dayum... every second is a multiplier....
I wish my Low Blow had a 10 second cast time and I could start my cast while in Hide. <3 *sigh*

Cause that's what rogues need is to be more OP.

Quoted from "L3g3nd;534122"

Dayum... every second is a multiplier....
I wish my Low Blow had a 10 second cast time and I could start my cast while in Hide. <3 *sigh*

I'd be ok with that, seeing as when you are casting for 10seconds moving would interrupt it and you'd be very unlikely to pull that off in pvp against anything that can move.

Quoted from "Quaffy2;534145"

I'd be ok with that, seeing as when you are casting for 10seconds moving would interrupt it and you'd be very unlikely to pull that off in pvp against anything that can move.

Oh yes I almost forgot about the 50 distance thing. The distance has to be increased to 200 which is fair because players can travel like what? 400m in 10 seconds?

EDIT: Anyways back on topic. Interesting to note that cast time = direct multiplier. Never knew that.