Fire spells still underperforming

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Mashgesture#2912 написал:

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imphilxd#4709 написал:

Everyone agreed in 0.1 that spells were undertuned and that all the caster builds were being carried by archmage.

Instead of buffing spells. Support gems were instead nerfed and there weren't even significant buffs to spells.

Going through the campaign as a fire sorc is incredibly unfun since you don't have enough damage as well as lacking survivability early game. I don't want to slog to 52 to unlock flameblast to do semi-decent damage on a 15 second cooldown.

- One of the few fire spell players

Need to take a look at your loadout fire spells are pretty good actually.

Comparing them to archmage and lightning conduit brain off in .1, is not where we should be setting the bar.


edit: Ember is really good for single target.


Ignite is in a terrible spot I will agree, fire spells damage though no.

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sluggo__#2988 написал:

Agree., Some kind of high single target spell is needed, we only have incinerate as of now.
Maybe make comet do fire dmg through a support gem or something?

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imphilxd#4709 написал:

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Mashgesture#2912 написал:

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imphilxd#4709 написал:

Everyone agreed in 0.1 that spells were undertuned and that all the caster builds were being carried by archmage.

Instead of buffing spells. Support gems were instead nerfed and there weren't even significant buffs to spells.

Going through the campaign as a fire sorc is incredibly unfun since you don't have enough damage as well as lacking survivability early game. I don't want to slog to 52 to unlock flameblast to do semi-decent damage on a 15 second cooldown.

- One of the few fire spell players

Need to take a look at your loadout fire spells are pretty good actually.

Comparing them to archmage and lightning conduit brain off in .1, is not where we should be setting the bar.


edit: Ember is really good for single target.


Ignite is in a terrible spot I will agree, fire spells damage though no.

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sluggo__#2988 написал:

Agree., Some kind of high single target spell is needed, we only have incinerate as of now.
Maybe make comet do fire dmg through a support gem or something?

Well actually, single target isn't the problem. You have flameblast and ember fusillade when flameblast is on cooldown.

The problem is fireball's damage is too low as pure fire. It's only used as a ricochet gimmick in other builds so maybe devs don't see a need to buff it. There's no other alternative mobbing skill as a fire sorc so fireball needs to be stronger imo.

But all fire spells on the low end definitely need a buff. Damage on the high end is decent, but mana costs are such a huge issue that I can't afford to level my gem from 17 to 20 so I'm missing 3 levels of damage on all my spells. So I'm missing a lot of damage from 3 levels.

And the fire archetype as a whole should be about doing massive damage. Currently you have ice which can freeze and lightning which can shock that both outperform fire that has no defensive aspects. As a purely offensive archetype, they should do more damage.

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sluggo__#2988 написал:

except flameblast is on a long cd, and ember fusillade is prob the most annoying spell to use the the game. having to set up 2 of the same spell and alternate casting between them to do decent damage is not fun

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imphilxd#4709 написал:

Everyone agreed in 0.1 that spells were undertuned and that all the caster builds were being carried by archmage.

Instead of buffing spells. Support gems were instead nerfed and there weren't even significant buffs to spells.

Going through the campaign as a fire sorc is incredibly unfun since you don't have enough damage as well as lacking survivability early game. I don't want to slog to 52 to unlock flameblast to do semi-decent damage on a 15 second cooldown.

- One of the few fire spell players

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Werdx_1#3669 написал:

Mob speed ,mob power even at lower tiers and constant crappy OP map mods are clear proof game isn't meant for anything other than meta builds.