Couple of skill rants

[Dagni]

As it stands fireball does roughy 3 times more damage than every other direct damage, non timered, skill out there.

What skills are you comparing against, and at what slvl with what synergy/mastery? Lightning is direct damage, non-timered. With the main skill, all synergies and the mastery all at slvl 20, Lightning gives about 2900 avg dmg, Fireball gives 3700 avg dmg. 3700/2900 = 1.28, not near three times. Also, Firebolt IS more mana efficient than Fireball, under these same conditions, about 1/6 the mana cost, about 1/4 the damage.

And if the only criteria is "direct damage, non-timered" than you have to compare to Charged Bolt, Chain Lightning, and Nova. Of course none of them are going to do as much damage in one particular hit, but each will generally hit far, far more than once per cast.

Are you even sure you have the damage figured correctly? If you miss the '7' Hit Shift that would certainly make Fireball look way too good. :) And there are plenty of other ways to make a math mistake when reading the mpqs by hand.

- Dagni