03-29-2005, 08:01 PM
Treesh,Mar 29 2005, 10:36 AM Wrote:Just make sure that before you put that fire nova totem down that all the critters around have been tagged by someone otherwise they make a beeline for that totem, kill it before it can go off and then you're out the mana and haven't done any damage. Unless that behavior has been changed in this last patch, just placing a nova totem caused the critters to flock to that first if they hadn't been touched my anything yet. Very annoying behavior so I tend to use magma more since it doesn't generate the hate.As of the last patch, magma totem now generates hate as you would expect.
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Magma totem is more mana efficient than fire nova, assuming it can run for the full duration. Practically, though, fire nova is often a better choice since AE situations frequently have the mobs killed in under 20 seconds.