02-18-2003, 09:46 PM
Actually I have to disagree with you about glacial spike being better for killing things. At level 20 ice blast does 255 cold damage and glacial spike 165-173 cold damage. They will both of course end up higher than 20, but even then ice blast does more damage. As you said, ice blast also has a longer freeze duration. The only benefit I see to glacial spike is that it freezes a whole group. Hmmm reading the arreat summit it does say that glacial spike fires much faster than ice blast, but neither have casting delays so I guess that it is just the animation length is faster for glacial spike or the travel time. I'm not sure about that at all. Will it really make a difference when you get to 110 faster cast rate?