06-21-2012, 04:53 PM
(06-21-2012, 01:23 PM)Kylearan Wrote: What happens is that when I fight a single, small monster, often only the middle missile would hit while the two outer missiles miss the target. That means my damage in this case went down from 110% (normal Magic Missile) to 50% (only one missile hits). WTF?!? Argh, that really hurts. Even against mobs where all three missiles hit, they often hit different enemies. I'd rather concentrate my fire against one monster at a time to take it out quickly. I feel this is essential without a crowd control skill - so with Split I made the first step into Variant Land, and it took some time for me to adapt. At least against big monsters, Split does more damage than a vanilla Magic Missile...
One thing of note with MM/Split: You can control the cone of the split to some degree by altering the distance of your cursor. The closer your cursor to your character the wider the split, the further away your cursor the narrower the split. This is really useful when trying to target down single mobs. Just fire it off with your cursor as far away as possible and you can often hit single targets with all of the missles.