07-05-2003, 03:25 AM
>>If you miss the '7' Hit Shift that would certainly make Fireball look way too good.
You know, when I first looked at fireball's huge damage ramp I thought I might have missed a shift, but didn't find it. Okay, I retract my complaint about fireball, it does big damage but takes too many skill points to ramp it up that high, so it's not unbalanced.
However I don't know where you're getting your lightning numbers. Lightning does 1-272 base at level 20. Synergies give 480% extra damage. Lightning mastery gives another 278%. Total is ~9 - 2334 damage which is 1171 average damage, not 2900. The mpq also has another damage entry for lightning (10 - 20 + 4/lvl) but I don't know how that figures in.
My comments about bone spirit still stand though.
You know, when I first looked at fireball's huge damage ramp I thought I might have missed a shift, but didn't find it. Okay, I retract my complaint about fireball, it does big damage but takes too many skill points to ramp it up that high, so it's not unbalanced.
However I don't know where you're getting your lightning numbers. Lightning does 1-272 base at level 20. Synergies give 480% extra damage. Lightning mastery gives another 278%. Total is ~9 - 2334 damage which is 1171 average damage, not 2900. The mpq also has another damage entry for lightning (10 - 20 + 4/lvl) but I don't know how that figures in.
My comments about bone spirit still stand though.