Anyone have ice spike adept III yet?

[greenhor]

<DIV>If so what damage are you maxing out at?  I'm lvl 28 and ice spike adept I is outdamaging everything except BOF adept III.  Wondering if it's worth upgrading to adept III ice spike or if i'll still outlevel it soon at this point.</DIV>

[TheC]

<DIV>No way it outdamages freeze and blazing intimadation which do 300 now.</DIV>

[Dusty-Hadis]

<blockquote><hr>TheCoZ wrote:<DIV>No way it outdamages freeze and blazing intimadation which do 300 now.</DIV><hr></blockquote>Translation: No, I don't have the adept 3 yet.

[greenhor]

<DIV>true, but freeze is on a 20 sec. (?) timer and ice spike is basically cast/repeat.  Blazing intimidation is new to me but you're right, i'm getting higher damage with that.  30 second recast?  </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>so if you take into account how often you can actually use the spells, ice spike is still the highest damage.</DIV>

[Luna]

<DIV>I wouldn't waste much money on freeze adept 3 or anything. I'm level 41 and it doesn't work on any mobs I've encountered over the last few levels. You get a message saying your target it to powerful, so I'd leave it at adept 1.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV>

[TheC]

<DIV>No I don't have adept III, I'm the same level as you greenhorn.  I think it would be a total waste to buy it now,  if I was level 15, hell yes I'd buy it.   But now its blue or green and I'd rather spend my money on an orange or yellow spell.   But, if you have a T2 rare and you can make it yourself it would be worth it.   Personally I don't use ice spike, I use freeze, blazing intimedation, fireball, golliath's frostfire and dots. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>On a similar note, what the hell does plasmatic pulse supposed to do?  Is it just me or does it rarely add the DoT?  </DIV>

[Vel Ke]

<DIV>Just to give you an idea at lvl 37.  Ice spike at adept I does 200-271 damage and still lands on Con red mobs.  Freeze at adept 3 does 277-388 but will not land on con Blu mobs (get the target is too powerful message) due to the stun portion of the spell.  Freeze is an awesome spell for damage and quick stun to successfully reapply your root without chance of interrupt but past 35 it is no longer useable unless fighting con green mobs.  I suspect post 40 it will not be usuable beyond grey mobs.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>If you can upgrade Ice Spike I would do that.  My app4 Plasmatic pulse (lvl 27 spell compared to Ice Spike lvl 15 spell) is listed at 156-191.  Currently Ice Spike outdamages it and is a great HO trigger due to its short cast time.  It is also considerably cheaper to cast mana wise.  I have not seen a higher rate of resist from the mobs with regard to Ice Spike (con grey spell) compared with Plasmatic Pulse (con yellow  spell, maybe con white now since I just dinged 37 a few moments ago).  For reference BotT at adept 3 lands for 182-304 so you can see lvl 15 Ice Spike easily competes with much higher DD spells at the adept level with a significantly lower mana cost.</DIV>

[TheC]

<DIV>Yeah, I'm pretty sure freeze can't hit a mob over 34. And I did notice ice spike seemed get resisted less than my other spells.</DIV>