Plasmatic Pulse

[Yngwiem]

<DIV>I was reading in another forum about how Plasmatic Pulse (lvl 28.6 spell) is not putting a DoT on the mob. Last night while in a group, I decided to try this spell out. What I had read in the forums, turns out to be true. It does a little over 100 damage on the initial hit, but does not add the DoT.</DIV> <DIV>I went ahead and put this in as a Bug.... but was wondering everyone else's experience with it.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>If you have noticed this too, I suggest to /Bug it, so that "maybe" it might get fixed.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV>

[Telcontari71]

<DIV>Well every spells has its uses.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>This one I love as it is my pulling spell.   I use it when I solo and need to pull something.  This one has fantastic range.  Try it...   U can usally pull mobs pretty far away.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Aslo then RoC them.    Plus since it has very low aggro generation,  if I pull, someone else can easily take aggro.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Nimrodel</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Best Wizard in Ascended Heroes</DIV>

[Yngwiem]

<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> Telcontari71 wrote:<BR> <DIV>Well every spells has its uses.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>This one I love as it is my pulling spell.   I use it when I solo and need to pull something.  This one has fantastic range.  Try it...   U can usally pull mobs pretty far away.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Aslo then RoC them.    Plus since it has very low aggro generation,  if I pull, someone else can easily take aggro.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Nimrodel</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Best Wizard in Ascended Heroes</DIV><BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR>I agree that it may have it's purpose, but it is not working like the description says it is. It is supposed to have a DoT, but the DoT part is not working. That is the point of the original post.

[Stavenh]

<blockquote><hr>Yngwiem wrote:<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> Telcontari71 wrote:<BR> <DIV>Well every spells has its uses.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>This one I love as it is my pulling spell.   I use it when I solo and need to pull something.  This one has fantastic range.  Try it...   U can usally pull mobs pretty far away.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Aslo then RoC them.    Plus since it has very low aggro generation,  if I pull, someone else can easily take aggro.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Nimrodel</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Best Wizard in Ascended Heroes</DIV><BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR>I agree that it may have it's purpose, but it is not working like the description says it is. It is supposed to have a DoT, but the DoT part is not working. That is the point of the original post. <hr></blockquote>I think it has a chance for a DOT to be added, even though it doesn't exactly say chance, and implies every single time. Personally, the dot should be every time. or at least, a much higher chance for it. I think it's like 10%

[Beghard]

<DIV>Well it dots for me, maby you just dont know how to play. Normaly theres a window on the left of the secreen that has something called maintained spells  in it. When  i cast PP it some time shows up, you can always tel lbecause it makes a sound when it does it. It SHOULD do it more ofin though.</DIV>

[Dramadon]

Plasmatic pulse does not always add the dot. The spell only has a small chance of adding the dot. Use it as a minor nuke, but don't depend on the damage of the dot. <div></div>

[Yngwiem]

<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> Beghard wrote:<BR> <DIV>Well it dots for me, maby you just dont know how to play. Normaly theres a window on the left of the secreen that has something called maintained spells  in it. When  i cast PP it some time shows up, you can always tel lbecause it makes a sound when it does it. It SHOULD do it more ofin though.</DIV><BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE> <P><BR>Brilliant!! Just freaking amazing!!! maby? Maybe I DO know how to play!! Made it to almost 30 mostly soloing. </P> <P>How about some insite like some others, instead of assuming that someone doesn't know how to play!!</P> <P>I also play with the sound off.</P> <P> </P>

[TheWhiteRaid]

<P>I am so sick of hearing "You don't know how to play your class!"  It is a cheap attempt to make the poster look like an idiot so you don't have to deal with his points.</P> <P> </P> <P>I mean a poster could say this...</P> <P>"Hey SOE can you please fix broken nuke 2?  I mean when I cast it little pink butterflies come out and start attacking me.   Then they turn my team mates into frogs and then they turn the mob into Nagafen.   I then crash to the desktop and little green men crash my computer.   After all that my hard drive is formated.  When I re-install the OS and the game the little green men come back and take over my left foot.  I walk over to the kitchen and punch my dad/mom/wife/ect in the face.   The green men go away, but then the pink butterflies take over the country and threaten to nuke all of main land Europe.  Please fix it.  It was only ment to do 500-800 heat damage!"</P> <DIV>And of course the reply is</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>"You don't know how you play your class!"</DIV><p>Message Edited by TheWhiteRaider on <span class=date_text>07-11-2005</span> <span class=time_text>11:06 PM</span>

[Stavenh]

<blockquote><hr>Beghard wrote:<DIV>Well it dots for me, maby you just dont know how to play. Normaly theres a window on the left of the secreen that has something called maintained spells  in it. When  i cast PP it some time shows up, you can always tel lbecause it makes a sound when it does it. It SHOULD do it more ofin though.</DIV><hr></blockquote>That's really sad to try and prove a point this way.As most people have pointed out, it doesn't always add a dot.And it doesn't take knowing how to play your class to see if the dot is working or not working.Maybe you don't know how to post?

[HairyDustBall]

<i> <font color="#6666ff"> Plasmatic pulse does not always add the dot. The spell only has a small chance of adding the dot. Use it as a minor nuke, but don't depend on the damage of the dot. </font></i><font color="#6666ff"><font color="#ffffff">Why use it as a minor nuke I have 2 minor nukes (Ice Spike and BOT) that I can chain cast with no time lost in  between casting both do  much more damage then this spell...  I try and see a point but if it doesn't dot all the time it is useless compared to what is already in my bar.... I can do 100 damge with the chance of 100 more or I can use ice spike or BOT which is always 180 to 250 damage.  </font> </font>

[Yngwiem]

<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> HairyDustBall wrote:<BR><I><BR><FONT color=#6666ff>Plasmatic pulse does not always add the dot. The spell only has a small chance of adding the dot. Use it as a minor nuke, but don't depend on the damage of the dot.<BR><BR><BR></FONT></I><FONT color=#6666ff><FONT color=#ffffff>Why use it as a minor nuke I have 2 minor nukes (Ice Spike and BOT) that I can chain cast with no time lost in  between casting both do  much more damage then this spell...  I try and see a point but if it doesn't dot all the time it is useless compared to what is already in my bar.... I can do 100 damge with the chance of 100 more or I can use ice spike or BOT which is always 180 to 250 damage.  </FONT><BR></FONT><BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE> <P><BR>I agree... Why use a 100 point nuke when you can use bigger guns?</P> <P>I guess you would want to use the smaller nuke to maybe pull, but not cause too much aggro so that the tank can pull it off of you.</P> <P>Personally.... I will scrap this spell. I think at lvl 28.6, there should be a better spell... but that is my opinion!! DOH!</P> <P> </P>

[Stavenh]

<blockquote><hr>Yngwiem wrote:<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> HairyDustBall wrote:<BR><I><BR><FONT color=#6666ff>Plasmatic pulse does not always add the dot. The spell only has a small chance of adding the dot. Use it as a minor nuke, but don't depend on the damage of the dot.<BR><BR><BR></FONT></I><FONT color=#6666ff><FONT color=#ffffff>Why use it as a minor nuke I have 2 minor nukes (Ice Spike and BOT) that I can chain cast with no time lost in  between casting both do  much more damage then this spell...  I try and see a point but if it doesn't dot all the time it is useless compared to what is already in my bar.... I can do 100 damge with the chance of 100 more or I can use ice spike or BOT which is always 180 to 250 damage.  </FONT><BR></FONT><BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE> <P><BR>I agree... Why use a 100 point nuke when you can use bigger guns?</P> <P>I guess you would want to use the smaller nuke to maybe pull, but not cause too much aggro so that the tank can pull it off of you.</P> <P>Personally.... I will scrap this spell. I think at lvl 28.6, there should be a better spell... but that is my opinion!! DOH!</P> <P> </P> <hr></blockquote>Well, nukes have longer ranges then debuffs and such. So let say you wanted to pull at a longer distance, but there were to many other mobs around for a tank to safely get close and taunt, and no one had a range attack.You could pull with a low damage spell and the tank could taunt it, and damage done wasn't to much to make it hard for the tank to taunt it off you.However, I've seldom encoutered this problem.

[TooFarGo]

<span><blockquote><hr>Yngwiem wrote: <blockquote> <hr> Beghard wrote: <div>Well it dots for me, maby you just dont know how to play. Normaly theres a window on the left of the secreen that has something called maintained spells  in it. When  i cast PP it some time shows up, you can always tel lbecause it makes a sound when it does it. It SHOULD do it more ofin though.</div> <hr> </blockquote> <p>Brilliant!! Just freaking amazing!!! maby? Maybe I DO know how to play!! Made it to almost 30 mostly soloing. </p> <p>How about some insite like some others, instead of assuming that someone doesn't know how to play!!</p> <p>I also play with the sound off.</p> <hr></blockquote>Wow, was that the same guy from the other post? no wait...two different names. Seems you have made some real nice friends out there </span><span>Yngwiem</span><span>...........=P Anywho, yes PP has from what I can tell a proc to it, it seems to fire about 5-10% of the time.  DoT? I've never parsed logs, but from what I can tell it is a single additional DD.  I've never noticed a DoT icon for PP pop up on the maintained spell window. Ever.  Maybe go to Antonica, turn logging on, and juse use PP on some lowly gnolls? Sounds like a good test to me, but I don't have logalizer or whatever is good for EQ2. Can someone test this? </span><div></div>

[TooFarGo]

<span><blockquote><hr>Telcontari71 wrote:<div>Well every spells has its uses.</div> <div> </div> <div>This one I love as it is my pulling spell.   I use it when I solo and need to pull something.  This one has fantastic range.  Try it...   U can usally pull mobs pretty far away.</div> <div> </div> <div>Aslo then RoC them.    Plus since it has very low aggro generation,  if I pull, someone else can easily take aggro.</div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div>Nimrodel</div> <div> </div> <div>Best Wizard in Ascended Heroes</div><hr></blockquote>As for pulling spells, I still use "incinerate".  It also has a nice range.  I need to check  which of the two has the greater range. Plus, I love the animation for it.  My healer friend says "when he raises his arms in the air, I know some (curse word) is about to fly!" hehehehhehehe</span><div></div>

[TooFarGo]

<div></div><span><blockquote><hr>HairyDustBall wrote:<i> <font color="#6666ff"> Plasmatic pulse does not always add the dot. The spell only has a small chance of adding the dot. Use it as a minor nuke, but don't depend on the damage of the dot. </font></i><font color="#6666ff"><font color="#ffffff">Why use it as a minor nuke I have 2 minor nukes (Ice Spike and BOT) that I can chain cast with no time lost in  between casting both do  much more damage then this spell...  I try and see a point but if it doesn't dot all the time it is useless compared to what is already in my bar.... I can do 100 damge with the chance of 100 more or I can use ice spike or BOT which is always 180 to 250 damage.  </font> </font><hr></blockquote>I agree...PP is great for HO's and such, but the damage it does for the power it costs just doesn't seem worth it.  BotT isn't all that great either, but I like the quick recast time on it. PP + BotT are great time fillers and medium-sized nukes, but I think they should do slightly more damage OR cost less mana.</span><div></div><p>Message Edited by TooFarGone on <span class=date_text>07-12-2005</span> <span class=time_text>03:23 PM</span>

[Dramadon]

<span><blockquote><hr>HairyDustBall wrote:<i> <font color="#6666ff"> Plasmatic pulse does not always add the dot. The spell only has a small chance of adding the dot. Use it as a minor nuke, but don't depend on the damage of the dot. </font></i><font color="#6666ff"><font color="#ffffff">Why use it as a minor nuke I have 2 minor nukes (Ice Spike and BOT) that I can chain cast with no time lost in  between casting both do  much more damage then this spell...  I try and see a point but if it doesn't dot all the time it is useless compared to what is already in my bar.... I can do 100 damge with the chance of 100 more or I can use ice spike or BOT which is always 180 to 250 damage.  </font> </font><hr></blockquote> I like variety. So sue me. I wasn't saying that's what you should do, I was just saying how it should be used if you keep it racked. If you like some variety in the spells you cast, keep it loaded. If the reason you play is to win dps races, then you probably shouldn't use this spell (and you should be playing a warlock anyway then).</span><div></div>