EoF AA Enhance: Symbol of Corruption

[Athellias]

<DIV>Enhance: Symbol of Corruption<BR>Holy Smites<BR></DIV> <DIV>Hastens the casting speed and reduces the power cost of Symbol of Corruption. This enhancement also hastens the effect's duration, causing damage to occur faster.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Rank 1<BR>Reduces power cost by 10%<BR>Reduces duration by 2 seconds<BR>Improves casting speed by 0.1 seconds</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Rank 2<BR>Reduces power cost by 20%<BR>Reduces duration by 4 seconds<BR>Improves casting speed by 0.2 seconds</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Rank 3<BR>Reduces power cost by 30%<BR>Reduces duration by 6 seconds<BR>Improves casting speed by 0.3 seconds</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Rank 4<BR>Reduces power cost by 40%<BR>Reduces duration by 8 seconds<BR>Improves casting speed by 0.4 seconds</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Rank 5<BR>Reduces power cost by 50%<BR>Reduces duration by 10 seconds<BR>Improves casting speed by 0.5 seconds</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I currently have this spell at Apprentice IV because I never use it. That is my own personal choice. However, with this enhancement at Rank 5, the duration has been reduced from 24 to 14 seconds and it inflicts 40-49 divine damage every 2.3 seconds. That is a maximum of 298 damage.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Without this enhancement, it inflicts 40-49 divine damage every 4 seconds for 24 seconds. That is a maximum of 294 damage.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>This spell also has a debuff effect and decreases WIS of target by 30 but the AA does nothing to enhance this aspect. Could it possibly be remotely useful if it did?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>This spell is level 35 and it originates from the adventure pack "The Bloodline Chronicles". Why is there an enchancement provided for a spell that will never have an upgrade?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I'm not really going to get into my personal opinion regarding this AA. Otherwise, this whole post would be haxx0red. These are just the numbers. Let me know if I'm wrong on any of this. Does anyone use this spell anymore except for [expletive haxx0red by Raijinn]s and giggles?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I am going to add one thing because I just can't keep my mouth shut. I think they should add an extra effect to this enhancement.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>On a successful hit, this spell has a 69% chance to summon bull[expletive haxx0red by Raijinn].</DIV><p>Message Edited by Athellias on <span class=date_text>11-12-2006</span> <span class=time_text>08:28 PM</span>

[Archill]

I didn't even know this spell existed til EoF made use of it. And honestly.. it might as well not exist at all.<div></div>

[Kyom]

Err [Removed for Content]???That's a lvl 35 spell which you can only get the adept III version of and it doesn't even scale up, does it? I mean huh??<div></div>

[Kendricke]

<DIV>I haven't scribed this spell in the past year.  I don't see myself suddenly scribing it now.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV>

[Athellias]

<P>I understand when things need tweaking but this is disturbing to the core. This is not about playstyle or personal preference. Someone needs to explain to me and the Templar community how something like this gets past the concept stage.</P> <P>... no, past the water cooler or whatever they were drinking at the time when they had this discussion because something like this could only be attributed to consuming a severe amount of alcohol and/or prescription drugs.</P><p>Message Edited by Athellias on <span class=date_text>11-12-2006</span> <span class=time_text>10:12 AM</span>

[Tarta]

If you guys have any voice in beta, can you ask them to remove it for inquisitors, too, please? I think it's been on our trees as a melee conversion since NDA was lifted at least. I like your AAs, btw - enjoy <span>:smileywink:</span> Thanks <div></div>

[Israphil]

<div><blockquote><hr>primaryKey wrote:If you guys have any voice in beta, can you ask them to remove it for inquisitors, too, please? I think it's been on our trees as a melee conversion since NDA was lifted at least. I like your AAs, btw - enjoy <span>:smileywink:</span> Thanks <div></div><hr></blockquote>If you have any respect for inquisitors at all, ignore this complete idiot's post. We like it where it is.</div>

[StevusX]

<DIV>my thoughts posted in the Feedback forum:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</DIV> <DIV> <P>Although i have actually used this spell at times i agree that this AA line is a complete joke and waste of space <IMG height=16 src="http://eqiiforums.station.sony.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-mad.gif" width=16 border=0></P> <P>1- why is an AA line being done for a completely optional spell from an adventure pack ?</P> <P>2- increase in casting speed is laughable for a spell that a) isnt very good, b) isnt one of our longer cast anyway.</P> <P>3- you're REDUCING the duration by HOW MUCH !!!!!  the mind simply boggles at this.  What is the point of using it at rank 5 then ????</P> <P>4- power reduction, again pointless as power cost on this spell is negligble for any self respected reasonably geared templar.</P> <P>5- err what was the point of this line again ???</P> <P>Come on SOE - you can do a LOT better than this <IMG height=16 src="http://eqiiforums.station.sony.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-tongue.gif" width=16 border=0></P> <P>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</P> <P>PS by gum even Kendricke hasnt been able to say anything good about this AA line :smileyvery-happy:</P></DIV><p>Message Edited by StevusX on <span class=date_text>11-12-2006</span> <span class=time_text>07:38 PM</span>

[Whitemane]

<P>Have to agree. When I first saw it I was like Ummm doesnt it use the same timer as Warring Axiom? ( it doesnt I think that was just a bug from early LU13 ). To me this is a pretty useless spell. I have not cast it on live in a very very long time.</P> <P>Added to my hot bars on Beta juts to test it. </P>

[EQAditu]

<div></div>With the addition of this AA, I was hoping they were finally going to make this spell worth casting... but that was like a week ago, and patch after patch the spell is still horrible, and the AA by association.<div></div>

[Hopefulne]

<DIV>I have to agree this is a shoddy alteration to the AA's. It would've been better if they gave it a power drain or a chance to spread on the mobs' death.  Even something like a debuff which increases over duration and then does all it's damage. Increased ranks could reduce duration make it max it's debuff faster</DIV>