catalystic mind

[chily]

<p>I just saw that catalystic mind has a nuke at least a bigger dmg now on termination, when did the spell change coz it looks new to me lol*Applies Convulions on termination.   * Inflicts 1189-1429 mental damage on target.</p><p>Dmg based on master1 with 721int and + 310 spell dmg.</p><p>poss that i changed a while ago since i don't check my spells often :/</p>

[Encantador]

<p>Thanks for pointing that out Chilli .. had not noticed it myself.</p><p>Now I have to find a way to let it go to termination.</p><p>Weird isnt it ? Even when they try to boost us they do it in a naff way. On termination ? so the more AA we spend on boosting Cataclysmic mind the less DPS this is worth.</p>

[chily]

<p>yes crazy but i think you can cast it on more then 1 mob so a nice thing for encounters.It's like breakdown for the big thing don't spamm it.I spend 3 point's in it for more % and only 6sec longer duration.A bit weird yes, but only with that you can get auspex and spellsource triggers +2 so our dmg still inc with it.Instead on termination a dot every 10secs would be kewl.</p><p>I only hope the Convulions gte renamed once maybe :/ like MeleeConvulions SpellConvulions and mindConvulions.</p>

[chily]

<p>other thing ... did Breakdown got changed?I checked parser yesterday and saw the big dmg at start and then lower hit's.700dmg at start then 300dmg ticks.i think it did 300 ticks before with 700 on termination :/</p>

[Lint26]

You're seeing the effect of the +spell damage change there.  With all dots being frontloaded now, the intial tick will go for +310 higher than subsequent ticks (as thats the spell dmg you quoted).

[chily]

<p>+damage and +heal items have been changed. Instead of normalizing by casting time you will get the full benefit on non AoE spells if the casting time is greater than .5 seconds and the reuse time is greater than 2 seconds. </p><p>ahh gotcha</p>

[Kiintac]

Yeah, I noticed this add on damage....and huh?   My AAs make this worse !?!!  I've now begun it to cast it on one of the mobs in a two up encounter.   As my pet and I are killing one the mobs, CMind is ticking away on another mob.  By the time it does damage, I have either begun to work on the mezzed mob or Cmind has broken mezz, which by that time I am about ready for it.  It is all a timing issue.Although I like the damage, I have put another mark into "SOE did another [Removed for Content] (read:unthought out) thing."

[Turb]

It's a bit like Tenure for brigands, where our dot duration went up because all timers went up 15% or so with the AA.      But I think they fixed that in the end....

[Cosmasi]

I jsut saw a parse where cataclismic hit for 45000 this seems wrong but hey if it is that good I cast every time

[Mistletoes]

That must have been an old parse. That was in the old days, when epic mobs spent power, and when they AE'd, they really racked up some damage.