Can you do this one thing for us Aeralik!!!

[legacystar9]

<p>While you are fixing all these spells for coercer's and warlock's </p><p> PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD CHANGE STORMING TEMPEST TO NOT USE FREEHAND !!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p><p> we've only had to deal with this BS since AA's were put in the game.  we know you have the ability to make a spell imune to certain effects (i.e no catalyst on manaburn) so please take 5 minutes and change this thanx.</p>

[simpwrx02]

<cite>legacystar9 wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>While you are fixing all these spells for coercer's and warlock's </p><p> PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD CHANGE STORMING TEMPEST TO NOT USE FREEHAND !!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p><p> we've only had to deal with this BS since AA's were put in the game.  we know you have the ability to make a spell imune to certain effects (i.e no catalyst on manaburn) so please take 5 minutes and change this thanx.</p></blockquote><p>QFE</p><p>been like this for over 2 years, all of the benefits have been removed from the spells bugs aka proc chance on every tick, but for some reason you left it eating Freehand.</p>

[Skwor]

<cite>simpwrx02 wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>legacystar9 wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>While you are fixing all these spells for coercer's and warlock's </p><p> PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD CHANGE STORMING TEMPEST TO NOT USE FREEHAND !!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p><p> we've only had to deal with this BS since AA's were put in the game.  we know you have the ability to make a spell imune to certain effects (i.e no catalyst on manaburn) so please take 5 minutes and change this thanx.</p></blockquote><p>QFE</p><p>been like this for over 2 years, all of the benefits have been removed from the spells bugs aka proc chance on every tick, but for some reason you left it eating Freehand.</p></blockquote>No he can't. Since none of the Dev's actually play a sorcerer at any serious level and the game is now quite old they just don't understand the class period. They are more worried now about increasing illy/coercer DPS. Imagine that, increasing DPS of true support classes and still ignoring age old problems of sorcerers and this after nerfing the bananas out of us to where we are tier 2 dps with no other raid skills to bring to the table! The sorcerer class is royally screwed for a good long time coming. If people thought rangers where broke and being ignored they haven't seen anything yet when it comes to what the sorcerers are goung to go through. Since they don't even play the class what hope do we have that they even can realize we are broke?

[Baynne]

i don't pvp... never interested me in EQ.  a lot of that has to do with the OPs complaint.  my issue is that it is the same in PvE too.  every time i log on and play my wizzy and duo with my gf who plays inquis, i feel awesome cuz i can outdamage her.  when i get into a full group with any melee class, tanks included, i get maybe 2 nukes off if i am lucky.  if i start casting early i get aggro, if i wait i miss the fight.  and of course the resist factor after casting fusion or ice nova.  it is really hard to fully say what i mean without sounding like im asking other classes to be nerfed, that isnt the intention of my reply.  instant nukes would really be nice tho.  i really hate having to go through a fight using only dots... if i wanted to do that i would have played a necro.  i rolled a wizzy to see big booms and kill mobs quickly... and have yet to do it post-50.  there needs to be one dev to play a different class.  pretty sure soe has more than 4 devs.  all classes have issues, all classes need to be looked at, and most classes need to be improved directly, not by lowering other classes' abilities to make us feel better.

[ChandraVeda]

<cite>Baynne wrote:</cite><blockquote>all classes have issues, all classes need to be looked at, and most classes need to be improved directly, not by lowering other classes' abilities to make us feel better.</blockquote>that's what bullies do!!! they put other people down to make themselves feel better - STOP BULLYING CLASS BALANCE, enhance classes, don't nerf others, pls?

[simpwrx02]

Shameless bump because this issue has been around too long.

[Obadiah]

Dude. You guys win. Here I thought it was embarrassing that Adrenaline has been broken since RoK's launch. But ... that's not even 6 months. This is STILL broken after what ... <b><span style="font-size: x-large;">26 months?</span></b>Amazing. Just amazing. <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/e78feac27fa924c4d0ad6cf5819f3554.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" width="15" height="15" />

[simpwrx02]

<p>Oh they fixed parts of it, like the first tick having a chance to double proc, each tick having a chance to proc. So the Devs looked into the spell a few times, as those 2 changes didnt happen at the same time, they just neglected to fix the main bug/issue that wizards had with the spell. </p><p>They took away any advantage the spell had in its most bugged form, but left the biggest deterent. I personally do love when the 3k hit uses freehand instead fo the 30k hit. freehand is a 22% base increase btw so instead of gettign 22% of 30k which is ~6,000  you get a 600 increase.  At least when it had a chance to proc 6 times and double proc on cast it made up for the huge chunk of damage lost when it ate freehand.</p><p>Oh and the other awesome aspect is to get the final tick of the spell you have to toggle the spell off between the 6th hit and when the spell ends which should be a 7th tick, if you dont you only get 6 ticks.</p>

[Jeeshman]

<cite>legacystar9 wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>While you are fixing all these spells for coercer's and warlock's </p><p> PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD CHANGE STORMING TEMPEST TO NOT USE FREEHAND !!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p></blockquote>ZOMG they're actually fixing it!!  It's in the <a href="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?topic_id=416561" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Test Update Notes</a> right now!!

[Awgar]

Wow they are fixing one thing. How about faster casting times on our nukes. In a fight I can't even get off any nukes only a few dots. My DPS is lower than a tank, a troub, an Ill and that's horrible. The healer is the only one that I out DPS, sad. Everything is dead by the time I get my nukes off. I can't cast them do to being to slow. So I cast the Dots to get some DPS.

[simpwrx02]

<p>Well Storming tempest no longer eats freehand which is great, however the final tick still only hits if you toggle the spell off before it ends.  Not sure if spell damage on this spell is still only a 1/3 gain from spell damage mod didnt check that last time in game.  However happy that this spell no longer eats freehand.   </p><p>Edit: spell damage looks correct on this spell.</p>

[SacDaddy420]

<cite>Awai@Venekor wrote:</cite><blockquote>Wow they are fixing one thing. How about faster casting times on our nukes. In a fight I can't even get off any nukes only a few dots. My DPS is lower than a tank, a troub, an Ill and that's horrible. The healer is the only one that I out DPS, sad. Everything is dead by the time I get my nukes off. I can't cast them do to being to slow. So I cast the Dots to get some DPS.</blockquote>yea uh......pretty much L2P  about that right there...srsly..if you are really doin that bad at -any- level you need to just reroll man.   You want faster cast time?  may I suggest chanter...

[simpwrx02]

<cite>Awai@Venekor wrote:</cite><blockquote>Wow they are fixing one thing. How about faster casting times on our nukes. In a fight I can't even get off any nukes only a few dots. My DPS is lower than a tank, a troub, an Ill and that's horrible. The healer is the only one that I out DPS, sad. Everything is dead by the time I get my nukes off. I can't cast them do to being to slow. So I cast the Dots to get some DPS.</blockquote>Fact ice spears+BoM= descent damage and take about 3 seconds total time to cast.... ice spears then bolt of ice take about 4 seconds to cast.  I haven't seen to may fights that are under 4 seconds.  DOnt wait till the mob is at 70% to start attacking .... move with your group when tank pulls start casting you have a huge freaking range.  You shoudl have Ice spears on the mob before scouts are even in position to backstab, if not put down teh bong and pay more that 5% attention.  Precast glcacial shield on tank... good lord  as stated before L2P serously, I can see beign outparse by dps scouts, but a troub/illy seriously...