Firestorm

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Blackguard wrote:

I would like to see the base AoE radius greatly increased to remove Firestorm's single target superiority as well as give it a clear distinction as an AoE vs Fireball. The base AoE radius currently is small enough for enough of the 8 hits per cast to land on the same target to out single target damage Fireball.

I think another improvement to Firestorm would be to increase its rain duration, maintain the same fireball droprate, and give it a cooldown. The result would be a cast and forget AoE that frees the player to weave in other spells of their choice. This change would make witch gameplay more engaging and robust as the player would be encouraged to mix spells. It may even attract Templars and Dex/Int characters to include it in their repertoire.

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JJGuevara wrote:

Used this spell myself as a witch, but stopped playing the character because this spell just made everything too easy - even on hardcore. Seen other people basically just spam this, it's low mana cost and high dps make it very easy; even potentially game destroying in terms of a challenge.

Damage needs a little reducement, but area spread of the spell needs to be way larger.

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Blackguard wrote:

I would like to see the base AoE radius greatly increased to remove Firestorm's single target superiority as well as give it a clear distinction as an AoE vs Fireball. The base AoE radius currently is small enough for enough of the 8 hits per cast to land on the same target to out single target damage Fireball.

I think another improvement to Firestorm would be to increase its rain duration, maintain the same fireball droprate, and give it a cooldown. The result would be a cast and forget AoE that frees the player to weave in other spells of their choice. This change would make witch gameplay more engaging and robust as the player would be encouraged to mix spells. It may even attract Templars and Dex/Int characters to include it in their repertoire.

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Metronomy wrote:

Does this gem get affected by 'projectile speed' increases? Not the rate at which they fire, but the speed they come down at?

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wxyjac wrote:

Does each fireball count separately as a fire ball?

Like, can the fire ball crit on some and not crit on some? Or is it determined at cast?


Also, if I use elemental weakness with firestorm, does each fire ball have an additional 10% chance to cause burning? Or does that 10% additional chance only get rolled once on first hit?

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wxyjac wrote:

Does each fireball count separately as a fire ball?

Like, can the fire ball crit on some and not crit on some? Or is it determined at cast?


Also, if I use elemental weakness with firestorm, does each fire ball have an additional 10% chance to cause burning? Or does that 10% additional chance only get rolled once on first hit?