Flameblast

There's no point to using flameblast right now. I've tried everything, making it faster, giving it more damage through supports, it's never worth it. It's not a skill you can or should build around, and it's not good by itself as a baseline. The time you spend charging it up is time you could be doing other more meaningful things, and to make matters worse you are very vulnerable to stuns while you're charging up.

The damage needs to be increased by at least x3, or remove the cooldown and keep it as is imo. Right now there's really no point in playing with this.

The spell is hot garbage. Changes like this make me wonder if the devs even play their own game.

- The downtime is too long

- You are completely vulnerable while channeling

- If a butterfly flaps its wings on the other side of the world the ability is interrupted. The most trivial of stuns resets it and kicks off the timer.


It's literally the worst spell in the game right now. I know that Mathil is trying to make it work but meh -- it sucks. Chronomancer can reset it but meh -- it still sucks.


Suggestions --

1) Reduce the downtimer. If you really think the spell is that powerful then lower its damage but at least make it usable.

2) Reduce the channel time. Let us fire this thing off quickly.

3) Make us immune to stun / immobile while channeling the ability. If you're going to keep it as is then at least let us get the darn spell off.

I've been trying to make Flameblast work, but it just doesn't. The damage is not high enough. 15-second cooldown is just... scaling down the damage from 200% to 75 was a huge nerf already, why give it a 15-second cooldown?

The only reason people would play with it is to have fun, because the explosion effect is too beautiful.

I wish the cooldown were removed from Flameblast, so that I could have fun playing with it again.

FFS 15 seconds? WTH

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Thornikus#8743 wrote:

The only reason people would play with it is to have fun, because

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the explosion effect

is too beautiful.

That more or less describes the entire game right now :D

I feel sorry for art developers who worked hard for several years making the game so beautiful and all these sound effects, vfx and environments, when some people and all these top streamers are playing zoom-zoom with everything exploding 3 screens away at the speed of sound with some boop-boop-boop music background.

Flame blast is in its current state only useful for a specific kind of Chronomancer. Get time stop and cooldown reductions. When you stop the time, you can cast flame blast and clear everyone you've stopped. And that's basically just it. Even then, something like Comet with the Echo Lineage gem is probably going to be more effective unless you really are surrounded by zillions of enemies, all time frozen.

The cooldown in addition to the casting time is just too much.

It used to have potential as a defensive spell, but they removed the gems that restore shield/knock everyone back when you are interrupted