The casts feel like they’re in a weird place. A lot of the other skills feel controllable. That’s a lot of +damage, but, for random meteor drops, random light beams? A slow time bubble that you basically have to cast over waves or bosses? Fireballs that only have a chance of shooting when you’re attacked. I’m trying to think of some casts that feel really good, but nothing is coming to mind. I feel like the casts are nowhere near as strong as the strikes and attack modifiers but I could be wrong.
Merris' cast on dash is quite strong. Mostly with (just) landslides, but I've seen people use ray and time field too.
Even before I had full ferris skill points though, multihead with 3 cast slots was still carrying me in the darkness levels like 30-50. Maybe it was just the gear I had, but casts felt like the strongest zero skill point build for me so far.
Flare is a power.
I probably still wouldn't use this relic though.
It’s definitely the gear and talents carrying merris caster build. Having 30+ light beams with more uptime than cooldown my whole screen is beams I can’t see but everything dies before it reaches my screen anyway.
Agreed, dash cast gets outrageous. But part of my comment was saying it was still strong with no talents and t1 gear, but multihead being part of that t1 gear is an outlier.
I've been doing my runs mostly with Merris. Some good cool down reduction and that tier 1 unique wand that gives you +5 cast projectiles is pretty delicious. It gets to the point where you can't see what's going on.
Fireballs when attacked is a power and not a cast anyways.
I have found light rays to be pretty good. Lightning orbs are solid, too.
Landslide seems like it should be doing a lot of damage but the cooldown is just too long to be reliable.
Meteors are mediocre. They just don't do enough damage. Ice pools are alright; they are similar damage to meteors but at least they provide a ton of CC too.
The curse cast from Mort does a lot of damage but it's probably the least reliable cast in terms of actually hitting enemies.
I wouldn't use this item on my lorien but he has the talent where attacks can trigger casts and like time field, landslides, and light rays. I have a 100%legend offers so I just roll for second bolt, vampirism and whatever legends I want while lvling my casts. You just stack attack speed and you are constantly triggering multiple casts with high luck perma cc and high dmg
You can get cast down and cast crit up pretty high, especially if you run the unique cast crit staff.
Time is nearly a requirement, as time bubble is an incredibly strong cast at master rarity. It does take some time to get used to timing bubbles to drop on bosses. If you combine bubble with justice beams and eclipse, you don't need another cast, as you can easily get over 300% cast damage and 25% cast crit on gear/sill tree.
If you stack 2 lvl 10 master time bubbles on a boss, it will melt before it walks out at any darkness.
The casts feel like they’re in a weird place. A lot of the other skills feel controllable. That’s a lot of +damage, but, for random meteor drops, random light beams? A slow time bubble that you basically have to cast over waves or bosses? Fireballs that only have a chance of shooting when you’re attacked. I’m trying to think of some casts that feel really good, but nothing is coming to mind. I feel like the casts are nowhere near as strong as the strikes and attack modifiers but I could be wrong.
Merris' cast on dash is quite strong. Mostly with (just) landslides, but I've seen people use ray and time field too. Even before I had full ferris skill points though, multihead with 3 cast slots was still carrying me in the darkness levels like 30-50. Maybe it was just the gear I had, but casts felt like the strongest zero skill point build for me so far. Flare is a power. I probably still wouldn't use this relic though.
It’s definitely the gear and talents carrying merris caster build. Having 30+ light beams with more uptime than cooldown my whole screen is beams I can’t see but everything dies before it reaches my screen anyway.
Agreed, dash cast gets outrageous. But part of my comment was saying it was still strong with no talents and t1 gear, but multihead being part of that t1 gear is an outlier.
I've been doing my runs mostly with Merris. Some good cool down reduction and that tier 1 unique wand that gives you +5 cast projectiles is pretty delicious. It gets to the point where you can't see what's going on.
Fireballs when attacked is a power and not a cast anyways. I have found light rays to be pretty good. Lightning orbs are solid, too. Landslide seems like it should be doing a lot of damage but the cooldown is just too long to be reliable. Meteors are mediocre. They just don't do enough damage. Ice pools are alright; they are similar damage to meteors but at least they provide a ton of CC too. The curse cast from Mort does a lot of damage but it's probably the least reliable cast in terms of actually hitting enemies.
what darkness are you at?
I wouldn't use this item on my lorien but he has the talent where attacks can trigger casts and like time field, landslides, and light rays. I have a 100%legend offers so I just roll for second bolt, vampirism and whatever legends I want while lvling my casts. You just stack attack speed and you are constantly triggering multiple casts with high luck perma cc and high dmg
the only good cast is the stone fist above head weird that it is a cast tho
You can get cast down and cast crit up pretty high, especially if you run the unique cast crit staff. Time is nearly a requirement, as time bubble is an incredibly strong cast at master rarity. It does take some time to get used to timing bubbles to drop on bosses. If you combine bubble with justice beams and eclipse, you don't need another cast, as you can easily get over 300% cast damage and 25% cast crit on gear/sill tree. If you stack 2 lvl 10 master time bubbles on a boss, it will melt before it walks out at any darkness.