Meteor Shower

I just cast my first Meteor Shower and it was tremendously satisfying

Love it, amazing job on the visual effects!

 

@Zader Howmuch time did you need to learn it? Whats your attunement? Howmuch dmg does it do (in the skill description) ? How are the damage distributed (just every meteor is doing that dmg or is it just the total dmg dealt that is mentioned on the tooltip) ?

@Chris I spent 2 hrs yesterday casting night vision and fireflies to try to reach the meteor shower spell and im still far from it .... i had more than 11 mil pooled xp. Is it normal that i need so much time just to reach lvl 40 in Something ? Do you think players like that kind of time sink?

 

imo I think gains are to fast 0-60 also I belive ur total pool only matters when you're 80+ in skill I'm not sure about it tho..
and with that pool why not just leave as many as you can unlocked in the same slot and spam it until ur 40? that wouldn't even be close to 2 hours

 

it´s beautifull but tha damage is very low, i just watched the meteors falling and my enemy still alive vith 30 hp for 10 seconds...

 

damage is very lack luster, and the monster can be standing in it while not taking damage

 

My Attunement is low, in the 40s and it does 16-45+16ish dmg at skill 85. I find that the buff stays on me the entire time, showing that I have a MS active (you can only have 1 going at a time, additional casts overwrite the first MS)

..but some mobs resist the affects and it never applies to them, or applies rarely. Cultist champs are a mob that can stand in the MS awhile and rarely get hit by mine.

I agree it's beautiful and the radius increase as you level up is nice too.

 

unfortunately it has no sound - doesnt damage and duration increase if you stack?
i thought i does, but need to proof it again.
leveling fireflies to 40 was very slow for me, but i made it in the end.

i do not understand the damage tooltip either.
I think it can do x - y in total and the second row is what each meteor can do to a single target?
its confusing.

Durarion increases , and with it DoT . the single hit from a meteor doesnt increase that much, but because it lasts longer it does more dot.
I am still testing and using it with icefield atm - would be a nice combo skill ^^

@Chris ???

 

i made a video.. almost 0 damage... no consistent DOT ..

 

Agree, the dot is not constant like rof or immolation

 

So I tryed also a little bit with that new skill.
I love it , but it need to hit the mob more often to make more damage at all.
Damage stacks, tried it and the ticks get a little bit higher if you cast a stacked version, but still to low damage.
But because i choosed Moon from day one but haven't leveled the skills that much, most stick between 40-50 i will now raise atunement and MS (actually 72) to 80 to check if it works better then.
I also hope they improve the skill a bit after the feedback.
Maybe more ticks /mob.
Using it with fireflies and get a crit does some noticeable damage to a mob, but that's to rare.

 

But the Firefly Crit Bonus only works with Melee?
I wish it would be different!

 

Right! It needs some spell crit in there too!

 

Where is that from?
If thats true, i have wasted time and xp in the Moon tree and i will let the whole tree go
Not for me anymore, i was thinking it does a debuff to get a crit on that mob no matter if melee or magic.
For what reason it should build on each other if the Chance to crit with a Meteor hit werent existent.
And why should any magic not crit more often, but melee?
Please quote me a validation of that it's only critchance for melee.

 

I hovered over the spell and it textually said melee.

 

And ranged!

 

Yea, I tried it out in QA before it went on the live server.

The only thing I was dissatisfied with at the time is that the range appeared awfully short and had to get into the enemies faces to use it, and unlike AoE skills in the Fire tree, you didn't have anything in the Moon tree to extend its range. So, I suggested that the range increase at night while the moon is out...

And also that it would also be really cool if Meteor Shower was very sensitive to changes astrology. So, if you had a rare occurrence like a full planetary alignment, your radius could be 2x-3x as large, or your shower could be more saturated or do more damage. A connection between Meteor Shower and astrology would be fitting, and could grant the skill a lot of power in a few rare circumstances.

Does anyone know what "Lunar Damage" means, though? Does it just mean the damage is higher with the Moon out and can be resisted with resistance to Moon magic? Or anything more special?

 

I totally ignored that while reading

Still using MS, but hope for a slight improvement.

 

We are 100% sure these skills only works for melee?

Its like the "melee crit hit reduction" I'm still not sure if works with all physical dmg or just melee weapons. I asked to @Chris but I did not get any response yet.

 

I think Lunar Damage has it's own resistance, like fire or death magic.

 

well now that i use MS without fireflies before, i recognized sometimes a meteor does a good amount of damage to a mob.
I postet a wishlist request to make fireflies debuffed mobs more vulnerable aka crit reduction to MS, because MS correlates on FF, so if this Debuff is only for Melee hits, then it schould be atleast also debuff für MS hits.

eh understandable? sorry if i describe it weird