Intensity

Chael

Chael

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Join Date: Sep 2007

Sorry if this has been asked before, but does the Sunspear skill "Intensity" effect Conjure spells?

YornStar

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: May 2006

Portugal

Bad Net Fubar [bad]

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Yes it does,

MBP

MBP

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Apr 2007

Arizona

Clanless Fraggers

R/Mo

still not worth it though

Sir Pandra Pierva

Sir Pandra Pierva

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Join Date: Apr 2007

Sardelec yelling at Tenshi

Angels Of Strife

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It's like ele lord its ele fail in my opinion

MBP

MBP

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Join Date: Apr 2007

Arizona

Clanless Fraggers

R/Mo

it was good until they insta-nerfed it.

Sir Pandra Pierva

Sir Pandra Pierva

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Join Date: Apr 2007

Sardelec yelling at Tenshi

Angels Of Strife

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kinda like ele lord

Yichi

Yichi

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Dark Alley [dR]

1. WTF is ele lord?
2. This skill used to be good for about the first day and a half they released, then they turned it to shit.

smrandom

Academy Page

Join Date: Feb 2007

Kings Beyond The Wall [KING]

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Quote:
Originally Posted by MistressYichi
1. WTF is ele lord? It's a flaming bag of fail.

Cebe

Cebe

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Join Date: Jul 2006

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The Cult of Scaro [WHO]

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Intensity is as worth using as "Incoming!" is at 12 Command in PvE.

Quote:
Originally Posted by MistressYichi
1. WTF is ele lord? [wiki]Elemental Lord[/wiki] - a "meh"-worthy Luxon/Kurzick PvE Skill.

Yichi

Yichi

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Celestial Beaver
[wiki]Elemental Lord[/wiki] Yay, Glyph of Elemental Power in a spell form... just worse.


reason number 987409583247 why the lux / kurzik / NF PvE only skills suck outside of SY TNTF, and Seed of Life

Abonai Laguna

Abonai Laguna

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Join Date: Jun 2006

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Company Of Corpses [CoC]

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Celestial Beaver
Intensity is as worth using as "Incoming!" is at 12 Command in PvE.


[wiki]Elemental Lord[/wiki] - a "meh"-worthy Luxon/Kurzick PvE Skill. That one is okish...
But Intensity was hit with the nerf-stick :S

MasterSasori

MasterSasori

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Join Date: Dec 2007

USA

[Thay]

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Abonai Laguna
That one is okish...
But Intensity was hit with the nerf-stick :S Ele lord is suckage ftl

tenshi_strife

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Join Date: Jul 2006

in sardelac getting yelled at.

Angels of Strife[Aoc]

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yup in pve skills eles got beat to hell, we had good skills then anet thought that they hated eles to much to give them good skills and beat it with a nerk bat.

so yes it sucks

Sir Pandra Pierva

Sir Pandra Pierva

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Join Date: Apr 2007

Sardelec yelling at Tenshi

Angels Of Strife

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pretty much almost allk of the PVE skills got hit, at least any of them good ones
Cept for UB

ShadowbaneX

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jun 2006

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Quote:
Originally Posted by MistressYichi
Yay, Glyph of Elemental Power in a spell form... just worse.


reason number 987409583247 why the lux / kurzik / NF PvE only skills suck outside of SY TNTF, and Seed of Life I wouldn't say that. Seed of Life was hit pretty hard with the nerf bat as well.

Ensign

Ensign

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Join Date: Dec 2004

Berkeley, CA

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Quote:
Originally Posted by ShadowbaneX
I wouldn't say that. Seed of Life was hit pretty hard with the nerf bat as well. ...and it's still good.

ensoriki

ensoriki

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Join Date: Aug 2006

Canada bro.

A/D

Intensity isn't horrible
Should be better however.
a skill that does 130 now does 159.9 damage.
This isn't extremely Fantastic

If intensity went to 35% though =P

Sir Pandra Pierva

Sir Pandra Pierva

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Join Date: Apr 2007

Sardelec yelling at Tenshi

Angels Of Strife

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Leangth I think needs to be increased or amount of dmg it just isn't worth it at all to carry.

ensoriki

ensoriki

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Join Date: Aug 2006

Canada bro.

A/D

add an extra 10 seconds
increase max effect to 35% at maxed rank.

Problem solved =P

Sir Pandra Pierva

Sir Pandra Pierva

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Sardelec yelling at Tenshi

Angels Of Strife

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But would anet do that... I think not

tenshi_strife

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Join Date: Jul 2006

in sardelac getting yelled at.

Angels of Strife[Aoc]

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its a simple fix for both skill ele lord needs to go back up to +2 and intensity needs to last longer thats it really.

Limu Tolkki

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Dec 2006

Hate The [Cape]

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agree with tenshi. atm they are useless skills.

Destromath

Academy Page

Join Date: Nov 2007

Grenths Dark Templars [GDT]

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What I really don't get is that Intensity got nerfed hard, but Aura of Holy Might for Dervs wasn't even touched...

When you think about it, they both serve the same concept but AoHM is almost fully maintainable (1 second downtime with enchanting mod), gives roughly +50% damage at only rank 5, and counts as an enchantment for the many Derv skills relying on enchants. Meanwhile, Intensity lasts just short of 1/3 of the recharge (WITH an enchanting mod) and only gives +25% damage at rank 10.

I vote for either buffing Intensity or nerfing AoHM to make things more fair. After all, Dervs also have Eternal Aura which is extremely powerful as well...

Scary Raebbit

Scary Raebbit

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Join Date: Sep 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by Destromath
What I really don't get is that Intensity got nerfed hard, but Aura of Holy Might for Dervs wasn't even touched...

When you think about it, they both serve the same concept but AoHM is almost fully maintainable (1 second downtime with enchanting mod), gives roughly +50% damage at only rank 5, and counts as an enchantment for the many Derv skills relying on enchants. Meanwhile, Intensity lasts just short of 1/3 of the recharge (WITH an enchanting mod) and only gives +25% damage at rank 10.

I vote for either buffing Intensity or nerfing AoHM to make things more fair. After all, Dervs also have Eternal Aura which is extremely powerful as well... I guess AoHM is making lots of people flock to play Dervish in high end PvE right?

Kwan Xi

Kwan Xi

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Join Date: Aug 2007

Writhe in Pain

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Intensity would be more worth it if they either raised the time your enchanted, or shorten the recharge time.

Elemental Lord might be best used on a non Elementalist wishing to deal out higher damage? but then again Glyph of Elemental Power is easier to use. You could combine both and it would be like having a Sup Ele Rune on you temporarily, but yeah.... my Elementalist doesn't use it.

Kashrlyyk

Kashrlyyk

Jungle Guide

Join Date: May 2005

They could change Intensity into a hex: "The next X times that foe gets hit with elemental damage, the damage is doubled."

Or: "For x seconds your damaging/elemental spells deal additional damage equal to 50% of your max energy."

Luminarus

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Lol Thread Necromancy...

On Topic... who cares if ele pve skills suck, all they need is a coupla aoe spells and you're happy [for pve]... you dont need pve skill, coz you already have the greatest aoe dps (apart from ss, possibly)

Stormlord Alex

Stormlord Alex

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Luminarus
you dont need pve skill, coz you already have the greatest aoe dps (apart from ss, possibly) And Splinter Weapon
And Mark of Pain.
And Death Blossom.

BigDave

BigDave

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Join Date: Jul 2006

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The Sapphire Rose [TSR]

Intensity doesn't do anything that GoEP or Ebon Battle Standard of Honor don't do better. Even going nec 2nd proff and taking Weaken Armor would have more effect against most foes. And the battle standard/weaken armor helps the rest of your party aswell as yourself.

Short duration, average damage boost, better options for boosting damage available. Not worth taking.

EDIT: Yeah, didn't notice the date on this. Oh well, nevermind

Pyra Fade

Pyra Fade

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Join Date: Feb 2007

sync dancing at Droks

Elite Order of Grimm [EOG]

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intensity has its uses.
personaly, id never use it in everyday PvE, but back when i used to power level outside droks with Shadow Form, i found if u slap intensity on the front of ur flash farm chain (right before glyph of sac--meteor shower) then u can take ur NM 10 sec build to HM in 11 seconds. then again, the only use for that would be power leveling ppl from r1 survivor to r2/r3. which never took off for me. so yeah

/join "i hate ele PvE skills" club

Trylo

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jan 2006

[Here] | CKOD

E/R

its kinda fun with [skill]Assassin's Promise[/skill]

then again most things are.

Moral55

Moral55

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Join Date: Mar 2007

SNOW

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You might be able to combine it with Slivers Armor, since they last about the same time, and seem to recharge at around the same rate.

BaconSoda

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Join Date: Apr 2006

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Leo

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Well, considering that it was probably nerfed because of secondary ele possibilities (Feast of Corruption, Energy Surge, Cry of Pain, etc.), it would make sense to make the effect proportionate to the level of your energy storage...

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Join Date: Aug 2006

Order Of The Ghost Dragons [mist]

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what was the pre nerf state of intensity?

i currently use the skill on my shadow form tombs bar, to help boost my sliver to do 40 damage after armour on HM grasps/dryders/riders

BigDave

BigDave

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Join Date: Jul 2006

Manchester, UK

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If i remember rightly it used to last for 15 secs instead of 10, and it had a 30sec recharge instead of 45. It could basically be kept up for about 60% of the time where as now you're looking at 25%.

Something like that anyway.

Sage Sanctus

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Join Date: Apr 2008

England

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I must admit, all I have found useful with Intensity is using it on my A/E Raptor farmer =P

The Meth

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Join Date: Jan 2007

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It would be a pretty good skill if the competition for skill bar space on an ele wasn't so high. Most eles will need 1 or 2 energy management skills, 2 or 3 damage skills, another 2 or 3 utility skills and if possible a res signet. Not worth kicking out one of those for a mild damage increase.

Dr Dimento

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Join Date: Oct 2007

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PvP Allegiance Skills

Only one worth a damn is seed of life.

Yichi

Yichi

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Dr Dimento
PvP Allegiance Skills

Only one worth a damn is seed of life. Save Yourselves says hi.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Yichi
Save Yourselves says hi. Aura of holy might is an incredible skill, and Spear of Fury and Triple shot are both very, very good at higher levels.

For sunspear track everything but vampirism, intensity and never rampage alone is decent. Necrosis is kinda meh but the rest should be practically stapled to your bar if you run those professions