Bring back Lightning Storm!

Dr.Jones

Dr.Jones

Banned

Join Date: Jul 2008

i wouldn't mind seeing Weapon of Mastery again...... that would be awesome... it would have to be changed to spawning power.

komma

komma

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2007

None

N/

/signed...aoe air skill ftw

Crom The Pale

Crom The Pale

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Nov 2006

Ageis Ascending

W/

Dissapear sounds like a skill that Gwen uses in the BMP......could be mistaken.....?

gameshoes3003

gameshoes3003

Forge Runner

Join Date: Feb 2006

Those beat mastery skills are absolutely ridiculous....
Anyway, there are a few skills in there that are in the game right now with a different name, or at least highly related.
But some of those things, if changed up a little, I'd like them in the game.

Elf Merchant

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Oct 2007

Knights Castle

W/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by Koudelka

Lightning Storm

Energy Cost: 25
Casting Time: 3 seconds
Recharge: 0 seconds

Spell. You invoke a Lightning Storm at target foe's location. Each second for next 10 seconds, one foe in the area is interrupted and stuck for 14...61...73 lightning damage.

Soooooo Overpowered. Make it an Elite at the very least. why? well, an elite such as Elemental Attunement will allow you to spam this skill, especially without the recharge!, and the fact that it lasts for 10 seconds... meaning it can be stacked very easily as well as interupting?

I think this in its current configuration is too overpowered, maybe if they balance this first.

Bulletdodger

Bulletdodger

Academy Page

Join Date: May 2008

Ex Yugoslavia [ExYu]

R/

/not signed
The skill is overpowered even if the skill gets a little bit balanced it still will have the random factor , which I don't like , plus ele's already have enough AoE skills.

Abedeus

Abedeus

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Jan 2007

Niflheim

R/

Quote:
random factor ,
So I herd game is random.

N1ghtstalker

N1ghtstalker

Forge Runner

Join Date: Dec 2007

E/

/signed
me likes and wants

payne

payne

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Apr 2007

england (currently located on the south coast)

R/

/signed also

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Spontaneous_Combustion
<<<most uber thing I've ever seen lol bring it back instead :P

Da Rk Bl Ad E

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Mar 2008

Belfast - Northern Ireland

D/W

"Spontaneous Combustion Hex Spell. Target catches on fire and explodes. "


zomg...leet

Steps_Descending

Steps_Descending

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Apr 2007

IN my pocket plane. Obviously!

Little Tom's Pocket Plane [THom]

Me/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by Bulletdodger
have the random factor , which I don't like ,
That's sad, have you checked the skill Confusion? I SERIOUSLY what that skill mecanic, one way or another! Imagine on that 2x dmg warrior boss opening the fight with his elite attack?

Quote:
Originally Posted by Elf Merchant
Soooooo Overpowered.

EDIT : "" infinite energy comment""

I think this in its current configuration is too overpowered, maybe if they balance this first.
Well with the current e-managment skills they would need to add a recharge (for the PvP version at least).

But ASSUMING it was balanced (which was never out of question), that would be an interesting spike/aoe twist for Air magic. Plus the random factor!!

/signed

EDIT : fixed my quotes

Steps_Descending

Steps_Descending

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Apr 2007

IN my pocket plane. Obviously!

Little Tom's Pocket Plane [THom]

Me/Mo

Has anyone checked Miror of delusion?
(http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Mirror_of_Delusions)

I wonder why they did not had it. Mesmers have been crying for that skill since SSpirit was first unlocked (ok ok maybe just since faction release).

I mean, that is exactly the kind of skill they should have put instead of Ether Nightmare.

Mountain Hurdler

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Jul 2008

Mountain Hurdlers

E/Me

DUDE this is AWESOME. /signed

Murmel

Murmel

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Mar 2008

Land of Confusion

[swea]

W/

Damn! that would be sweet

/signed of course

weretoad

weretoad

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Mar 2007

league of the elite

Me/

/notsigned
i went through the list of skills twice and only found 4 that could be reasonable to put in. either it's crappy, does fit in the current game, or is insanely overpowered, like trying to balance it would either kill the skill or have to the concept of the skill

N1ghtstalker

N1ghtstalker

Forge Runner

Join Date: Dec 2007

E/

Quote:
Originally Posted by payne
/signed also

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Spontaneous_Combustion
<<<most uber thing I've ever seen lol bring it back instead :P
bring back evil Gwen mwuaha xD

Don Doggy

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Oct 2006

W/

/signed
More skills ftw.

Koudelka

Koudelka

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2007

England

The Khaotic Empire (TKE)

Me/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by weretoad
/notsigned
i went through the list of skills twice and only found 4 that could be reasonable to put in. either it's crappy, does fit in the current game, or is insanely overpowered, like trying to balance it would either kill the skill or have to the concept of the skill
Which four are you contemplating? I can see quite a few skills being put in, with the exception of those made redundant by other skills.

defect

defect

Academy Page

Join Date: Oct 2007

South Africa

[MYST]

W/

/signed

Some of those skills would need to be tweaked for balance but hell yeah I want!

I Is Special

I Is Special

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Nov 2006

NJ

To Gain Extra Mobility We Play [NUDE]

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Implement

Spontaneous Combustion-Hex Spell. Target catches on fire and explodes

please please please

ShadowsRequiem

ShadowsRequiem

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Oct 2005

Inde is Smoking [Hawt] *ToA*

W/E

Spontaneous Combustion Hex Spell. Target catches on fire and explodes.

I lol'd

Kaida the Heartless

Kaida the Heartless

Desert Nomad

Join Date: May 2006

N/

Quote:
Originally Posted by ShadowsRequiem
Spontaneous Combustion Hex Spell. Target catches on fire and explodes.

I lol'd
Same. Rofl.

I'll take mirror of Delusions as my choice spell to be brought back.

Mirror of Delusions:
Hex Spell. If target foe suffers from a Hex in the next 10 seconds, all nearby foes suffer from that same Hex. With Illusion Magic 4 or less, this spell has a 50% chance to fail.

Darkchyld

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jan 2008

More skills would be a welcome addition to the game in my book. Plus, I've been wanting more aoe air magic spells for a long time now. You would think the air magic category would have it's fair share of aoe spells seeing as though it's called "air".

I'd also like to see more wind spells as well.

Mr Emu

Mr Emu

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Apr 2006

W/A

Are you crazy? Mirror would be the most OP of any of them. Mark of Pain anyone? SS maybe? How about wandering eye for instant aoe spike? It would be ridiculous.

Nessar

Nessar

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2008

West Siiiiiiiiiiiiiide

Gwen Has A Thing For [Pyre]

Some of these skills are so lulzy

/signed for bringing back lightening storm and some of the other skills

bhavv

bhavv

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Sep 2006

That lightning storm looked imba untill I realised it only hits one foe per second, then you realise it is actually rather crap.

Kaida the Heartless

Kaida the Heartless

Desert Nomad

Join Date: May 2006

N/

Thats why I want mirror brought into the game. :]

roshanabey2

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2007

[lion]

N/Mo

who cares about lightning storm, bring back dissapear (mesmer skill that makes you dissapear for 10secs) that would be awesome!!

t h i n e eyes b l e e d

t h i n e eyes b l e e d

Academy Page

Join Date: Jun 2007

Finland, Vantaa

Sasquatch Squad [LAME]

Rt/

I'd like to see those traps on assa and mirror of delusions on a mesmer
The BM skills were rather weird IMO
/Signed for PvE only and profession/attribute related

TheGuildWarsPenguin

TheGuildWarsPenguin

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2005

Los Angeles, California

Picnic Pioneers

E/

Quote:
Originally Posted by t h i n e eyes b l e e d
I'd like to see those traps on assa and mirror of delusions on a mesmer
The BM skills were rather weird IMO
/Signed for PvE only and profession/attribute related
Yeah, those assassin traps look epic.

Kaida the Heartless

Kaida the Heartless

Desert Nomad

Join Date: May 2006

N/

...considering that Twisting Trap blows apart every other trap but 1.

Dograzor

Dograzor

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jan 2006

The Netherlands

The Circle of Life (AURA)

E/

They could bring mirror back as elite with high ene usage/or recharge to prevent people abusing the skill

Sage Tylos

Academy Page

Join Date: Jul 2008

<none>

E/

Lightning Storm sounds cool but it would also be rather spammable with a 0 second recharge. The 25 energy cost can be virtually removed by combining [elemental attunement] and [air attunement]. The first will give you 12 energy back upon completion of the cast and the second will give you 8, so the spell would have a net cost of only 5 energy.

Ele's have 4 pips of energy regen, so that's 2 energy per second. If the spell has a 3 second cast, you've already regenerated 6 energy by the time the cast is completed. That in combination with double attunement means you've not lost any energy (assuming you don't get interupted or enchant stripped or anything.)

With no skill recharge time you could just keep casting that one spell over and over to have 3 lightning storms active at a time for an indefinite period.

Oh and let's not forget that since it's a 25 energy spell, [aura of restoration] and [glyph of restoration] would cause you to self heal so much that the monk would rarely have to tend to you.

Don't get me wrong, I play ele alot and I think it's a cool spell. I'm just saying that it might be too spammable if it has no recharge time.

/sign if a reasonable recharge time were added to it.

Some of those other skills look cool too. Wow @ the number of proph beast mastery skills that were excluded.

Edit: On the other hand, since it seems a tad underpowered alone, maybe it was ment to be used the way I just described?

upier

upier

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Mar 2006

Done.

[JUNK]

Sweet baby Jesus - SOOOOOOO /signed!

Just because Air needs MORE flashy animations!

Kaida the Heartless

Kaida the Heartless

Desert Nomad

Join Date: May 2006

N/

Mirror would have to be the only skill on your bar for it to be balanced. I can think of a few skills that would insta wipe an entire HM Mob when used in conjunction with it (namely from the illusion line).

Honestly, it would have to be: Next hex only, Elite, Fail @ <9 Illu.

Steps_Descending

Steps_Descending

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Apr 2007

IN my pocket plane. Obviously!

Little Tom's Pocket Plane [THom]

Me/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by Kaida the Heartless
Mirror would have to be the only skill on your bar for it to be balanced. I can think of a few skills that would insta wipe an entire HM Mob when used in conjunction with it (namely from the illusion line).

Honestly, it would have to be: Next hex only, Elite, Fail @ <9 Illu.
Maybe only allow mesmer hex, at least that would stop SS and MoPain.

Maybe have the duration stack (50%-100% of original duration)? not sure that would work...
Know what? Actualy Confusion might be more fun...

About LStorm, how about make it last 5 sec and PvE-only, the no-cooldown wouldn't really matter and with 2 sec casting time you could maintain 2 at a time. Becomes pretty weak actually, maybe either PvE-only or 5 sec nerf.

EDIT : just noticed the Mirror triger on every hexes instead of THE NEXT hex...