fireball vs meteor

the two spells are very similar, i use fireball because the casting time and recharge is less, although meteor does knock down anyone it hits and costs 5 less energy...both deal the exact same damage...which do you use?

I've always used fireball cuz it's quicker.

I'm alergic to spells with gigantic casting times and recharge times. These are the useful (non-enchantment) spells under Fire Magic: Fireball, Flame Burst, Immolate, and Lava Font. There may be one or two others you could make a case for, if you're really desperate for a fifth or sixth fire magic spell on your skillbar, but hey, don't you have a secondary class or second element to play with? Certainly there's something better you can do with those slots than devote them to skills that take an eon to cast and forever to recharge. I mean, Meteor is pretty cool and all, but I'm not devoting a slot on my skill bar to something I can only cast twice a minute unless it has some long lasting effect.

I would say they are both good to cast rapidly.I happen to use Phoenix and Meteor sometimes fire ball,over all it depends on the battle, if it is a boss,if it is PvP,ect...They are both powerful spells

I use neither. Fireball is expensive and doesn't do a lot of damage, and neither does Meteor. Meteor Shower, though...

When I was still using Fire Magic, I just used Flare and said the heck with those two. Flare is so spammable, it makes up for its lack of power.

I just combine spells like Meteor Shower with Arcane Echo and then you bypass the recharge quite easily [although you might have an energy problem].

I use Flare, Meteor, Firestorm and Meteor Shower currently.

But then that is pve, for pvp I wouldn't.

Current tactic is to wait for the warrior to bunch up the critters and then I let rip, he's W/N so fires off suffering and other aoe to pull them in for me, works like a charm

Currently in the Southern Shiverpeaks, so fire is a good attack to use on the natives.

When I move out to the Fire Isle, I'm going to switch to water, then I guess Air for pvp.

Actually, i find the fire AoE quite good in tombs (don't play arena's), since there is a NPC you have to guard/attack and this makes AoE quite useable. It can also be used to control where the opposition is going, so gives you a bit more control over the battlefield than an air ele.

Meteor is a useful way to try and keep people in the AoE range, and is also great for killing that last fleeing monk in PvP...fireball is nowhere near my skillbar (unless my N/Me arcane thieves it).

When I was on fire (sorry, but I can't tell it better ) I used mostly:

- Fire Storm for AoE, casted to the first foe when calling targets as I use to do, so it was casted before the foe noticed we were there (I think its range is a *bit* more than the area where you are noticed by mobs). This was sometimes wasted by an allie rushing into the mob .

- Flare: spammable and costless, combined with Arcane Echo its great

- Lava Font: AoE, semi-spammable

Fireball was sometimes in my bar, only if I needed one more ranged spammable skill.

I know there are missing a lot of Fire spells, but I switched to air as soon as I got some decent air skills.

Don't know if it helps, but seeing the skill effects, I try to avoid any skill that causes Exhaustion, even when Meteor knocks. As always, it depends if you are PvE, PvP, 1 or 10 mobs at a time, etc. There's no way to say "Meteor is beter"

I usually cast Immulate on an enemy, then hit them with fireball to finish them off with a few hits. Or for tougher enemies, meteor shower or firestorm, then immulate while they are being pounded by raining fire, and then a couple casts of fireball. Works well for me.

Is Arcane Echo an Ele elite I missed on the list of Ele skills? I don't see it anywhere

Have to keep in mind that Lava Font/Inferno and the like are for enemies adjacent to YOUR location so hopefully no Ele's are getting in tight with high end mobs (unless of course they're already engaged by our friendly meatshields).

I prefer in PvE, Met Shower, Fireball, Phoenix, Firestorm, maybe Incendirary Bonds, Inferno/Lava Font, Mist Form or Ele Attunement. Fireball and Phoenix do splash dmg, and an Ele in PvE groups....AOE is what you're goal is primarily....even in the Ring of Fire areas. Hell with a Meteor Shower, Fireball & Phoenix combo I turn hordes of Flesh Golems to ashes rather quickly!!

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