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Burst, Flare, Flood, Freeze, Quake, Tornado

Is it me or are these spells completely usless?

Am I using them wrong?

Why can they be cast on friendly targets?

I am aware that there is a time limit once you cast and that you need to wait 30 seconds. I dunno about you lot but my group can normally down a mob in under 20 seconds. And when it comes to NM's I would rather keep all my MP for healing and not wasting 100 MP to cause minimal damage..

are they bugged? i dont know. but they seem pretty pointless to me

Don't the descriptions for them say that they make their respective direct damage spells more efficient? E.g. Flare would cause some DOT but is mainly used to potentiate Fire. Or am I not understanding it right?

Burst, Flare, Flood, Freeze Quake, Tornado

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Originally Posted by Evangela

Burst, Flare, Flood, Freeze Quake, Tornado

merge these words together... you'll see the secret behind them

FUUUUU-
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IJ1s9RVaOw...0/fuuuuuuu.png

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Originally Posted by Elaguila

Don't the descriptions for them say that they make their respective direct damage spells more efficient? E.g. Flare would cause some DOT but is mainly used to potentiate Fire. Or am I not understanding it right?

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You got it right. DOT is not the best you'll find but it helps.

They do not DOT. The way they work is you set a Position of where you want it to fire off, if you target yourself then it will fire off and hit anything around the spot you was at, if you target a mob it will go off where the mob was at the time you set it off.

They are most likely broken or require something else before hand to be worthwhile (Battle Regimen? Purge? Idk). The reason there is the 30 second icon is most likely so you're not stuck casting it for 30 seconds like in XI you was, although I think people would much prefer this. It also makes it so you cant do what people did say when leeching on pets, as the moment you fire it you claim but the damage hasnt been done so you still need to survive for 30 seconds on the mob, where as in XI you could cast it and the mob claims when you fire it off, or you'd 1shot the mob.

Its most likely not the spell itself that is broken, but the formula they use for all spells as Tier 1 and Tier 2 nukes are on par for damage.

Yeah they don't do damage over time or potentiate damage of other spells. They're just delayed direct damage. There's a lot of the game where we find that there was a method to the madness if we look hard enough. I just can't for the life of me see what they were trying to do with AM.