great balls of.. thunder ._.

Favu - Heavens Tear
Favu - Heavens Tear Posts: 138 Arc User
edited February 2010 in Cleric
now that I find myself with massive amounts of spirit and nothing to do with it, I took the time to go back and level up all of the crappy skills I never used during the game, one of them being thunderball..

what are opinions on this skill? what with the rampant TT runs because of the event, I've been in a lot and I just keep throwing it with debuffs so the boss is at least always taking some damage.. but then I started wondering if it's just a waste of time..

also, any opinions on which endgame cleric skill I should try to get first? o:
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  • Accel - Raging Tide
    Accel - Raging Tide Posts: 673 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Favu - Heavens Tear wrote: »
    also, any opinions on which endgame cleric skill I should try to get first? o:

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  • Bowlinbob - Lost City
    Bowlinbob - Lost City Posts: 3,446 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    im debating trying to get Demon Thunderball, the reduced time from 15 seconds of taking damage -> 12 seconds of taking damage, plus the added damage for it being level 11, might turn it into something useful. Since reduced time that effects DoT would effectivly increase the damage per DoT tick.

    the channel time may still not be worth it. Id probably use it on a BM/barb followed by a sleep to get their charm to tick while im stacking IHs/debuffing/shelling.
  • Favu - Heavens Tear
    Favu - Heavens Tear Posts: 138 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Bowlinbob - Lost City wrote: »
    the channel time may still not be worth it. Id probably use it on a BM/barb followed by a sleep to get their charm to tick while im stacking IHs/debuffing/shelling.

    I actually did use it once PKing a barb a week or two ago and it was nice, cause while I was readying up tempest or something the thunderball ticked their charm so I could nuke them. C:
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  • Astoru - Heavens Tear
    Astoru - Heavens Tear Posts: 822 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    It's not as useless as people would think. The DoT is nothing special, but the initial damage that the spell causes is decent. It's also 1 of only 3 spammable elemental spells that a cleric has in their arsenal.
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  • Frijolero - Sanctuary
    Frijolero - Sanctuary Posts: 820 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Favu - Heavens Tear wrote: »
    I actually did use it once PKing a barb a week or two ago and it was nice, cause while I was readying up tempest or something the thunderball ticked their charm so I could nuke them. C:

    I've been used it frequently on TW against catapullers along with debuffs to break thru their charms and that way my guildies can kill him easier. It has worked fine so far.

    Also when I do support for tank on TW:
    1.- Heal tank
    2.- debuff and BoL enemy
    3.- ???
    4.- profit!.b:victory
    Astoru - Heavens Tear wrote: »
    It's not as useless as people would think. The DoT is nothing special, but the initial damage that the spell causes is decent. It's also 1 of only 3 spammable elemental spells that a cleric has in their arsenal.

    Somtimes I use BoL as a finisher when I know the initial blast will kill the enemy. At least on early lvls, Ball of Lightning consumes less MP than Whirlwind.
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  • Raviste - Heavens Tear
    Raviste - Heavens Tear Posts: 288 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Hi Favu darling. <3

    Speaking on a purely PvE perspective, Thunderball isn't that bad at all. It's a part of my debuff macro that I like to throw out when I heal in TTs and such: Elemental Seal, Dimensional Seal, Thunderball. It does a nice chunk of damage while you're busy healing.
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  • Zanryu - Dreamweaver
    Zanryu - Dreamweaver Posts: 7,261 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Oh it's an attack skill? I thought it was just used to give other players hats in PvP and duels! Huh... I guess that's why they get mad at me when I give them my hat, thanks for letting me know! :)

    Sorry if I seem like a noob, I oracled from level 33 to 82 then Hyper xp'd my way to 89b:surrender
  • FatherTed - Dreamweaver
    FatherTed - Dreamweaver Posts: 3,723 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Raviste - Heavens Tear wrote: »
    Speaking on a purely PvE perspective, Thunderball isn't that bad at all. It's a part of my debuff macro that I like to throw out when I heal in TTs and such: Elemental Seal, Dimensional Seal, Thunderball. It does a nice chunk of damage while you're busy healing.

    Same here - can't speak for PvP/PKing, but I've found several cases where it's useful in PvE.
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  • Favu - Heavens Tear
    Favu - Heavens Tear Posts: 138 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Raviste - Heavens Tear wrote: »
    Hi Favu darling. <3

    Speaking on a purely PvE perspective, Thunderball isn't that bad at all. It's a part of my debuff macro that I like to throw out when I heal in TTs and such: Elemental Seal, Dimensional Seal, Thunderball. It does a nice chunk of damage while you're busy healing.

    Raviiii b:cute I've been doing the same thing-- seals and then thunderball. I always wonder if the other people in my squad are like, "Oh god.. what is the dumbass cleric doing.." but that makes me feel better. :3
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  • Ewings - Heavens Tear
    Ewings - Heavens Tear Posts: 117 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Thnderball is decent but its output in pvp is kinda bad due to extremely long channeling and comparatively lower dps output, compare it to cyclone and ull see my point, you can fire cyclone twice in the same time with much higher dmg. One decent use you can put thunderball to is on retracting nixes where they turn invincible, that way they get killed even when veno retracts em.
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  • Favu - Heavens Tear
    Favu - Heavens Tear Posts: 138 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Ewings - Heavens Tear wrote: »
    Thnderball is decent but its output in pvp is kinda bad due to extremely long channeling and comparatively lower dps output, compare it to cyclone and ull see my point, you can fire cyclone twice in the same time with much higher dmg. One decent use you can put thunderball to is on retracting nixes where they turn invincible, that way they get killed even when veno retracts em.

    That's interesting; I hadn't thought of that. I was also thinking it might be practical to use in TW when the cleric's DDing but not actually being attacked.. ie to stack additional DoT on a barb or BM to hopefully take them down. :p

    But you have a point, Ewings, that it is pretty ridiculously slow compared to cyclone.
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