Spark

Lazurus - Lost City

Is the genie skill spark worth it for pvp? With a somewhat average dex of 70-90, i'm curious as to whether it'll out-damage an extreme poison combo, considering extreme poision lasts 2 to 3 times as long as spark.

Edit: just noticed spark coincides perfectly with essential sutra. So.. sutra > spark > DP > pyro > phoenix > BT would be the ideal combo?

Arenaceous - Lost City

Well... Undine + Spark + Random Fire Skill can really really hurt, especially arcane classes, since they have a lot of resistances to take away. Just so you get a feeling for the damage: I use a Nature Talker +10 and yesterday I used Undine + Spark (90 dex genie) and Will of The Phoenix on a full nirvana wizard and crit him for 14k. With a one second channel spell. Spark is the best single target amp there is for a wizard.

lizrau

What he said ^

Lazurus - Lost City

Arenaceous - Lost City wrote: »

Well... Undine + Spark + Random Fire Skill can really really hurt, especially arcane classes, since they have a lot of resistances to take away. Just so you get a feeling for the damage: I use a Nature Talker +10 and yesterday I used Undine + Spark (90 dex genie) and Will of The Phoenix on a full nirvana wizard and crit him for 14k. With a one second channel spell. Spark is the best single target amp there is for a wizard.

So if you were to estimate the % increase in damage from spark and undine compared to undine alone?

Adroit - Lost City

Genie spark is fantastic in pvp. It really depends on the target, but on an unbuffed arcane class,.the increase in damage could go up to double or more. To put that in perspective, that is about the same as the difference between normal and triple sparked hits (for me). I love it in sutra combo or even on BT (even though it only affects half the damage.. It increases the damage on our already hardest hitting skill). With low energy cost and relatively short cooldown.. I think it's a must have for a dex based genie for a wiz. I have a 90 dex genie and along with undine.. It will often lower a targets resists down to 2 digits.

Lazurus - Lost City

Oh wow, that's definitely a lot more than I had anticipated. Would you use spark against HA and LA as well? Or is their resistance low enough already that further debuffing wouldn't be as noticeable? Thanks for all the feedback btw

DaKillanator - Raging Tide

Adroit - Lost City wrote: »

It will often lower a targets resists down to 2 digits.

holy ****

Adroit - Lost City

Lazurus - Lost City wrote: »

Oh wow, that's definitely a lot more than I had anticipated. Would you use spark against HA and LA as well? Or is their resistance low enough already that further debuffing wouldn't be as noticeable? Thanks for all the feedback btw

Oh I use it against everything.. Its just that arcane suffers the most. When you think of arcane.. Its low hp high mres.. So you take that mres down to basically nothing and they really have nothing left. Ha will go down to almost no resists as well.. But they still at least have some hp to absorb a hit. buffed targets seem to always have some resists left, but spark will nearly always be the best single target amp we can use. I generally will kite a melee class for a min, try to taunt them into wasting their genie energy then undine fow suyra spark d.pyro pyro fortify wotp d.pyro pyro. works really good for me xD

MageFizban - Lost City

I friggin hate spark. I kill all the wizzies who use it on me.

Arenaceous - Lost City

Lazurus - Lost City wrote: »

So if you were to estimate the % increase in damage from spark and undine compared to undine alone?

As Adroit said, a 100% damage increase is not really unrealistic. Depending on target it can "only" be like 75% tho, but I would not hit more than ~3k uncrit on a full nv wizard with will of the nix usually, even if I undine. With spark the hit translated to 7k uncrit, so that's easily 100%. The only catch is the relatively short duration and the pretty small range. The range is the reason I usually use it together with Will of the nix.

Some solid numbers, test object was my girlfriends lvl 97 unbuffed psy (sry hun b:surrender):

Undebuffed: 7k fire res, 64% dmg reduction (against lvl 97 targets)
Undine: 4.4k fire res, 53% reduction
Undine + spark: 437, 10% reduction

Ofc it depends on target, you will usually only get a 2 digit resistance on HA/LA, but AA classes usually don't have that much hp to survive a hit after eating away their res.

Alex_Gantz - Dreamweaver

I just discovered that this genie skill exist... can anyone tell me how it works and at what lvl is available? Thks in advance for your help.. b:bye

Adroit - Lost City

Alex_Gantz - Dreamweaver wrote: »

I just discovered that this genie skill exist... can anyone tell me how it works and at what lvl is available? Thks in advance for your help.. b:bye

http://www.ecatomb.net/pwi/genieskill.php
you're welcome.

Evanera - Heavens Tear

Spark is an instant KO skill to most people with a 90+ Dex genie and a strong wiz. Friend of mine has a 106 dex genie with Spark b:shutup