What skills to focus on?

LizZandra - Morai

hello, im a 51 Storm.b and i have got alot of skills already, but i really dont know wat skills to focus most on beside Sonic boom n downfall.

soo what skills works best for u ppl?

and good combo's u could share with us?

michikobaby

Well, here is my list in no particular order besides the color coding (Red > Green)

Sonic Boom
Downburst
Blood of the Nightshade - Defensive Passive
Lunar Guidance - Squad Def Buff
Cloudburst - Magic Debuff
Ice Bullet - Single Stun
Supercell - Strongest AOE with multiple skill add-ons
Frigid Thunder - AOE / Freeze / Slow / Interupt
Deafening Thunder - AOE / Debuff
Thunder Strike - AOE
Reaper Form - Tank / DD mode
Avatar of the Storm
Lunar Shadow

Metal Mastery
Water Mastery
Lunar Surge - Knockback AOE
Lunar Blessing - Self Heal
Electrostatic Discharge - Kiting skill
Searing Moonlight - Continuous single attack / Debuff
Lunar Swiftness - Speed Skill
Cumulonimbus
Snowstorm
Moonblade

Tidal Force - Tunnel AOE
Monsoon - Tunnel AOE
Thundersnow - DoT
Call Lightning

Devouring Darkness - Kiting skill
Churning Vortex - Does no damage. I use Avatar of the Storm instead.
Climate Shift - Leveling only changes the cooldown...until sage/demon

There are some nice skills in the yellow/green sections, but I would not max them before the skills above

demansfairy

michikobaby wrote: »

Well, here is my list in no particular order besides the color coding (Red > Green)




Lunar Shadow


There are some nice skills in the yellow/green sections, but I would not max them before the skills above

Why is this skill so low on the list? It only has 1 level and the clone effectivly doubles you dps on normal mobs and quadruples it on ? mark mobs, it's a skill I would get asap when you hit 79.

Tsukishi - Dreamweaver

Agreed, Lunar Shadow is OP as hell. You could even pull with it, but the clone is so op it doesn't die like how a mystic pulls with their pet.

I maxed out all the mobile casting skills first since its teh crux of this class. But also very important to max out and maybe even before most of the mobile cast skills, is lunar guidance (your buff), Reaper form, elctrostatic discharge.

Personally i also leveled asap Devouring Darkness because you get cooldown reduction from leveling it and at max level its half the cd of electrostatic.
Also note that electrostatic is for kiting and devouring darkness (imo) is for things you can't kite (still good while kiting though..)



AOE combo I find useful is Frigid thunder (slow/freeze first) > Thunderstrike (debuffed) > Lunar surge (they will be getting close to you at that point) > deafening thunder ... and probably at that point thunderstrike debuff will proc and they die from it, if not, repeat!
Remeber to maximize effects with proper balls. Supercell is also good after lunar surge because you will have some breathing room for its casting time.


Use churning vortex and avatar of the storm in unison. I forgot what leveling churning vortex gets you, possibly cooldown reduction? Anyway you dont need to focus on leveling it right away for it to be useful. Also note lunar surge can knock stragglers back towards churning vortex.

Single target combos are pretty simple like downburst spam+ ice bullet vs fire mobs and sonic boom+cloudburst vs wood. You can mix in Moonblade or thundersnow in either of those since they do both types of damage and wont affect your balls.

Of course thundersnow is meant to be used as a combo with call lightning. You get the most damage if you wait at most 13 seconds to reapply the debuff each time then pop the last fifth one right away with Call lightning. but this is only really needed on extended fights like bosses or elite mobs.

Sylvae - Sanctuary

For solo grinding/questing, you just need:

Downburst, Ice Bullet (max priority)
For water mobs Sonic Boom, Cloudburst
Reaper form (max each time)
Lunar Guidance
Lunar Shadow

Lunar Guidance is mostly for group, or if you're actively there while playing. If you auto for a while, it's going to drop.

Those are the only skills you need for regular grinding and such. For AoE you really need just two main skills for most if you can gather them up well:

Avatar of the Storm, Lunar Blessing. HP gather em up, hit Reaper form, Storm one next to you, Lunar for invulnerability, drop out and finish off. This is bare minimum, and really all you need for AoE if on a budget. Next would be Thunder Strike, then Frigid Thunder.

Everything else is just there to flesh out the character. Are there other good skills, yes; great ones in fact for high combo spikes. But you don't need them for playing early on, and going all out with them usually means agro grabbing anyways.

After these grab the other 4 AoEs, prioritizing Lunar Surge for its KB (great for PV soloing), then get the other single target skills and 59s. But those are much further down on the necessary list.

michikobaby

demansfairy wrote: »

Why is this skill so low on the list? It only has 1 level and the clone effectivly doubles you dps on normal mobs and quadruples it on ? mark mobs, it's a skill I would get asap when you hit 79.

The way I answered the post was, which skills to focus on leveling when spending limited spirit. Because Lunar Shadow is an easy skill to learn/max, that's why it was low on my list.

Honestly I don't know why I even included the 79 skill... I always get at least level 1 of every skill to begin with and this one does not take much effort to learn. They even lowered the spirit cost of 79 skills from 1m to 235k...

If this did not help the OP then w/e b:bye

- Moved Lunar Shadow