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Talk:Most useful. Acid or Electricity?
I want to maximize one of these two. Which one will be most powerful/useful through the game, acid or electricity?
I'll be a fire servant and I won't be able to maximize cold spells, since the new system would severely reduce the opposed element's effectiveness.
I mean, which one will be more required, deal more damage, at a general point.
Nayus 20:39, July 24, 2011 (EDT)
what is the best through the entire game, i dont know, its hard to say. at end game and for single target DPS, electricity and cold are for the win. those level 5 DoT spells (Niac's Biting Cold, Eladar's Electric Surge) are extreamly powerful. use them both at the same time, even better.
- fire savant → good for undeads which is pretty much non-existent at end game (maybe just Undead Sor'jek)
- earth savant → i have no idea. i only use Acid Fog, just for AC debuff.
- air savant → fine spell DPS, wing is a fine feature too.
- ice savant → best single target DPS at end game, due to Polar Ray
yoko5000 00:05, July 25, 2011 (EDT)
Elec spells, aside from Eladar's Electric Surge(godly), become terribly inefficient at endgame, as they all have REFLEX saves (which most bosses will have evasion/decent reflex save). Chain Lightning will be best for large groups, and Surge for Boss/singles. Acid spells became far more usefull with the major acid res nerf that almost all monsters got. Cloudkill (with a decent d/c) is able to drain epic monsters CON, which makes them a bit easyer. Both the Fog type spells in the Acid line provide great Harry cover. Melfs Acid Arrow, while not as powerfull as the Surge, can be cast 3x as fast/often, leading to more targets hit when compared to Surge. Also, switch to Ice Savant, endgame almost everything becomes immune/heavy resistant to Fire (Demons/Devils for instance)
Yawgmoth 02:30, July 25, 2011 (EDT)
Okay, switching to ice servant. I'm analyzing acid and elec's spells, which one shall I choose? I thought elec would be far more powerful, but acid really wouldn't have disadvantages. Althought, Eladar is a GODLY spell, with no saves. The only one who appears to be more valuable than acid's. What about taking this spells without enhancements as a dps secondary spell, since its damage repeats itself without my actions. (Or even taking some elec enhancements if I have points enough (What I don't think would happen) So, I'm thinking about taking Ice servant with acid as the second element. Would elec really be more powerful? I'm emphasising that I want damage above anything else.
Nayus 10:03, July 25, 2011 (EDT)