Re: Dragon Spellcaster Guide
I think this post is a little misleading.
I played a dragon 'spellcaster' for almost 40 levels. You can kill stuff, but melee is a lot faster. Even wearing my caster scales (+power), I found myself doing much more damage with melee.
The spells are fine, but such a very high proportion of our damage comes from gold rage and silver strike whose damage and effectiveness are derived from melee statistics.
Try to be a spellcaster and you gimp your best attacks.
One extra thing I'd add to the original post - statistics. I asked around in game for more details on these. This is what I was told.
The two big ones for spells are power and primal.
Power = improved spell damage
Primal = you need a certain level of primal to scribe spells (and more primal skill is needed to scribe teched spells); also improves spell accuracy.
Focus is less important.
Focus = improved spell accuracy (but not as much as primal).
(for anyone interested in melee, strength = more damage and tooth-and-claw = more accuracy)
The general wisdom seems to be that dragons should invest the majority of their skill points in tooth-and-claw and primal. And my experience, having tried to play a dragon spellcaster after reading these posts, is that it isn't very effective. It did get better when I could use double-teched spells, but even then...
I'd like to think that in the future the developers give serious thought to making a dragon spellcaster feasible. I'd like to play one - especially since that's what Helians are supposed to (primarily) be. A simple solution might be to provide alternatives to gold rage and silver strike which are based on power/primal. If the alternatives share the same timer as gold rage and silver strike then it wouldn't be adding to dragon's power, just giving them more choice in how they play.
Re: Dragon Spellcaster Guide
There was a spell Version of the Gold Rage being tested before the sales. A couple months before the sales in fact that then later disappeared with no word on what had happened too it or when it would come back. If you look through the Blight board you should find some threads on it.
Re: Dragon Spellcaster Guide
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Deth
There was a spell Version of the Gold Rage being tested before the sales. A couple months before the sales in fact that then later disappeared with no word on what had happened too it or when it would come back. If you look through the Blight board you should find some threads on it.
I recently offered a few suggestions to bring a move like this in for casters again, and those have been forwarded to the dev team. Whether or not they'll concern themselves with giving us poor casters a balancing heavy hitter is up to them. However like you fellow casters, I'm tired of settling with epic spells that; simply put, are a joke. Most of them do less damage even when primal casted, than a GR hit from a full statted melee dragon. Hopefully soon us Helians, and even aspiring Lunus casters will matter... damage/heals.
Re: Dragon Spellcaster Guide
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fermi443
I recently offered a few suggestions to bring a move like this in for casters again, and those have been forwarded to the dev team. Whether or not they'll concern themselves with giving us poor casters a balancing heavy hitter is up to them. However like you fellow casters, I'm tired of settling with epic spells that; simply put, are a joke. Most of them do less damage even when primal casted, than a GR hit from a full statted melee dragon. Hopefully soon us Helians, and even aspiring Lunus casters will matter... damage/heals.
I'm back, and I've got some tips for dragons looking for casting strategy/technique.
(BUFF WITH ALACRITY! BUFF WITH PRIMAL ATTACK! BUFF WITH PRIMAL ROAR!)
The new Primal Alacrity, coupled with end game gear that I've acquired, has finally balanced my casting to something manageable. I can now keep myself alive at least, and Primal Cast helps. The ability to drop mass AoE damage makes up for a good amount of lack luster single target damage.
Casting Mass AoE Damage:
Use an AoE debuff, and then cast your favorite epic spell or breath burst with Primal Damage buff on for mass AoE damage. I've managed a 4k hit on every target amidst a pull of about 10+ mobs.
(Melee stat dragons still almost pull off just as much damage unfortunately when casting the same. Theres probably only a difference of about 600 damage on target for an epic hit.)
Primal Cast:
Primal Cast is your bread and butter for mass AoE damage. Buff with it whenever you log in, and it'll sit and wait to be applied to your next spell attack. Meanwhile, the move will simultaneously cool down and if you wait long enough, Primal Cast can be used again as soon as you use your first charge. This effectively gives you a chance to triple cast both your breath burst, and your favorite epic. This gives you a good chance to deal about 5 - 7k damage to your targets, in just a few seconds.
(Primal Cast will apply itself to debuffs cast on enemies! Be careful, use a damage attack if you have a charge waiting, and then debuff your enemy. It is not worth it to lose that triple cast on a debuff.)
Use your debuffs! They're AoE, and they open your enemy up to heavy Primal damage!
Your heals are very slightly more potent in comparison to a melee dragon. Use them wisely, unfortunately they do not yet balance for the deficit of ability Casters have compared to a dragon with a melee configuration of stats and gear. Damage, and survivability alike, melee still FAR outclass casters in potential and capability. This is as far as I've discovered at least. I will post a gear guide soon as well. For now, build a set of all power, maximizing on the use of crystals to boost caster stats.
Re: Dragon Spellcaster Guide
How do you USE the spell? I'm only a lvl 5. I've scribed the spell, put it in my hotkeys bar, I click on a target, but it says you need to scribe it first...
Re: Dragon Spellcaster Guide
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.Moonstone.
How do you USE the spell? I'm only a lvl 5. I've scribed the spell, put it in my hotkeys bar, I click on a target, but it says you need to scribe it first...
Are you sure you scribed spell or formula?
To use spells you need to acquire formula first and craft spell using formula. then scribe the product. or you can buy spell from somebody else too.
Re: Dragon Spellcaster Guide
You right click the spell, choose Scribe. Then you open your Knowledge book and you'll see it listed under spells. That's what you want to drag to your hotbar key. Drag from the knowledge book, not your inventory.
Re: Dragon Spellcaster Guide
it did not work cause skills maybe change with carecters