Miffy
Dalayan Adventurer
First let us look at the previous spell in this line:
Ethereal Cleansing
355 mana cost
250hp group HoT
Now the runic:
Runic: Protective Lustration
780 mana cost
390hp group HoT
8% spell damage reduc
The duration, recast etc. are identical on both spells. If there are any effects that do not show on the parser I have not noticed them.
This "upgrade" costs 120% more mana than the previous spell and only heals for 56% more. In other words, the runic is 64% less efficient hp to mana wise. Now, I understand that Ikisith spells are meant to be different than old world spells but losing 64% efficiency for only 8% spell dam reduction is not an upgrade or even a side grade. The other problem with this spell is that cleric hots over ride it AND druid and shaman runic spells will over ride it. This spell adds no utility to the class, its hp per tick is too small for the mana cost and the spell damage reduction is too neglegible. On any serious spell heavy encounter chacters will resist gear up and be resisting spells anyway, or they would rather have a cleric gheal on them which simply heals for more hp.
My suggestion for this spell would be either...
1. Jack up the spell dam reduction to around 15-20% to warant the mana cost and give this spell a niche of utility over the other HoT spells.
2. Add some other melee defensive effects to it, right now it is just a boring old GHoT with bigger numbers, give it some AC/DS/proc something to make it worth the mana cost.
3. The simplest but lamest solution, reduce the mana cost to around 600.
Ethereal Cleansing
355 mana cost
250hp group HoT
Now the runic:
Runic: Protective Lustration
780 mana cost
390hp group HoT
8% spell damage reduc
The duration, recast etc. are identical on both spells. If there are any effects that do not show on the parser I have not noticed them.
This "upgrade" costs 120% more mana than the previous spell and only heals for 56% more. In other words, the runic is 64% less efficient hp to mana wise. Now, I understand that Ikisith spells are meant to be different than old world spells but losing 64% efficiency for only 8% spell dam reduction is not an upgrade or even a side grade. The other problem with this spell is that cleric hots over ride it AND druid and shaman runic spells will over ride it. This spell adds no utility to the class, its hp per tick is too small for the mana cost and the spell damage reduction is too neglegible. On any serious spell heavy encounter chacters will resist gear up and be resisting spells anyway, or they would rather have a cleric gheal on them which simply heals for more hp.
My suggestion for this spell would be either...
1. Jack up the spell dam reduction to around 15-20% to warant the mana cost and give this spell a niche of utility over the other HoT spells.
2. Add some other melee defensive effects to it, right now it is just a boring old GHoT with bigger numbers, give it some AC/DS/proc something to make it worth the mana cost.
3. The simplest but lamest solution, reduce the mana cost to around 600.
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