07-21-2020, 10:24 PM
the damage is a maximum of 9*3.5, which is 31.5 damage. it's 5 tiles wide and inflicts a slow while damaging iirc. at 300 MD it's hitting for 12-14k damage
'Otherwise, why use it over Occult Orbs?'
you shouldn't be choosing one or the other if you can have both. they're both good damage spells. usually having an extra on someone's hotbar would help rather than hurt them. it's not really a great argument to make at all because it's kind of like saying 'why do more damage overall when you could do less...?? why should i use piercing strike over orbs, or uh... flameslide?' it's comparing apples and oranges while ignoring that there's 10 slots on the hotbar rather than 1
though orb spells are certainly overtuned and it wouldn't be terrible if they were toned down some, probably, & maybe there are issues with shadow cannon but it certainly isn't the damage
'Otherwise, why use it over Occult Orbs?'
you shouldn't be choosing one or the other if you can have both. they're both good damage spells. usually having an extra on someone's hotbar would help rather than hurt them. it's not really a great argument to make at all because it's kind of like saying 'why do more damage overall when you could do less...?? why should i use piercing strike over orbs, or uh... flameslide?' it's comparing apples and oranges while ignoring that there's 10 slots on the hotbar rather than 1
though orb spells are certainly overtuned and it wouldn't be terrible if they were toned down some, probably, & maybe there are issues with shadow cannon but it certainly isn't the damage