Re: How good is Surging Tempest?
ST is like the third spell I cast on a mob. It is very good dps but you have to use it right. It has to run it's full duration. Also, as far as I know its stilled fucked in that unless you keep your eye on the duration and toggle it off (by hitting the spell again) you wont get the last tick. I use profit ui and its very easy to just look to my maintained window timers and hit it again under 5 sec.
Now as far as enhancing it goes....there are some things you need to consider. Dumping points in it lowers the resistability and speeds up the duration. I believe that it goes from base 1 tick every 7.5 sec for 45 seconds TO 1 tick every 6 sec for 30 seconds. just off the top of my head here.. Now resistablity...thats what debuffs are for.
IMO there are only 2 times I would spend the AA to max this spell:
1) your raid kills things extremely fast. like trash mobs fall in around 40 seconds kinda fast. I would enhance it in this situation because as stated..unless you are getting all the ticks in you're getting jacked by casting this.
2) your raid kills shit extremely slow. I would enhance it to max in this situation if trash fights are taking like 1:30+ to complete. This would let you get 2 full cycles of the spell in easily. And also low raid dps usually means mobs arent debuffed enough. So the resistability decrease helps here.
I have 2 points in this ability myself.
edit: if you are just talking about groups then I wouldnt even cast this against heroics. They die too fast. Maybe if the healer sucks and that 1.5 sec knockdown will keep your tank alive then..i guess...
Last edited by SacDaddy; 03-07-2008 at 03:10 PM.
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