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Old 03-07-2008, 09:46 AM  
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Default How good is Surging Tempest?

I am close to the level of being able to use this. Just need to find someone to make the spell for me. Anyhow, the reason I ask is because I'm wondering if it's worth investing AA in to improve this spell or not. Do you guys use it much?
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Old 03-07-2008, 02:07 PM  
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Its pretty much one of the best spells ever.
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Old 03-07-2008, 03:07 PM  
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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...

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Doesn't every tick also give a chance of procs? Think we had a thread around with all the things that were weird with that spell ages ago.
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Doesn't every tick also give a chance of procs?
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But sadly still eats Freehand Sorcery
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But each surge tick can trigger a double attack atleast. Sometimes even more...

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Default Re: How good is Surging Tempest?

I like this spell. Use it when I solo heroic or raid. Mob usually day too fast in group situation. Like others said, the mob need to stay alive though the whole dots. I put 1 aa into it right away to get imp fusion/fission and will max it once I get max aa.
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