purpose of maxamize spell?

[scottyboy1979]

Ive been playing for almost two years and like many of you guys i learn new things about ddo everday. Ive been trying to figure out how maxamize works and if its worth a featvfor artis. I currently have around 400 sp on my electric, force and fire spells and since it doesnt show up in my spell power list im kinda wiery about how much extra it does. Please help thanx

[FranOhmsford]

Ive been playing for almost two years and like many of you guys i learn new things about ddo everday. Ive been trying to figure out how maxamize works and if its worth a featvfor artis. I currently have around 400 sp on my electric, force and fire spells and since it doesnt show up in my spell power list im kinda wiery about how much extra it does. Please help thanx

http://ddowiki.com/page/Maximize_Spell

[Paleus]

Ive been playing for almost two years and like many of you guys i learn new things about ddo everday. Ive been trying to figure out how maxamize works and if its worth a featvfor artis. I currently have around 400 sp on my electric, force and fire spells and since it doesnt show up in my spell power list im kinda wiery about how much extra it does. Please help thanx

Maximize adds 25 spell point cost to spells and adds 150 spell power to the spell (if applicable to the spell, i.e the spell does damage). Each point of spell power will grant 1% extra damage to the spell. I don't think it will show up in the spell power list on the character sheet as it would have to recalculate on a spell by spell basis. However, I would definitely recommend getting it.

After you get it, you will want to choose when to use it. Metamagic feats like maximize do not apply the spell point cost when applied to an SLA, so you want to always use it for SLAs you pick from your enhancements. You can do this by dragging the spell to your hotbar and then right-clicking the spell and applying metamagic feats. The other way of using it is to drag the metamagic feat itself to your hotbars and turn it on and off that way (but it is much more cumbersome to do it that way).

If the spell isn't an SLA, then it is not always a given that you want to use maximize. For a lot of spells with low spell point costs and quick cast times, casting two spells back to back is often more effective and less spell point costly than one maximized spell. Other times, you really want that spell to do the most damage in the least amount of time and you would want maximize on. For an artificer, think of the difference between static shock and blade barrier for this.

[Banshee_Kate]

Good advice from Paleus.
Now, it was only recently in game, they added that ability to right click a spell & apply Maximize, or Heighten, or whatever, to that spell. The advantage to doing it that way is that it will be applied only to that one spell you click on.

If you drag a meta feat to your bar & click on it, it will apply the additional spell point cost to every spell you have going, all at once, & that can wipe you out of mana quickly if you didn't mean to do that. So, right clicking a single spell at a time is better, most of the time. :)

[scottyboy1979]

Ive been playing for almost two years and like many of you guys i learn new things about ddo everday. Ive been trying to figure out how maxamize works and if its worth a featvfor artis. I currently have around 400 sp on my electric, force and fire spells and since it doesnt show up in my spell power list im kinda wiery about how much extra it does. Please help thanx
Thx guys much better understanding lol heard so many strange interpretations last two years lol now it makes sense.

[goodspeed]

its basically free dmg on just about any spell like ability.

[Singular]

I'd recommend getting maximize and empower - you end up spending less mana by killing mobs with fewer spells. Also, there are various ways to reduce the spell point cost of max+emp. I keep mine turned on for almost everything, and only turn them off for specific low cost spells I want to spam (like gust of wind, magic missile+force missiles if you're a shiradi). That way, max+emp work on your secondary effects, boosting their damage.

[Ermin_Sivarch]

generally the purpose of the maximize spell is to add spell damage to your attacks. It use to double the base damage, but that changed when they added spell power into the game. with SLA's, its a free bonus you can use to boost there effectiveness. It also works with heal spells and auras, boosting extra healing.

If you have any type of SLA, having empower and maximize will allow you to give an extra oomph to those SLA's that can use them. Not all SLA's allow you to use these meta-magic feats.

If you look at your character and go to there feats, its in that list if you have it you can bring it to your tool bar from there. As stated before, you can also select them for individual spells by right clicking on the spell in the tool bar. If an SLA can use them its always a good idea to use empwer and maximize and even quickness and any other applicable meta-magics you can on an SLA, as it doesn't cost you extra mana/spell points to use it. Also the bigger spells like blade barrier that use alot of mana already to cast them, having them even more powerful is usually a good choice for maximize.

Some spells take a long time to cast, so having the quickness meta-magic feat for those spells makes it worthwhile. Also if your casting a spell that you don't want interupted, having quickness on that spell makes it unable to be interupted, although if someone knocks you down while your casting it, it will still stop the spell. Good spells for quickness are any SLA that can use them, flame turret for arties, otto's sphere of dancing, and mass heal for cleric/FV. Also if your impatient when buffing the summoning spells having quickness on them makes it faster to bring them up. Like summon monster IX.

[Kriogen]

I use Maximize (or Empower) if:
- I want something go down like yesterday
- mana efficiency. Example: spell costs 30 mana. Do I need to cast spell 2x times (30+30=60 mana) or is 1x+Maximize (30+25=55 mana) enough.

[janave]

Since all SLAs get free metamagic, id say "all self respecting caster" would want them. SLAs are a big part of dps rotations and saving your blue bar for other than killing stuff.