question about fvs capstone...

[elfforce1]

Is the searing light capstone spell affected by everything that would affect it normally? In other words you could cast searing light with full metamagics and enhancements for free with no limit, sounds to me like a pretty nice capstone.

[zopzop]

Supposedly the answer is yes. The thing is, even with all those enhancements and metamagic feats, you'd be doing around 150 damage per casting (and that's a generous estimate) or about 300+ on a crit.

The make or break thing for me was the recharge, supposedly it's 6 seconds. Which makes this capstone spell even more worthless. It's horrible in terms of DPS, you'd be better off just swinging your epic level weapon.

IF, and that's a big IF, the recharge time is actually 3 seconds like the regular spell, then the story changes. But I never got an answer from someone who went Silver Flame on their FvS.

[Matuse]

Capstone spells are all 6 second recharge.

[Xithos]

Yes, maximize and empower will let you hit for around 150 points of damage every 6 seconds. The DPS is pretty insignificant when faced with the hitpoints of epic level monsters and raid bosses but it is definitely more fun than standing around doing nothing when not healing (what my cleric does on tough content). For easier stuff like Amrath and the Inspired quarter the capstone is pretty cool IMO.