BUG: Air savant - dragon mark of storm is still broken post update 11

[bigolbear]

another update down, and the dragon mark of storm with air savant is STILL BUGGED.

Bear in mind this is a possible prerequisite feat for air savant and air savant should be a nice way of making it more effective. Their supposed to work together.

curently: with no savant lines or any savant other than air, the greater dragon mark of storm (call lightning) does about 150+ minimum damage with no potency crits etc.

with air savant it does 12 minimum damage, rendering it completely useless.

Now there have been several threads about this previously, i know its been bug reported. can we at least get a dev responce saying your aware of the issue and adding it to the known issues list.

[Valakai]

Yes. My sorc is shelved and shall remain so until this is fixed. Got to level 9 was feeling all giddy and excited and then - broken....Bug reported it. Got answer that it was known issue. Now playing my other characters but this is one of the most annoying bugs I have encountered. Heres to hoping it will be fixed.

[bigolbear]

shameless bump in the vague hope it might get fixed in update 12, maybe 13.

Hear me oh mighty kobold! fix my sorc!

[oweieie]

Sucks that it's broken but at a cost of 3 feats no one should ever seriously take it anyway, least of all a sorcerer who can do more damage in a single spell cast than lightning storm will do over a minute.

[wax_on_wax_off]

Sucks that it's broken but at a cost of 3 feats no one should ever seriously take it anyway, least of all a sorcerer who can do more damage in a single spell cast than lightning storm will do over a minute.

Not really, air savants are conspicuously missing any DoT spell and call lightning storm fixes the bill nicely. Call Lightning Storm should do quite considerable damage (about 500/tick on crits I hear?)

I too hope this gets fixed, I might just TR my sorc into a helf, even if it is slightly for flavour.

[Entelech]

The Devs are probably sticking their fingers in their ears and hiding under their desks for this one. I bet that any attempt to correct this issue would somehow nuke handwraps, hireling AI, and Kargon's Tasty Ham into smoldering digital wreckage.

[Saravis]

The thing is Lightning Storm is not, despite the name and behavior, a persistent AoE spell. A persistent AoE spell does two things, first it stays up doing DoT, second it hits multiple enemies at a single time. Lightning storm does the first, but it doesn't do the second; it only hits one enemy every few seconds. It is not comparable to either firewall or ice storm. Its a cool spell in the way that it works, behaves like a buff that you can run around with, but for the cost, 3 feats and 10 APs ,(unless you only want to cast it once) it ends up being horribly underwhelming.

[Ebonta]

Not really, air savants are conspicuously missing any DoT spell and call lightning storm fixes the bill nicely. Call Lightning Storm should do quite considerable damage (about 500/tick on crits I hear?)

I too hope this gets fixed, I might just TR my sorc into a helf, even if it is slightly for flavour.

Did something happen to Eladar's Electric Surge when I wasn't looking? That's a DoT spell man.

[oweieie]

Not really, air savants are conspicuously missing any DoT spell and call lightning storm fixes the bill nicely.

Huh? They have a very nice DoT. And no, lightning storm does not fit the bill, it will occasionally hit a single random mob around you. You're looking at, if you're EXTREMELY lucky, 10 strikes, but more likely 3 or 4, sometimes 1 or 2.

Call Lightning Storm should do quite considerable damage (about 500/tick on crits I hear?)

A single cast of electric loop for 4 sp on a pack of mobs will not only out damage a full duration lightning storm, but the loop will also stun. So you're spending 3 freaking feats to end up doing less than what you can do for 4 sp. A chain lightning will vastly out damage the lightning storm.

I too hope this gets fixed, I might just TR my sorc into a helf, even if it is slightly for flavour.

Using half your feats won't add flavor, it will suck out effectiveness. There is no way I'd do it on a class with bonus feats like Wiz or Art, let alone on an already feat starved sorc. It needs to strike 5x as often and do 4x the damage to even be on par with the spells you can already cast that don't cost 3 feats.

[pipboy1]

Any change on this post update 12?

[CheeseMilk]

Not really, air savants are conspicuously missing any DoT spell and call lightning storm fixes the bill nicely. Call Lightning Storm should do quite considerable damage (about 500/tick on crits I hear?)

I too hope this gets fixed, I might just TR my sorc into a helf, even if it is slightly for flavour.

I think he meant AOE DOT, like fire wall, ice storm, or acid fog.

[pipboy1]

Well I am was thinking about making a gimp, interesting, flavor or whatever air savant build with dragon marks. So was wondering if it is still broke. I was really only interested in it if call lightning storm would work with the air savant otherwise it is going to the shelf.

[Balewind]

Yep, still broken. I recently ran in to someone who said that if I was NOT air savant (ie: any other type of savant) that my Greater Mark of Storm would actually do the damage it's supposed to... but the instant I start increasing my caster lvls as an Air Savant... I loose any kind of bonus I can possibly get with the Call Lightning I'm doing piddly damage with it that makes me want to cry sparks. Sooo disappointing. Calling down showers of nasty lightning is sorta the Air Savant THING, right? So yeah, bump to get this one fixed! Has something to do with the caster lvl increase.

[bigolbear]

shameless bump:

still not fixed, my air savant is curently a water savant... grumble.