Wail of the Banshee . . .

[General_Gronker]

A while back, this spell was fiddled with, stupidly, I might add. According to the DDO wiki, this is the spell these days:

Name: Wail of the Banshee
School: Necromancy (Death) (Negative Energy) (Sonic)
Level: Sor/Wiz 9
Spell Point Cost: 50
Components: Verbal
Metamagic: Heighten, Quicken
Range: Standard AOE
Target: Untargetable, Self centered circular AOE
Duration: 7 seconds
Saving Throw: Fortitude save partial
Spell Resistance: Yes
Cooldown: 60 seconds Wizard, 50 seconds Sorcerer

Description:
You emit a terrible scream, creating a deadly area around yourself for 6 seconds. Every 2 seconds, two nearby enemies must make a fortitude save or die. On a successful fortitude save, the target takes 1 to 4 negative levels. You are free to perform other actions while Wail of the Banshee is active.

Please fix the spell, restoring it to the way it should be, thusly:

Necromancy [Death, Sonic]
Level: Death 9, Sor/Wiz 9
Components: V
Casting Time: 1 standard action
Range: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
Area: One living creature/level within a 40-ft.-radius spread
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: Fortitude negates
Spell Resistance: Yes
You emit a terrible scream that kills creatures that hear it (except for yourself). Creatures closest to the point of origin are affected first.

Note that the casting time for this is One (1) Standard Action. This means it should have a cooldown of roughly Six (6) Seconds.


Come on people, it's not like you have to make these rules up as you go. They're in print and online you know.

[unbongwah]

Would you also like Turbine to implement the Vancean magic system of D&D, where a lvl 20 wiz would only get to cast their lvl 9 spells 4 times per rest, while the sorc gets a whoppin' 6 casts per rest instead? Because I assure you, in its current form, you can cast WotB a lot more than 6 times per rest shrine in DDO, despite the long CD...

Let's not kid ourselves: DDO is using such a heavily bastardized version of the D&D ruleset it is virtually pointless to point out the differences anymore. In particular, asking for only partial changes to DDO rules which are effectively huge buffs is not the same thing as asking for DDO to be brought in line with PnP rules.