Flaming sphere scroll Fan Club thread

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Updated 1/13/2020. The following thread is a work in progress. Please consider adding suggestions with screenshots.

Flaming Sphere

• Where to buy: Marketplace (and PH) Morna Wyrmtouched <Arcane Scroll Vendor - Level 2> in The Marketplace Bazaar - 15pp. Cheap!!!! Or use the Long Broom of Mystery from Night Revels, 5 charges/day
• Duration: 1 minute. Update: according to Luxgolg in post 30, Artificer's Knowledge does not extend this duration.
• When cast: breaks stealth and invisibility. Update: from Qezuzu in post 24, Shadar-Kai can use shadow phase to cast it in plain sight! Also, one can use other techniques demonstrated in this thread.
• Action: Follows you around like a slow-moving summon but does not count as a summon! (you can have another)
• Damage: so lousy that it is negligible.
• According to Lanhelin, they are typed as Ooze!!! See this post for more details if you wish to charm an 'enemy' sphere!
• They are not pulling enemies from as far away since Update 37 Patch 4 (medium range).

This scrolled spell is very useful for tactics, both for general use (see below) and moving enemies in stealth operations. It cannot get blown away by wind elementals.

General Stuff
Light a Grease spell!


Summon multiples if scrolled (rather useless but fun)! Easy to do if back and forth between the Long Broom and the Scrolls! Casting it creates a long cooldown of the spell, so one at a time for sp users!


Specific Quests/Uses:

Missing screenshots To be added later:
- Distract wondering guards in Irestone Inlet (via cdbd3rd's post here)
- Draw out invisible mobs preventing room completions in Prison of the Planes when they aggro onto someone outside

Finding Dorris: Activate and draw the Pit fight audience away! Visit here for more!


Blown to Bits: draw warforged from the other sides of crates before placing the demolitions!


Light the tents in Siegebreaker


Move that last obstinate guardian off its pressure plate in Claw of Vulkoor. This does not cause it to see you! See this post for the penultimate one as well! If you try a regular summon, like a dog, it will count as 'spotting you'! Noisemakers work better but not everyone has four levels of rogue!


Light the Torches in Inferno of the Damned!


Distract pursuant Drow in Offering of Blood! (See this post for details.)


Distract the Guardians of the Spear for the Giant Skellie optional in Haunted Halls! (See this post for the technique)


Distract the Kobold Ambush in Fear Factory!


Master of stealth Quezuzu demonstrates how one can use the flaming sphere to move mobs blocking the many corridors in To Curse the Sky. Please note that the devs cruelly nerfed this quest to make pure stealth runs impossible!
His video is here; the forum thread is here. Below is a screenshot:


Distract scout minotaurs in Framework! (They will not sound alarm!) Also, use in final boss fight to pull the minotaur boss! See this video here by Spellburst!


Draw the Orthons and Barbed Devils in Sins of Attrition! (no Dungeon Alert risks here!)


Lure curious cultists to their doom in The Mask of Deception! This works in many quests with traps and 'mobs around the corner!'


Distract the mobs in the Drow Ritual of Servants of the Overlord! So much smoother to do this than to have them firing away at your friends! You might get hit!!!



Distract the Ambush in Litany of the Dead! Sort of...see this post how you can try it.

And more! Here, for The Snitch.
Death House: Rob the old couple more easily!!!
Pull hidden mephits in Fane of the Six!
Kill less collared slaves, merciful one!
Finish Siegebreaker less painfully! So inexpensive to do!



Stealth Tactics
Casting this breaks stealth and invisibility. Therefore, cast it while doing these tricks. Also, you can cast it out of sight and then stealth into a location. It groups enemies like a noisemaker, setting up avoidance or CC. Very useful for stealth builds that do not have noisemakers and trapmaking! Can be used in conjunction with them! Please note that U37Patch4 changes make the sphere pull mobs from a smaller radius ("medium range").




here, it blew out, but they still stand around like dummies!!!


Qezuzu demonstrates the use of Thunder-forged armor's shadow phase clickie to cast it in plain sight! See this thread for similar tricks!