On Beta, Wizards were given a nice PBAE magic damage spell that actually did something besides agro the mobs. When it went live, obviously someone mistakenly replaced it with an untested version. This new version, instead of doing damage, absconds you to a safe spot in the zone. I found it very hard to DPS any mob while being ported out, so if you could fix this error ASAP it would be appreciated. Daktarr - 120 Level Wizard, AB
Damn, i missed seeing a PBAE from spell NPC in PoK. Exfiltrate offers no benefit, period. What was the PBAE magic spell called please?
When it first came out, it was called New Ether Shard Strike, then the renamed it to Lightening Strike or something like that, I forget. ~Daktarr
It's a spell for the mage clickie. The only way you may have gotten it in beta is when the NPC for auto granting spell was bugged and it would have given you anything usable by wizards.
Hello, I enjoyed plaing beta. The GM Ngreth told me, that the developers are aware of the problem with the lack of damage wizards do at the moment. When i saw that we got the spell "New Ether Shard Strike" in beta i was surprised, because this spell is a nice PBAE spell. I thought that is the 1st step in the right direction of rebalancing DPS. Unfortunately on live servers we got a spell "Exfile" which we did not get on beta server. Like Daktarr wrote, i think it is a mistake. Please give us the PBAE spell "New Ether Shard Strike" like you did on beta. Kind regards Aaragonn
Exfiltrate was on beta and had briefly been called New Depart. New Ether Shard Strike was never a new Wizard spell. It's a spell on a summoned item that mage's get. It just so happens to be flagged Mage/Wizard usable. If you want to use it get a Mage to summon you one.
Hello, thank you for the answer kizant. I did not thow it was something for mages only. I thought SoE did finaly boost the wizards DPS, giving us that spell. So i am still waiting for a serious WIZ DPS increase. Regards Aaragonn
The summoned mage item you are referring to is not an AE spell, it is a single nuke clicky. We had this, it was an actual wizard spell, and the mage had their new nuke clicky too. Never had the Depart as I recall, or never loaded it as it is useless. This was called lightning something, was 80ksih PBAE and the recast time was almost zero. ~Daktarr
I just checked my log, it was originally called New Ether Shard Strike and was a wizard spell, not a clicky from mage. And while we are on the subject, I just checked out the Exfiltrate spell, and it does not protect me with anything that I can see, and it takes slightly longer to cast than abscond, so as I said, useless. (Probably can fail like gate too no doubt)
I haven't notice any protection either, but are you sure it isn't because your zoning-time is longer than 6 seconds? Maybe the protection just fades away before you have finished loading? Have someone tried to inspect buffs on another wizard, immediately when he pops at the succor point? I think the protection should last longer than 6 seconds, 30 seconds is more fitting, and maybe add some invis/IVU for 30 secs too. At least that way you would have a chance even if the succor point was trained...
Hello, if the mage spell is not "New ether shard strike" the only conclusion is, that it was a WIZ PBAE spell (as intended). So it is missing on live servers, because on beta servers we (WIZ) did have it. Please fix that. Regards Aaragonn
No, the correct conclusion is that, like Kizant said, the PBAE spell you're referring to is an effect on a Magician clicky item. There are two Wizard/Magician usable Magician summoned clicky nukes in NoS. One is summonable on demand, is called Voidfrost Paradox, is a single target DD, and casts Voidfrost Paradox (orignially called New Frostbound Paradox). The second is summoned from the new cauldron spell (30 minute reuse random summon), is called Summoned: Darkshine Staff, is a PBAE DD, and casts Coronal Blast (originally called New Ether Shard Strike). The only bug, like Kizant said, is that Lorekeeper was incorrectly scribing spells that players were not intended to have.
New Ether Shard Strike was renamed to Coronal Blast during beta when spells got their new names: 11/16/2022 - Spell Name changed from 'New Ether Shard Strike' to 'Coronal Blast' Coronal Blast is the spell on one of the clicky item that gets summoned by the new mage cauldron: https://items.eqresource.com/items.php?id=109889 The clicky once summoned by a mage is usable by both mages and wizards.
Thank you all for your replies. I am quite grateful the data in Lucy helped me track down from where the PBAE 70K came. Tis exactly as written above. /hat tip
