Sadishist Posted December 29, 2012 Share Posted December 29, 2012 Lightning Barrage (in the Lightning skill tree for sorcerer) Affliction's critical hits have a [50 / 100]% chance to grant Lightning Barrage, causing your next Force Lightning to channel and tick twice as fast. This effect cannot occur more than once every 10 seconds. It should be lightning strike, not affliction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MantorokTwelve Posted December 29, 2012 Share Posted December 29, 2012 Why on earth would you want that? Your affliction should be up 100% of the time if you're lightning spec, it would be a nerf to have LB work on lightning strike instead of affliction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schnopsnosn Posted December 29, 2012 Share Posted December 29, 2012 Why on earth would you want that? Your affliction should be up 100% of the time if you're lightning spec, it would be a nerf to have LB work on lightning strike instead of affliction. Actually this would be quite the buff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MantorokTwelve Posted December 29, 2012 Share Posted December 29, 2012 You're saying crits on your 1.4 second cast ability are more of a likely proc than crits on your DOT that should always be up? LS gets no crit benefit over affliction, there's no reason LS would be better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schnopsnosn Posted December 29, 2012 Share Posted December 29, 2012 You're saying crits on your 1.4 second cast ability are more of a likely proc than crits on your DOT that should always be up? LS gets no crit benefit over affliction, there's no reason LS would be better. Yes, because Affliction only ticks every 3 seconds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
verfallen Posted December 29, 2012 Share Posted December 29, 2012 Yes, because Affliction only ticks every 3 seconds. Would be a nerf to the hybrid, for not much of a buff to pure lightning. Affliction 2 targets, and you get LB passively going on with little delay. Overall bad idea, safe for people who thinks hybrid should not be possible, to which i disagree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schnopsnosn Posted December 29, 2012 Share Posted December 29, 2012 Would be a nerf to the hybrid, for not much of a buff to pure lightning. Affliction 2 targets, and you get LB passively going on with little delay. Overall bad idea, safe for people who thinks hybrid should not be possible, to which i disagree. Doesn't affect me on most boss-fights. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sadishist Posted December 30, 2012 Author Share Posted December 30, 2012 This is not a suggestion topic!!!!!!!!! It's a bug report one. Lightning strike critical hits activates lightning barrage, NOT affliction!!!!!!! Test it!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
verfallen Posted December 30, 2012 Share Posted December 30, 2012 Doesn't affect me on most boss-fights. You still get it, often enough, unless you went all power no crit. At any rate, its not going to change the rotation much, nor will you gain much efficiency with it. It will however break 0/13/28 and in a lesser extent 0/18/23. Any corruption/lightning hybrid would be hit rather hard. All of this because pure lightning players want a small working part of the LOWER tree to be slightly more atuned to them? If it was broken, ok maybe, but its not the case. One more LS or two if barrage is being stubborn won't break your dps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schnopsnosn Posted December 30, 2012 Share Posted December 30, 2012 This is not a suggestion topic!!!!!!!!! It's a bug report one. Lightning strike critical hits activates lightning barrage, NOT affliction!!!!!!! Test it!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Tested it, it does not. @verfallen: Oh certainly, no argument from me there. However it would be a DPS-increase for pure Lightning. That this would break anything else is a whole different story... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
verfallen Posted December 30, 2012 Share Posted December 30, 2012 This is not a suggestion topic!!!!!!!!! It's a bug report one. Lightning strike critical hits activates lightning barrage, NOT affliction!!!!!!! Test it!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Tested it (blew 30% of force in the dummy) and nop. You are wrong. Apply affliction : wait. Proc Spam LS, no proc. I dare hope you didn't ALSO have affliction up, and drew conclusions when a LS crit happened, without checking if affliction also happened to have critted at the same time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fungihoujo Posted December 30, 2012 Share Posted December 30, 2012 If you have affliction on two targets... Frankly, this is a pretty bad idea and a nerf to almost everyone. So grats jerk, BW's going to put it in next patch and call it a buff, then mara are gonna whine that sorcs are super OP now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
verfallen Posted December 30, 2012 Share Posted December 30, 2012 If you have affliction on two targets... Frankly, this is a pretty bad idea and a nerf to almost everyone. So grats jerk, BW's going to put it in next patch and call it a buff, then mara are gonna whine that sorcs are super OP now. If you had bothered reading OP clarification on the first page, you'd be aware off how much your post is unrelated to the thread, and uneccessary angry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdmiralParmesan Posted December 31, 2012 Share Posted December 31, 2012 This would be a nerf to full lightning spec in pvp though. Getting casts of lightning strike all the time is far from easy and it would also kill the hybrid specs as for mentioned. Leave it as is Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xeraz Posted January 1, 2013 Share Posted January 1, 2013 If they buffed Lightning Strike then this could be a future buff to the class. Although any time Bioware makes an entire spec revolve around one ability it's a mistake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdmiralParmesan Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 If they buffed Lightning Strike then this could be a future buff to the class. Although any time Bioware makes an entire spec revolve around one ability it's a mistake. Yeah like Mercs and tracer missle? Every "buff" for merc has been a complete failure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fungihoujo Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 If they buffed Lightning Strike then this could be a future buff to the class. Although any time Bioware makes an entire spec revolve around one ability it's a mistake. If you have affliction on two targets- that's 2 tics/3 seconds. LS, the only way to match that would be to do nothing but spam it- which would also mean being able to stand still. In pve against a single target like a boss I could see this becoming a miniscule buff. In pvp- there is pretty much zero situation ever where LS being what procs this rather than affliction would be a good thing... With the exception perhaps of there being a time where affliction is made so bad you wouldn't want to waste a GCD on it- but I doubt that'll happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exothermix Posted January 3, 2013 Share Posted January 3, 2013 Lightning Barrage (in the Lightning skill tree for sorcerer) "Affliction's critical hits have a [50 / 100]% chance to grant Lightning Barrage, causing your next Force Lightning to channel and tick twice as fast. This effect cannot occur more than once every 10 seconds." It should be lightning strike, not affliction. I think it is working as intended. I believe that affliction is currently proccing LB which gives the FL buff. In summary I think there is no mistake. Not sure what all the hoo-har is by everyone else. Tool-tip states what is actually happening in game as far as I can tell, will test when I get home for certainty. On that basis no need for change/correction. If there was any error then it would likely just have been fixed by changing the tool-tip wordage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fungihoujo Posted January 3, 2013 Share Posted January 3, 2013 There's no mistake- you can spam lightning strike all day long you will never get a lightning barrage proc- you will only get instant chain lightning procs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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