| You trace an intricate sign that contorts in the air while forcefully invoking Balefire... |
| Your spell is ready. |
| You gesture at a monastic lich. |
| You hurl a ball of greenish-black flame at a monastic lich! |
| AS: +274 vs DS: +188 with AvD: +65 + d100 roll: +8 = +159 |
| ... and hit for 37 points of damage! |
| Muscle blasted away from the monastic lich's arm exposing scorched bone! |
| The monastic lich is stunned! |
| A bi-taloned dark grey grik'pwal shudders slightly as chaotic energy is drawn from its form and fused with the attack. |
| (Your dark grey grik'pwal loses 2 mana.) |
| ... 18 points of damage! |
| The ball of greenish-black flame strikes a monastic lich, blossoming into a much larger sphere of flame upon impact. |
| ... 3 points of damage! |
| Burst of brilliant energy to head stuns the monastic lich for an instant. |
| You trace an intricate sign that contorts in the air while forcefully invoking Balefire... |
| Your spell is ready. |
| You gesture at a monastic lich. |
| You hurl a ball of greenish-black flame at a monastic lich! |
| AS: +274 vs DS: +131 with AvD: +65 + d100 roll: +89 = +297 |
| ... and hit for 111 points of damage! |
| Fiery blast of plasma blows the monastic lich's leg into a bloody spray! |
| The monastic lich is stunned! |
| A bi-taloned dark grey grik'pwal shudders slightly, but nothing further happens. |
| The ball of greenish-black flame strikes a monastic lich, blossoming into a much larger sphere of flame upon impact. |
| ... 7 points of damage! |
| Plasma scorches a hole in the monastic lich's weapon arm! |
| The monastic lich seems to collapse in upon himself, leaving only a withered husk. |
| A white glow rushes away from a monastic lich. |
| The glowing specks of energy surrounding a monastic lich suddenly shoot off in all directions, then quickly fade away. |
| The dim aura fades from around a monastic lich. |
| The shimmering multicolored sphere fades from around a monastic lich. |
| The light blue glow leaves a monastic lich. |
| A monastic lich appears less confident. |
| A burst of flame from your ball of greenish-black flame flies off and hits a spectral monk. |
| ... 10 points of damage! |
| Large gash to the left arm seals as strike passes through. |
| Cast Roundtime 3 Seconds. |
My sorc doesn't have a lot of choice (I use gold wands when bolting because 713 is so expensive) but this illustrates why I rarely, if every, use ball spells on my wizard. The flares are poop. I'll occasionally use major fire on trolls, but that's about it. The times when there's enough targets a ball might outperform it's minor version, you're probably better off using ewave+cone and doing some real damage.
The flare damage doesn't warrant the cost. Can we get the DFs to match their minor cousins?
Or preferably get the flaring part up to spec. (or even more preferably, both ;D )
