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Apocalypse Spell

Posted: 04 Mar, 2014 23:00
by sergio_cannabis
I found an apocalypse staff and i would like to know which element apoca is.

Posted: 04 Mar, 2014 23:12
by AlinBallin
i think its physical

Posted: 05 Mar, 2014 11:54
by SlapZ
AlinBallin wrote:i think its physical
It's Fire / Physical, with fire part being over 90% of total damage of the spell.

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Posted: 05 Mar, 2014 17:55
by sergio_cannabis
thx :)

Posted: 05 Mar, 2014 18:43
by AlinBallin
nooo qwhy is there apocalypse spell :( it shoudnt exist !

Posted: 05 Mar, 2014 19:24
by SlapZ
AlinBallin wrote:nooo qwhy is there apocalypse spell :( it shoudnt exist !
Why? There are so much fire resistant / immune common enemies that it isn't really an overkill, even when accounted for the damage.

Considering it's mana cost you can put up several Guardians as an alternative. True, they won't do as much burst damage, but can in the end do even more damage than Apocalypse, while you will stay safe behind a wall.

Other mass Fire damage spells are unreliable.
Firewall shines on lower levels, but hell onwards it's hardly usefull.
Flamewave is useless. It's mana cost should be cut in half to even consider using it.
Meteor Swarm deals damage in unpredictible manner, and I have found more complete item sets than it's spellbooks (33 lvl).
This leaves us with underleveled Fireball and occasionally Apocalypse when Fireball is not enough.

Posted: 06 Mar, 2014 0:43
by Helliousdiablo
SlapZ wrote:
AlinBallin wrote:nooo qwhy is there apocalypse spell :( it shoudnt exist !
Why? There are so much fire resistant / immune common enemies that it isn't really an overkill, even when accounted for the damage.

Considering it's mana cost you can put up several Guardians as an alternative. True, they won't do as much burst damage, but can in the end do even more damage than Apocalypse, while you will stay safe behind a wall.

Other mass Fire damage spells are unreliable.
Firewall shines on lower levels, but hell onwards it's hardly usefull.
Flamewave is useless. It's mana cost should be cut in half to even consider using it.
Meteor Swarm deals damage in unpredictible manner, and I have found more complete item sets than it's spellbooks (33 lvl).
This leaves us with underleveled Fireball and occasionally Apocalypse when Fireball is not enough.

relax its nerfed by one second , besides its not that strong against hell and nightmare monsters .... some are immune to some magic spells.

Posted: 06 Mar, 2014 0:59
by BrightLord
Meteor is very good spell because it does physical splash damage.