Celtic Heroes

Ok this skill has a much longer cast time and cooldown than ice shards. But since the nerf, it is weaker than ice shards(at level 1, but let me explain). I had a 25/20 ice blast, with a 200+ energy cost. I had an 18/20 ice shards with only about 80 energy cost. The ice shards always hit at least 75% of what ice blast hit, sometimes even less than 100 damage weaker. The skill needs an adjustment.

We have 3 options:

1. Reduce energy cost

2. Increase damage

3. Lower cooldown time.

I don't care how it's done, but the skill is broken.

I agree even with the recent fix it is only marginally better, still hitting just over half it was originally. Ice is just not a viable build anymore. Every mage I've seen has moved all fire or more likely has switched class to rogue.

My input is that area of effect skills and most damage over times are broken. The area of effects have dramatically reduced damage which just isn't good for this game where it is today. It is much better just to focus on one enemy at a time and kill it. The reason for this is enemies do just too much damage. If enemies damage was reduced by half then AOE would be viable. Since they are not viable right now, half of the ice damage spells are not viable since blast is gone. Which brings me to my next point. Most DOT's are broken. They deal less damage over thier 30 or so seconds that a damage spell does every 7 seconds. DOT should do more DPS over thier given length of time than normal damage spells. Sadly, this is not the case.

In all of my experience, my Ice blast has never hit more than 1 target. The fact that it is AoE isn't a reason to make it twice as weak as a spell of that statistics should be.

I did use as aoe to farm and every once in a while I would hit two mobs at once while leveling. I also would use it to pull multiple adds off of druids at boss fights. So it was useful as aoe, but I would prefer a more powerful single mob spell to a weaker aoe spell.