05-18-2012, 07:33 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-18-2012, 08:57 PM by Concillian.)
I see the use of Teleport as being able to "get to the other side" in a hallway fighting champ packs / rare boss packs. You wake a pack and take some damage, you're usually backpedaling and the health orbs are on the other side of the pack. Teleport through them and heal up, then use Frost nova or Impact as defensive / CC abilities to wait out the cooldown to teleport back to the other side.
I'm imagining the reversal rune being pretty good for this kind of defensive maneuver as well:
Teleport away --- kite mobs away from where you were for 4-5 seconds
Teleport back --- head for the health orbs, kiting the mobs back
It's almost like having a shorter cooldown.
Your comments are interesting, because you seem to advocate Arcane Orb as a run and gun, but you don't like Hydra or Blizzard, which can be layered on whatever else you're using. Blizzard is low DPS, but provides a significant slow. Rune for larger area of effect will be nice when at higher level. This is also the power of impactful wave, or frost nova + teleport / reversal. more casting, less running.
You seem to favor the passives, which are great in a group, but solo you give up a lot of casting time by not having some control. You get a lot more mileage out of signature spells by having some control skills like Blizzard or force wave / impactful.
I'll totally agree that Arcane Orb is a great spell though. The ability to run and gun it is great. It's a hard hitter, has some AoE, and decent damage to AP ratio single target too.
There are some other miscellaneous benefits of some of the skills.
Arcane Torrent can single out ranged monsters easily. has niche uses when ranged are killing you behind melee. Disintigrate is probably better though, since it hurts the melee too.
Energy twister is (very) lame in the open, but better for layering damage in corridors, again niche, but can be used with blizzard + meteor + teleport / reversal to keep things in the area and layering the damage from many sources. Hydra is probably a better layer than twister though. You have to try pretty hard to make twister even halfway decent.
I'm imagining the reversal rune being pretty good for this kind of defensive maneuver as well:
Teleport away --- kite mobs away from where you were for 4-5 seconds
Teleport back --- head for the health orbs, kiting the mobs back
It's almost like having a shorter cooldown.
Your comments are interesting, because you seem to advocate Arcane Orb as a run and gun, but you don't like Hydra or Blizzard, which can be layered on whatever else you're using. Blizzard is low DPS, but provides a significant slow. Rune for larger area of effect will be nice when at higher level. This is also the power of impactful wave, or frost nova + teleport / reversal. more casting, less running.
You seem to favor the passives, which are great in a group, but solo you give up a lot of casting time by not having some control. You get a lot more mileage out of signature spells by having some control skills like Blizzard or force wave / impactful.
I'll totally agree that Arcane Orb is a great spell though. The ability to run and gun it is great. It's a hard hitter, has some AoE, and decent damage to AP ratio single target too.
There are some other miscellaneous benefits of some of the skills.
Arcane Torrent can single out ranged monsters easily. has niche uses when ranged are killing you behind melee. Disintigrate is probably better though, since it hurts the melee too.
Energy twister is (very) lame in the open, but better for layering damage in corridors, again niche, but can be used with blizzard + meteor + teleport / reversal to keep things in the area and layering the damage from many sources. Hydra is probably a better layer than twister though. You have to try pretty hard to make twister even halfway decent.
Conc / Concillian -- Vintage player of many games. Deadly leader of the All Pally Team (or was it Death leader?)
Terenas WoW player... while we waited for Diablo III.
And it came... and it went... and I played Hearthstone longer than Diablo III.
Terenas WoW player... while we waited for Diablo III.
And it came... and it went... and I played Hearthstone longer than Diablo III.