The joys of using 4 mages and Chain Lightning

[nexus5934]

I most enjoy using 4 mages, I find warriors a bit slow, the sheer range of mages is great.

 

Anyone else tried this

 

 

4 mages each with a chain lightning ring ( they do work contrary to some stuff iv'e read on the net )

each mage also having the CL upgrade and Stormbringer.

Targeting Venatori or Templar.

Making sure to use tactical so each mage targets a different foe, I love seeing the mass of bolts that gets

produced zipping between each foe.

And then Stormbringer comes down finishing off anything left.

Id like to count them sometime, each mage can get 6 hits with the upgrade, so in theory if each hit gets projected by the target to those nearby that's a mass of ricocheting from 4 mages.

 

[Thandal]

Pretty sweet! I've only ever run with two Mages, since I hate not being able to open certain doors. :laugh:

[nexus5934]

Yes locked doors are a problem, but the stone fist talent allows locked doors that don't require deft hands to be opened.
Other than that there's not many locked doors that require deft hands so I just pass them by and go get a rogue for a few minuets then go back to my 4 mages.


I generally have 2 mages with a fire staff and 2 with cold ( all maximising critical chance - seer staff, Dragon blade, MW hilted staff) and prioritising energy barrage. I was surprised
when I started experimenting with this formula how effective it was, Gurn's just disintegrate as do those big wart hog/ rhino things and they slaughter Giants, compared to the time I used to spend hacking away with warriors.


The chain lightning's only effective when there's more than one foes as it's main power
( I think ) is inpassing the damage on, I'm not sure about a few thing's with chain lightning.


Is the damage to the second target greater the stronger the primary target, and does it
rebound. I've seen chain lightning pass from one to two to three to four foes, when there's
four mages each targeting a different foe and of course the stormbringer is coming down
( stormbringers pretty effective in certain situation's ) anyhow it's just not possible to
work out what's happening in the chaos.

I'm now also wondering if combination's of fire, cold and electricity have hidden effect's.

I'm also thinking about the potential for scoring critical hit's with chain lightning used by 4 mages, I would imagine the arcing hugely increases the potential for critical hits.
Especially when seer staff, dragon blade and mw hilted grip takes you easily over 50% critical chance. Some target's must get hit by arcing from other mage's primary target's. so if 4 mages and 4 target's each target has the chance of being hit many times.

Edited March 2, 2015 by nexus5934