Whats the point of master level destruction spells?

[someonenoone11]

They all really suck.

Blizzard does ridiculously little damage! It says it deals 30 damage for 10 seconds but it doesn't. One ice storm kills a forsworn but it takes 3 full castings of blizzard to kill the same forsworn. So like... 3 castings of blizzard = (3 second cast time + 10 second duration) x 3 = 39 seconds to kill a forsworn who dies to 1 sec of ice storm. Imagine how blizzard would far compared to spamming Icy Spear.

Spamming lightning bolt deals more DPS than lightning storm (I suspect chain lightning does too), and as an added bonus you can move around and not have the 3 second cast time. Same thing with incinerate and Fire Storm. I mean, these spells don't even stagger the enemy, so you're sacrificing perma stun and have an additional penalty of 3 second immobile casting.

 

So what is the point of master level destruction spells? Am I a noob who is missing something?

[Matth85]

You mean exept the super awesome visual effect?

 

None. Expert level spells works wonders.

[Euclid]

I tend to agree. The expert spells incinerate, icy spear and thunderbolt are the best to use depending on the mob you face. Incinerate has some aoe whilst the other two are more precise and seem to have a farther reach.

 

The master spell fire storm I'm using occasionally when too many mobs are close. But since the casting is rather long and can be interrupted I use mass paralysis before.

 

Lightning storm suffers the same long casting but if it's running you can cast it continuously (until your mana is depleted, that is) and it deals a lot of damage.

 

Cheers Euclid