>>My character has fully outgrown Starlight Sphere's usefulness and I would love to forget the spell. Any hope for that someday?

Nope.

-Armifer
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There should be a quest for earasing quest spells. heh

Clanthew would be an ideal staging point. We'll just have someone cast Fire Rain in each room to make sure we clear out the obstacles. Since it's legal.


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>>I was thinking about getting the spell to mess around with...why does it suck? I don't wanna make the same mistake you did if it's not for me. -Vaeyrin

First, this is obviously all my opinion and I respect the work the GMs do. This spell isn't right for my character for these reasons from most discouraging to least:

1. 100% useless at daylight. I tend to log in during day time.

2. Slow. About every six seconds the spell does an action. If you move into a new room, find a target, you have to wait for it to count up to six before it comes into your room. Then you point the sphere at the target and have to wait six seconds before it gets to pole ranged, and then melee range, and then it will attack.

3. Accuracy. Sometimes it hits very well and the target will die in one hit. Other times you'll be waiting a long time for it to even draw first blood. It's like having a lower level hunting partner with you who takes forever to kill the stuff you're used to blowing up in seconds.

4. The amazing mysterious water rooms. SLS stuns and hurts you if it pulses in a water room. Sometimes the room you're in won't even seem like a water room, but SLS thinks it is. There is one in Crossing's Rock Trolls. I don't know how to test a room to avoid this, so I never cast SLS in areas I've never been to.

The only benefit to SLS is mana effeciency, fight a target while you hide, or to wear down an opponent's Shear with no feedback to you. I'm better at managing my attunement now, my targets run away if I'm hiding and people move away if you point SLS at them. So I have no use for SLS, as SOME others will agree. It's just too bad, because SLS and Burn were the only spells I wanted to 100% forget. At least if Burn gets nerfed from its DFA function. Which I'm fine with, I just wouldn't want the spell anymore. I'm forever stuck with both now ;)

-Ghodbane

I love SLS despite the drawbacks. I'd love the water aspect to go away considering it does hover in the air and doesn't necessarily touch the water...and the nerve damage does seem more like electric shock damage...



-Coralin

"If Fate is your God, and God doesn't care, then why should you?" - Caelumia

The main niche of SLS is mana efficiency (short term benefit) and attacking things you can't successfully defend (a bad habit that should be avoided in the long run). It is great around 40th circle, but it does get outgrown quickly.

>Could perhaps a severe MO penalty be added to the spell when both the caster and sphere are attacking something? That would provide a useful benefit for higher circles I would think.

At higher circles your offenses so outpace your defenses I can't imagine this being useful. Might help you when you first get the spell though.

"or to wear down an opponent's Shear with no feedback to you. "

How does you avoid the feedback? Does it not teach you TM?


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