Ice Bolt / Ice Blast

[a.L]

Good info to know. I thought fireball was a ripoff. Now I know not to empower it.

Fire ball will eventually exceed fire bolt in damage; great skill especially if you land a critical hit. :/

[EdwardWarlock]

Fire ball will eventually exceed fire bolt in damage; great skill especially if you land a critical hit. :/

Yes it does. If you have the Cash Spark loot, you can reset the points (like I do every 10 levels) to make adjustments to your spell damage when you outgrow old spells for the best mage performance. Just a suggestion for the working class and those with platinum cash spark status lol!

[FatalLace]

for some reason i can get ice bolt to stick better than ice blast, case in point: in the old KKP KQ, slowing Robo down during the running of him to the end, Ice Bolt stuck probably 75% of the time, Ice Blast about 25%. just an observation.

woulda been nice if this skill, instead of lightning was castable while running.

[EdwardWarlock]

Maybe I'm just getting lucky with my Ice Blasts then. It's so pretty and it sticks everytime just about.

[Jikanu]

hm... im not a mage, but may i make a suggestion?

why not, durring pve, cast ice blast, and then use ice bolt the rest of the time? that way, since iceblast seems to be considered superior in terms of slowdown and success (by most here at least) you could gain aggro with it, and then use icebolt later in the battle if needed.

[EdwardWarlock]

hm... im not a mage, but may i make a suggestion?

why not, durring pve, cast ice blast, and then use ice bolt the rest of the time? that way, since iceblast seems to be considered superior in terms of slowdown and success (by most here at least) you could gain aggro with it, and then use icebolt later in the battle if needed.

That could work, if you have both spells in your hotkey list. They both share the same cooldown, so it doesn't matter too much although some say that Ice Bolt sticks more than Ice Blast when it comes to slowing down enemies.

[Hessah]

I guess it doesnt really matter...

the skill has 15 sec cool down.. usually when u're 1v1 soloing, the mob is usually killed by the time the skill has finished cooling down...