Mind Drain aka. Fear

[Triumph]

But she said best, not highest, and if most of us our using our level 1 skills because they are better all-around, would that not technically make thme our best?

Depends on your point of view. You can argue that level 1 spells are the best with respect to efficiency, yet the highest spells are the best with respect to damage and effect.

I'm still thinking of a chained 20-second Fear @.@

40 seconds in which you can do nothing but stone....


srsly.

Drugs are bad.

[Hessah]

i think u should try sit there and watch a clock and count 20 seconds and REALISE how LONG it actually is!! (and while u count.. think about all the spells you can cast)

i get stunned by orcs for 4 sec and i think that's long already.......

[Ringetsu]

Eh....i think chain cast's effect wears out too....if you do not cast a spell within the time limit it gives...it wears off...and i think it's less than 20sec. Also, take in consideration of fear's cool time which is 1:30sec compare to any stune move of the fighter's it's much longer. But I do believe that 20sec is overkill....make it 10sec max is nice....pvped a capped fighter yesterday...he critted 1.7k on me..and I'm with full end equip with t3 def scroll but i only have 1.9k hp...result = instant death since he crits tons =_="

[Enraya]

Au contraire, the majority of mages actually use the weakest, level 1 spells.

Level 1 spells take the least SP and only do 20 damage or so less than the full power spells.

But she said best, not highest, and if most of us our using our level 1 skills because they are better all-around, would that not technically make thme our best?

Yep, what Spirit said. Best, but not the highest level.
So whatever makes most damage out of a certain amount of time xD Not necessarily the highest level spells.

@ Hessah

Haha, yeah ... I'm trying to imagine how to cope with 20 second fear and watching the seconds tick @-@; My aimed shot can cool down twice with that, LOL. And archers skills have long cooldowns.

20 seconds really seems like overkill ... 20 seconds of no moving, 20 seconds of no attacking, 20 seconds of someone blasting away at you @-@; Not very fun.

[Kyrillos]

Max Fear should be is 10 seconds, un-empowered >.>

20 seconds is a bit long, and it does break it a bit too much, I can kill most yellow/orange mobs at 60 in under 10 seconds, with no fear.

It'd break the skill empowers that some people have too. Instead of a 10+x seconds, it'd almost be better to empower CD time to have a minute of cool down, instead of a minute and a half >.>

Just a bit of two-cents. -throws out some pennies-

[Flowersss]

Probably just another typo >__>

" It must have been a typo, a typo, a typo...it must have been a typo, we all make mistakes!"

anyway....
I hate it when I get feared by highlevel mages...they pwn me.

[Ringetsu]

xD Just maxed duration on my fear yesterday, a certain 5k hp cleric got killed soon after xDDDD (crits ftw~!)

[Ralath]

OMG WHO?"!?!?!?!?

[Icy]

Level 1: 4 seconds (max empower +3 seconds) = total 7 seconds
Level 2: 5 seconds (max empower +3 seconds) = total 8 seconds

Source

There's nothing wrong with the skill.

This is off-topic but: I think the layout on that page is very easy to read. -Eyes the wiki-

[Ringetsu]

OMG WHO?"!?!?!?!?

*Insert Name Here* It was due to some dungeon spot issue :/ we got into a big fight, soon after I pmed his gm...n his gm disbanded guild n joined me xDDD btw I was tanking with a fighter the other day and got feared then I got stuck and can't move O,O" had to let MD kill me to solve it. Seen a lot of this happening when I'm pvping fighters and after they say I cheated. :/