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Nabru Yar · Sep 21, 2007, 03:09 PM // 15:09

Was wondering if someone would suggest a replacement for Meteor.

A longtime staple of my fire ele builds, I'd start an attack with Meteor due to it's (formerly) quick casting time and effectiveness/cost. But, these days it just seems worthless (i.e. interrupt food). Arrgh.

Did I miss an 'update' (ahem: nerf) where the cast time was lengthened from two sec to THREE? Ouch.

Melt

Dr Strangelove · Sep 21, 2007, 03:34 PM // 15:34

Meteor has always been 3 second cast time. Throw in the 30 second recharge and it becomes a pretty darn mediocre spell that's usually not worth it. it's hard to give you a replacement without seeing your skillbar, but [skill]fireball[/skill] and [skill]rodgort's invocation[/skill] are the baseline fire AoE spells that pretty much every non-SF bar should have. You can spend almost all your time spamming those two spells.

Turbobusa · Sep 21, 2007, 06:45 PM // 18:45

[skill]gale[/skill]
if you want a knockdown, here's all you need
if you want damage, i don't know why you picked meteor, so everything else will do

Coloneh · Sep 21, 2007, 11:37 PM // 23:37

dont forget [skill]liquid flame[/skill]

IceQ · Sep 23, 2007, 10:09 PM // 22:09

Hey, I used Meteor... once... long time ago

...

I am using Liquid Flame Now.

zling · Sep 27, 2007, 04:39 PM // 16:39

meteor never was a good skill, was 3 second cast 30 recharge as long as I can remember... never was on my fire ele's bar...
however now fire eles are limited to either SFway, SHway or Mindblastway which is more than some other professions

glountz · Sep 27, 2007, 04:42 PM // 16:42

WTB meteor improvement:
Meteor 10 energy 2 sec cast 15 recharge
Target foe and all adjacent foes are struck for 7...91 fire damage and knocked down. This spell causes Exhaustion.

themeteor · Sep 27, 2007, 05:15 PM // 17:15

wait, why do you want to replace me?

Sir Pandra Pierva · Sep 28, 2007, 02:00 AM // 02:00

I seem to remember a time when meteor was a 5 second recharge.

DarkGanni · Sep 28, 2007, 02:12 AM // 02:12

Quote:

Originally Posted by themeteor

wait, why do you want to replace me?

Rofl perfect timing dude

Personally I'd say Fireball or Liquid Flame as replacement.

- Ganni

Sir Pandra Pierva · Sep 28, 2007, 04:21 AM // 04:21

Quote:

Originally Posted by themeteor

wait, why do you want to replace me?

Your kinda outdated?

Tyla · Sep 28, 2007, 12:29 PM // 12:29

Quote:

Originally Posted by zling

meteor never was a good skill, was 3 second cast 30 recharge as long as I can remember... never was on my fire ele's bar...
however now fire eles are limited to either SFway, SHway or Mindblastway which is more than some other professions

why use SF,SH or mind blast when you have dual attune rodgorts spammers?^^(for destroyers/titans,winter is the way to go!)

Desert Rose · Sep 29, 2007, 05:38 PM // 17:38

Winter chance the damage after damage-calculation.
So, you will deal the same amount of damage.

Winter is pretty much useless unless you use Mantra of Frost or want to prevent Mark of Rodgort or Glimmering Mark to trigger.

Bouldershoulder · Sep 29, 2007, 06:00 PM // 18:00

It might just be me, but the casting time for meteor seems to have shortened.

Ensign · Sep 29, 2007, 08:30 PM // 20:30

Meteor has been 3c, 30r throughout the entire history of the game.

Div · Sep 30, 2007, 12:51 AM // 00:51

OP is an example of someone who blindly blames Anet for all the "nerfs" to their favorite skills. Meteor has never been any less than 3 second cast from what I remember. The game used to be slower paced in PvE, so 3 seconds may seem a bit faster back then :P

Maria Moon · Sep 30, 2007, 04:11 AM // 04:11

I would use either fireball or liquid flame

Coloneh · Sep 30, 2007, 06:14 AM // 06:14

Quote:

Originally Posted by Desert Rose

Winter chance the damage after damage-calculation.
So, you will deal the same amount of damage.

Winter is pretty much useless unless you use Mantra of Frost or want to prevent Mark of Rodgort or Glimmering Mark to trigger.

hmmmmm........ no

Perfected Shadow · Oct 01, 2007, 03:51 AM // 03:51

Quote:

Originally Posted by Desert Rose

Winter chance the damage after damage-calculation.
So, you will deal the same amount of damage.

Winter is pretty much useless unless you use Mantra of Frost or want to prevent Mark of Rodgort or Glimmering Mark to trigger.

Something seems to have changed with Winter. I remember a while back when I did the final prophecies mission, Winter with fire magic caused more damage, so the damage conversion worked correctly. I did the mission again recently and fire with winter sucked. Bug?

Oh btw Meteor needs a buff.

Sir Pandra Pierva · Oct 02, 2007, 12:52 AM // 00:52

No it was because everything there was weak against cold dmg