for those who played Final Fantasy, u should know about the Ultima spell!!! it's a spell that targets every enemy (in the same room in this case). the spell deals more damage when there is a single target, and less when there are multiple targets. i was thinking maybe making this an ultimate mage spell for lvl 49 mages at gen 10. and maybe making the player choose between pris spray at lvl 42 and Ultima at lvl 49 (they can only choose one!). awsome spells needs sacrifices… as in not being able to use a powerful spell for quite a few levels.

as i was writting this, i was thinking about the damage. well a room with only one enemy would let u do more damage than pris spray. and a room with 2 enemies would let u do less damage than pris spray. but a room with like 10 enemies would let u do less damage than meteor. the spell cost should be around 200-250. this is not THAT MUCH since a gen 10 mage should be appraching 2k mana without the help of eq, empower nor lp.

I like the idea of an AoE spell have varying power depending on how many opponents it targets, but I don't think it should be used as a power move. I don't think it should go to mage either, who already has an AoE spell, not to mention chain lightning.

I'd lean more towards giving this spell to a psion. They are the only casting class without an AoE spell (off the top of my head, I could be wrong) and this seems to fit. Mass psiblasting would be weaker as it targets more enemies. It might be cool if you could also decide how much mana to channel into this blast. Something like so:

psibomb 20 // Uses 20 mana and move and does low damage to all enemies

psibomb 100 // Uses 100 mana and move and does low damage to all enemies

psibomb 1000 // Uses 1000 mana and move and does obscene damage to all enemies

I think there should be damage caps to this, as in it cannot do more than a normal psiblast to prevent piping in 1000 mana against a single person for PK. So perhaps no one would use 1000. But for 300, maybe you can do a psiblast to 10 enemies at once.

I'm not sure if this fits in with the style of a psi as the powers that be have envisioned. Is there another class that could benefit more from this?

Instead of Ultima lets give mages stinking cloud :D

but mages gets a very common regen spell that is so common it's not even funny, everybody can equip regen eq! it's even lvl 49 spell!

well i was thinking maybe sacking meteor and pris spray for Ultima at GEN 10. the spell does have it's down side u know… if ur enemy is in a group with a whole bunch of other meanies(for example, room with multiple bosses), then they would all be attacked… you can't CHOOSE that target, it blows up the whole room… players can counter this by charming a whole bunch of mobs so that they follow you around… so nothing is perfect.

the spell would definately have it's advantages during an one on one battle in the arena. when the other players doesn't choose to keep tanks around.

Uhh…

No.

If you want everyone in the room beating on you, you use meteor storm and then chain lightning. If you want a single target spell you use prismatic spray.

It doesn't add anything to the mage class at all.

And would you guys stop trying to give Psions AoE damage and the like :P Tempus psions don't do that; I would have thought that Nothing had made it pretty clear by now.

I also don't see this as being necessary or relevant. Meteor storm (correct me if I'm wrong) is the strongest AOE spell in the game. There really is no reason to give mages another AOE especially since they have chain lightning also. Additionally, I don't think it's such a good idea to be copying the "Ultima" spell name from FF.

By the way, psionics do have an AOE, it just not a damage AOE. Mass hysteria lets you cast fear on everyone in the room at once. Just goes to reiterate that psionics are supposed to be played in a different way than mages.

well the point is so that u can deal more dmg than pris spray when there is only one enemy in the room. well… it was intened to be something new… i thought the big genned ppl liked new stuff… rather than boredom…

This is mage we're talking about. We don't need spells like Ultima, we need spells like 'create silicon sabre' or 'quad damage'. Ok, enough tongue-in-cheek talk. Mages rock and I think those who devote themselves to mage will agree that mages don't need changes.

Mages don't need changes; but conversely are the easiest to come up with more ideas for :P There's so much that could be added / tweaked for mages.