Magnus exorcismus is intended to be a doom AOE against certain classes, not an instant put down effect. I will grant that the aftercast delay is something that is being looked at.
Heim probably has a prerenewal outdated idea of ME being strong and casting fast, and probably doesn't believe how really bad skill it is right now and probably doesn't believe too that ME is the only leveling skill for archbishops because the new bishop skills are bad for leveling and partying is broken.... Here is a fast check on ME, and why it should be made useful:
ME (Heim's mid version):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFwq8gs4lRo&feature=related
However, here is ME, renewal realty version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4wKZ2O5yHI
On the first part, we can see ME takes a looooooooooong time to cast, while you have to pot and stand there. After ME is cast, you also have to stand there, pot in the afterdelay, and not get statused. If you are affected by, for example, stun; ME will stop dealing damage.
Now, when we have maxed status... ME is still too slow, and the damage is still low. For an ultimate AOE doom skill, as heim describe it.
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Now, let's take a look at how the other classes without the "ultimate doom AOE" deal with the same mobs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UuHLkHcCpI
This is a knight. she kills faster than our ME killer, and with really random gear. Each bowling bash does about double damage as our ME wave does, but without a hugenormus cast bar, forced element or forced race or dissapearing cells or having to stand there waiting... (I'm a horrible knight btw)
And finally:
This is a chaser. firing trap deals much more damage than our "ultimate AOE doom skill", doesn't have a 15 seconds cast bar, doesn't have delay, costs really few SP, and on top of that, I didn't even use pots liek with priest, because of autohealing. While using just eden group gears ^^.
Heim, Magnus Exorcismus is not the ultimate doom skill you think it is. At best, it is a really limited skill in usability with the longest cast bar in all skills, with low damage even among magic users. If you can not make this skill more useful (for example, changing it from its restricted form of only damaging 2 races to instead just do a holy AoE magic damage regardless of race); at least reduce the cast time of ME to match how useful this skill is. You could probably make ME instant cast and it would still be worse than most of the other classes attacks, but ME is the only leveling bishop hope.
Could you try lowering its cast time during this maintenance?
Thank you
Edited by Kadnya, 26 May 2011 - 04:30 AM.