Who has the best AoE right now?
I use to love playing AoE classes dating back to everquest running PBAoE groups in sebilis with 3 wizzies, chanter, SK/Bard for pulling and a cleric was so much win. Even though the numbers arent as big and flashy as single target nukes I just like dropping an AoE on that fang carrier while his whole team is stacked up and watch tons of numbers scroll by. I have tried cabalist and it was fun firing of 3 tyranny but is there any other soul that can do better AoE damage?
Riftblade/Reaver/ChampOriginally Posted by Emily27
Everything I do is AoE.
from a melee perspective Reavers have great AoE, so do Champions, i haven't seen enough Riftblade to attest for that but i'll go ahead and assume they make a good pairing with the other two..
for Caster i think Pyromancer is a good aoe, but i don't know enough about the mage specs to answer for them really
Faemist - Defiant
Koralium - Warrior [Tank]
Korial - Cleric [Heal/Tank]
When i realized RIFT had AoE looting. i immediatly pre-ordered the game. The simplest features can be the most impactful.
Mainly looking for caster answers here.
I have noticed in my instance groups as my pally/reaver that whenever a pyro was in the group all the aoe pulls just went down extremely fast... which always makes me look for a good pyro It would be amazing if I could pull together a group of 3 pyros +war and healer a run like that would be done in no time....I have also seen Marks/assasin and they do very consistent aoe damage in groups of 3.
I always topped the meters in WFs as cabalist. I heard stormcallers do even more might roll one of them in next beta.
You better off going for melee AOE.
If you want aoe mage, and dont care about competativness or pvp, then the build is warlock/elementalist/chloromancer.
pull with your pet, drop chloromancers vile spores on a few mobs, then use your channeled aoe DOT, it damages you heal, you pet heals when he hits stuff, rinse and repeat.
Go for melee if you want high damage aoe, and pvp comtepativness.
Stormcallers get several AE spells, and you can spam Forked Lightning, but the damage is pretty low, in my experience. If I'm playing in SC spec and I get multiple mobs I tend to sic the pet on one, squirrel the 2nd, and then I can tank and kill the 3rd on my own, then finish off the pet's mob, then work on the one I squirreled. I only use the AR spells if the adds are the half-hp version, in which case it's just spammity spam on the main mob and the adds die 1st, then switch to single target on the main mob to finish it off.
I hear the Cabalist is pretty good AE, but I've never tried that soul out yet.
My brother plays a pyro...Firestorm is some pretty sick aoe dps. I believe that is the spell please someone correct me if I'm wrong. It's a channeled aoe that they place with a target ring. Does very nice damage.
Warlock/Pyro have some nice sustained aoe DPS. On top of that Pyro has CC/Aoe DD, while necro has HIGH damage AOE that heals for 100% of the damage. Part of the warlock cycle is to lifetap to get back mana, so before poppin gthe AOE/damage/heal lifetap back to full mana, warlock aoe Drains a TON of mana btw.
-note only relevant to beta 6
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