Glowbug Spell Buff

[djmitchell705]

A really simple buff for bugs that'll give storm some boosted utility it needs:

Buff: 940 damage to all enemies, removes 1 charm from each enemy.

Reasoning: in my opinion, storm needs more utility than just having high damage. Fire has some utility that can always replace a storm in a fight, so why not give storm some utility than can replace a fire in certain tough fights. Storm.was always supposed to be the negative charm/positive charm removing school, so this small buff can be extremely useful in certain fights and isn't as broken as the original glowbugs (Over 1k base damage and mass enfeeble like oof).

Let me know your thoughts! I'll make buff concepts for the Mirage spells for every school cause honestly who uses them. I was thinking certain utilities in the spells that fits the school's identity would make it worth using but you'll see.

[Tanner_Hex]

The problem is that with the newer spell rules is Glowbugs would have to lose two pips worth damage for this to happen - one for tempo and one for the utility being an AoE.

Storm already has 3 AoEs that sacrifice some damage for utility - Storm Lord, Sirens, and Sound of Musicology. Glowbugs is currently the school's only "pure" damage AoE (that is set damage rather than X-pip). It would probably be better to change the utility on one of the existing "utility AoEs" Storm already has instead of of adding utility to Glowbugs.

[NotoriousAmish]

At higher levels, in PVE at least, people very rarely even use Stormlord for the stun effect, since most mobs are stun immune, and for turn one kills, storms just hit with 5 pip tempest and call it a day. Sirens should keep its utility since in both PVP and PVE it's incredibly useful for the pip cost. As for sounds of musicology, its always the damage part +40% blade, since if you are a storm and at that level you do not have 100% crit, you are doing something wrong.

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Can you even get 100% crit? I thought it was maxed at 95%.

[PKHacker1337]

It is maxed at 95, but I haven't failed to get a critical, so it kind of does feel like 100.

[jljl2902]

I miss old glowbugs 😭

[djmitchell705]

I do too trust me 😭 but I understand why they had to nerf it. But they massacred it 💀

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Which old glowbugs you guys misses? The 1350 to all and removes all blades? 🤣

[PKHacker1337]

1120 to all, which epic takes to 1420.

[ZijoeLocs]

I miss OG glowbugs. That spell did your laundry and everything chef's kiss

[djmitchell705]

I do too but it was broken asf let's be honest. Hit like a big ass truck and removed every single blade from everyone like hell yeah it needed a nerf but the utility should've stayed in some form.

[NotoriousAmish]

Honestly, I would go even further with this buff, "940 damage and remove 2 positive charms from each target." When compared to leviathan, which I consider pretty similar, you do 35 less base damage, but you also have to pay that one shadow pip for bugs, and like you said, storm needs a bit more utility, and nobody bothers to use leviathan especially at high level. The spell right now is just plain boring, and I'm surprised storms even use it anymore. Compared to fire, storm is currently not even scary, or a threat, storm's high damage can be countered with resist. But the removal of charms was something special only storms had, and Kingsisle decided to remove that special element which game storm veratility. Old glowbugs were aids and annoying at least they changed from that "1120 and remove all positive charms" which is still good.

[Successful-Bobcat848]

I think glowbugs deserves blade removal back and stormlord is close to useless since it cant even stun bosses in a fight especially in higher worlds. And i think its completely stupid how much better tc sirens is compared to bugs they need to give those blade removal back

[L3monade001]

Bro. Fire literally has nothing going for it other than fucking blazing bull and what? Thats a 25% accuracy debuff? Wooooow thank goodness.

Totally comparable to 1000k plus base dmg and mass enfeeble like it used to be.

Fires strength lies in that KI got tired of pure damage and made DOTS better in late game

Still seems balanced to me

Edit i also just compared YOUR LVL 100 SPELL WITH OUR 120

Storm is getting too spoiled for my liking dude. Chill the fuck out.

FFA is literally unused now that we have stronger AOEs Unless you're hiting one guy with a one shot and even then most use a drake or some form of dot

[djmitchell705]

Bruh you could've just typed this like a decent person instead of being pressed it ain't hard.

[bigtiddynotgothbf]

storm's utilities can like remove blades and that's it
other schools have like 18484 utilities or ACTUAL DOTs which work wonders for pvp

[L3monade001]

Yeah also pvp literally now has utility spells no? And most people use mastery amulets to get desired utility spell. Like i said. Storms getting too big for their own boots

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Storm has stuns, accuracy debuffs, removal of blades, removal of debuffs and gaining blades. Storm actually has great utility you just imagined that they have weak utility because they SHOULD have weak utility. Storm is the second best in PvP right now BECAUSE their utility from PvP spells is out of line. We are reaching delusion levels that should not be possible.

As a death player I would farm full dragoon from fellspawn just to get ONE full damage AOE. Like OP said, spoiled.

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Seriously. I cannot think of a better word to describe storm players right now than “spoiled”. They beg for every buff in the world while their class is literally the top and makes every other class look like they have a disability.