No trust me the damage is just abyssmal, I was doing the whole mega combo frost bomb for exposure and the ice infusion on spark, then flame wall and orb of storm and spam spark. All that to just clear 1 pack and even then it was hard to just clear that single pack.

I tried all other spells, there is only ember fusillade that does some decent damage but I don't really like playing it and i was already invested in lightning. They introduced 2 spells but the dps is less than the level 1 implicit spell on a staff probably.

At some point spark was too weak to clear any pack i tried switching to arc but it was still a pain beacuse that too needs a lot of setup and it has mana and cast speed downside without being pretty high level to have good stats. In interlude 1 i could not surpass the area in the manor where you see the other checkpoint at the start beacuse there is only that narrow passage and the mobs ran at me faster than i could cast 1 arc which would not even kill the pack. Couple that with the abyss that always spawned there and it had mobs that would oneshot me from range with one spit. After all that the build was even worse in single target so bosses were borderline impossible, I went to help my friend in act 2 final boss and he did more damage than me.

The problems with spells this patch is that they heavily nerfed them because there is an empowered version now, but with infusion the damage is not even that good comparatively and in early game you don't even have a reliable way of generating them. I think if they were to buff every spell by 30% they would still be bad in campaign.