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Mu vs Pyro

hidbyflames

By hidbyflames,
Posted on: 2012-01-17 15:08 in Archetypes and Powers General Discussion

 

Posted

Mathmatically which does more damage Ball lightning or fireball?

Scrappers: (50) BS/SD,(50) Spines/INV, Controllers: (50) Fire/Kin (50) Fire/Storm, Tankers: (50) Stone/SS (50) Stone/DB (50)Stone/Elec (50) Ice/Stone (50) Fire/KM (50) Elec/SS +3, Blaster: (50) Ar/Devices, Brutes: (50) Claws/WP +2 (50) Elec/SD +3 (50) Claws/FA +1 (50) SS/WP/MU +3(50) SS/FA/Soul +3, (50) Elec/TW +2, (50) Warshade, (50) Plant/Dark Perma Dom+3

 

Posted

Ball Lightning does 32 damage per animation
Fire Ball does 40 points of damage per animation

However, fire ball only gets that damage from a DoT which gives it the extra 8 (3 ticks of 2.81) while Ball Lightning drains some end and debuffs recovery rate. Mu also comes with a res buff which is useful.

It is up to you which you pick, but my preference would be mu.

 

Posted

I'm guessing this is a question about brute epic pools? Fireball does ever so slightly more damage, and casts slightly faster. On the other hand, Ball Lighting requires one less power choice, and that prereq can be Electrifying Fences for yet another AoE.