Thursday, December 10, 2009

Sigils of the Primal Storm

Power Attributes:
+ Deals electrical damage to targets within 15 feet
every 2 seconds
+ Chance for electrical attacks to chain to other targets
- Must be fully charged
- Only one type of sigil can be active at a time
- Sigils can be attacked and destroyed

Rank 1:


Rank 2:


Rank 3:


Damage scaling level 15 to 40

Level 15
  • Rank 1: 79 damage - 53 arc damage
  • Rank 2: 94 damage - 63 arc damage
  • Rank 3: 113 damage - 76 arc damage
Level 20
  • Rank 1: 102 damage - 68 arc damage
  • Rank 2: 122 damage - 82 arc damage
  • Rank 3: 146 damage - 98 arc damage
Level 25
  • Rank 1: 127 damage - 85 arc damage
  • Rank 2: 152 damage - 102 arc damage
  • Rank 3: 182 damage - 122 arc damage
Level 30
  • Rank 1: 154 damage - 103 arc damage
  • Rank 2: 185 damage - 124 arc damage
  • Rank 3: 222 damage - 149 arc damage
Level 35
  • Rank 1: 18 d4amage - 123 arc damage
  • Rank 2: 221 damage - 148 arc damage
  • Rank 3: 265 damage - 178 arc damage
Level 40
  • Rank 1: 217 damage - 145 arc damage
  • Rank 2: 260 damage - 174 arc damage
  • Rank 3: 312 damage - 209 arc damage
* These values are based on the Guardian (balanced) Role
* These values do not include super stats

Summary:
- Definitely a popular and crowd pleasing sorcery power. This power lays down five sigils around you that attack nearby enemies with lightning every few seconds. Depending on what you need, this power can be used either to damage enemies, or even (perhaps if you're a pet user) to keep attention away from yourself as enemies may go and attack the sigils because of the damage they do. After doing a bit of testing, these sigils scale with superstats and are also affected by passives and click buffs including the following:

Passives:
Aura of Ebon Destruction
Electric Form

Click Buffs:
Shadow Shroud
Electric Sheath
Imbue
Ascension
Immolation
Ice Sheath
Circle of Ebon Wrath

For those that like to mix things up with other powersets, one potent combination I found was the use of Circle of Ebon Wrath, Imbue, any of the other click buffs, as well as one of the above passives. What makes this so potent is the circle, click buff, and passive all help increase the strength of the sigils as expected. However, when adding Imbue on top of this, it allows the sigils to consistently deal critical damage giving them additional damage based on your Constitution.

As with many sorcery powers, although they require a fair deal of setup, they can be very devestating.

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