What is the purpose of static field

Henryhaha

Seriously, why would anyone spend 75 mana at level 26 to use this ability? First, off it does not place a static field at your feet.

It is a targeted cast of caltrops that you can throw out. Second, it does 5 damage every 3 seconds for 6 seconds. It seems to damage as soon as you place it and then 2 more times for a total of 15 damage. With my 36 int on my spellblade I did 6 damage each tick for 18 total damage.

You have to cast it TWICE and wait the full duration to kill a level 1 mob. Now, I do realize it is AOE so it's not meant to do significant damage to a single target

but some damage to multiple targets. Let's break that down.

75 mana at 18 total damage equals 0.24 damage per mana per mob it hits. Discharge at my level with my intelligence is 36 mana and does 66 damage which is 1.8 damage per mana.

That means for static field to be worth casting I would need to hit 8 enemies for the FULL duration of the spell to make it equal.

Static Field also has a cooldown of 20 seconds while Discharge has a GCD only which is about 1.5 seconds.

The math isn't mathing here.

This spell is literally a CC players worst nightmare with basically zero benefit to the party.

I’m holding back on implosion because of cc issue too , make it immune to cc or give a 3 sec stun to compensate breaking cc at least …..

Henryhaha

Maybe it’s straight up for the niche use of farming low level mobs for tradeskills or whatever？

But Its not really feasible for that: The maths don't math in practice. You'd have to combine it with a Damage Shield and drop it at you feet.

Considering there's already a problem with high level crafters/gear hunters invading low level zones, I doubt the dev team wants to incentivize a single class to add such to their game loop.

Henryhaha

Personally I LOVE AoE ground damage spells

Give it enough damage to make it worth ruining the enchanters mood breaking all their cc

This is what I would do.

Static Field
PBAE Root
Mana Cost - Medium
Recast Time - Medium to Long

Root would act as normal root. Chance to break on damage.

If you want to give it extra flair could do any of these:
Casters can't gate while rooted.
Short duration silence.
Secondary Slow similar to previous ice infusion proc.

Jershey

it for pvp?

Sylphy

maybe just don't paint the floor when you're standing next to a mezzed mob?

Puma

this ability would make more sense in various scenarios:

each tick short duration stunned/interrupted spell casts of mobs.
each tick roots the mobs for 6 seconds.
each tick just did significantly more damage.
each tick applied a single charge of purge to enemies within the field instead of CC-breaking damage
each tick drained a bit of mana from each creature in the field given to the spellblade.

Literally so many ways to make static field useful so I have all the same issues as OP when reading the description. This spell makes no sense. I feel like it wasnt properly tuned after being added in placeholder status. The max rank of this spell does 30 dmg a tick for 3 ticks (90 dmg?) at lvl 59 lol. Literally this spell is worthless.