Wizard skill balance ideas

Familia

• Familia now can be used in combo

Meteor Strike

• Meteor Strike no longer hits randomly

Imperial Ray

• Now applies a weaken debuff that last for 15 secs instead. All of your magic attacks on the target will hit critical.

 

Imperial Ray - only the cat casts the spell while the player can freely move

 

I prefer this over the all magic will crit actually yeah

 

As for Familia, im alright with it being out of combo

Advanced Familia, I wish we could at least choose what skills it will cast from time to time

and the Meteor not being too random is good too

 

To me everything about Wizard skills are fine, except the skills themselves.

Dumb cat should've known how to avoid all avoidable attacks instead of standing there and take all the hits like a masochist.

All skills should be able to be casted by the dumb cat alone instead of "simultaneously by the player and the dumb cat" such as the case of Mana Crystal and Imperial Ray. I mean, why standing there like a dumbass for 2 seconds (or 4 if the dumb cat was already casting a different skill) for using Mana Crystal, while MP Charge is exactly the same but you can also instant cast Maximizer afterward? It's obvious which one is more beneficial, unless you're supporter.
Imperial Ray can be an exception but only if they make it a bit better than how it currently is.

In addition to the casting, Mana Crystal should just either give MP directly to the caster, or put it somewhere favorable and make it more obvious and allow to place more than 1 of it if it's meant to be a pt support skill.

Lightning should have either much faster execution or much higher paralyze chance. Imagine waiting for 6 seconds just for a lousy amount of damage and a hilariously low chance of paralysis.

Make Blizzard appears at the location of the foe at the end of the cast like Storm, not at the beginning of the cast.

Meteor Strike's randomness is dumb. It should've been removed long ago. Without that stupid randomness it's just a magic version of Satellite Arrow with bigger range, extra debuffs, and no pierce.

Make Stone Barrier scales with INT or MATK too. It's a skill that belongs to a magic skill tree isn't it?

For Imperial Ray, the damage is sadness and you need another magic skill along with the cat for the better damage. We already knew how slow the cast speed of magic skills are. And proration says "no u". Tbh just let the dumb cat do all the work while it's out and you're free to encourage us to ruin proration as much as you want.

And lastly, Advanced Familiar should've been a passive that improves the entire f*cking tree, not another dumber cat summon active skill. FFS why you give 2 identical summon skills in 1 skill tree? Well skill auto-casting is the only difference yeah but what's good about it? That random skill auto-casting cat should just burn in hell. The devs must've been drunk and used too much fake asacoco and forgot that a thing that is called "proration" exists. Not to mention there are situations you must not use AoE skills for safety but the dumb cat goes "nah fak u" can use Blizzard. Voila, now you're being chased by a f*ck ton of super strong and super tough and super angry mobs.

Solve all those issues and I bet everyone will be pleased.

 

Mana Crystal
-should be slowly approaching the nearest party member, and should affect pets.
Meteor Strike
-should have a pattern or atleast with increasing chances of hitting the target per strike.
Imperial Ray
-should be instant cast as long as Familia is active.
-should always counter the target's element (just like Enchant Sword)
Advanced Familia
-should include Stone Barrier or the Cat will imitate a magic skill casted by its owner randomly, but higher MP of the copied skill = longer cooldown of the next attack of the Cat (just like mercs). Also, the imitated skill deals half the original skill damage (not including combo tags, just pure constant and multiplier stuff).
Stone Barrier
-should NOT double the damage of Kairiki's [Ignition] (or just fix Serum).

 

Mana Crystal - Change to Mana Zone, create a zone of mana recovery for 60 seconds or until crystal is broken. Crystal draws agro from enemies.

Familia - It avoids AoEs.

Stone Barrier - Reduce fractional damage whilst in effect.

Advanced Familia - Second summon which you can set to continuously cast a specific skill. Has a 1 MP maintenance cost every 30 seconds for it's duration..

Imperial Ray - If familia is summoned, casted by familia only if user has advanced familia at lv10.

Blizzard - Add slow effect with 100% chance whilst in blizzard AoE.

Meteor - Impact radius increased to Finale's radius

Lightening - Increased damage or reduced cast time.