Meteor please!

One of the most iconic spells from Diablo is missing from PoE.

Feel free to call it something else but can we get a single giant awesome fireball falling from the sky to annihilate everything - with a conflagration on the ground there-after? It would be cool it functioned much like storm call (timing, aoe, etc).

Thanks!

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cgexile wrote:

One of the most iconic spells from Diablo is missing from PoE.

Feel free to call it something else but can we get a single giant awesome fireball falling from the sky to annihilate everything - with a conflagration on the ground there-after? It would be cool it functioned much like storm call (timing, aoe, etc).

Thanks!

Not sure the Engine will tackle it. Dominus shape-shift and CoC rapes enough.

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BisuProbe wrote:

well theres firestorm

with a mtx in the form of a giant spiked metal cage

Id love to see that with CoCS

Seriously. This one stupid support gems is so harmful to evolution of this game it is not even funny..

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Mahesys wrote:

No, that's . He said .

Ok so Firestorm sucks - just about everything about it like its machine gun sound effect, flat trajectory visuals, and its alt mtx effect. They could have randomized the firestorm shower start and end point to make it more authentic. Instead their intern just made 1 effect and then randomized the position and called it a day.

ScrotieMcB corrected the one reply but then ended his on a smart ass comment - no surprise there.

If you remember Meteor, it has this initial point of impact sound and UI, to the 'holy shit that's awesome' shortly there-after as it came crashing down. If you had surround sound with a nice sub, it was great! That's all I'm suggesting - something awesome. It does not have to be a replica. They should get creative and do something even better.

Storm Call comes close on the awesome meter (albeit it's lightning) - mainly its second stage. Its first stage lightning buzz sound effect is still pretty pathetic.

Firestorm has so much potential but like I said, they must have had an intern design it because it is about as bland of a spell as you can get. Had they done it right perhaps I would not long for Meteor.

Edit: I found a thread that basically talks about all this here:
http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/13708 ... I'll chime in there.

Although it isn't as cool looking, Flameblast is probably the closest thing we'll get.

I really like Meteor/Comet/etc in Diablo 3. Wish we had a Vaal Firestorm that was one big impact like meteor.

And I agree that Firestorm is the most bland spell in the game.

Going further than just visuals and looking into gameplay, meteor is completely different than firestorm.

The idea of meteor was that 1 cast was enough to obliterate a group of monsters but you had to keep them there for the thing to land. Which meant combining it with some slow / freeze effects or running around and herding them into that place. That was the brilliance of Diablo 2.

In POE, that shit skill firestorm keeps you spamming that button standing in one place just like pretty much any other uninteresting skill.

Blizzard, the skill, was again different from firestorm mainly because of its longer effect duration. Meaning you could move and kite with it. Firestorm dies off moments after casting even with increased duration support, making it utter bland crap.

Storm call could have been cool, but the devs went again with the "spam as hard as you can" philosophy, making you again have to cast it repeatedly to get full effect and thus we are back to the same old "stand in one place spamming right click" type of game play.

Another opportunity wasted.

gg ggg