by PlasticandRage Sat Nov 17, 2012 12:55 am
Yeah Im not entirely sure which it is either. I assumed it was magic damage, but either would make sense considering it has no faith requirement. I don't plan on increasing my INT or my FTH. So the GLSD would be from my base stat, which I think is 10 for FTH and 8 for INT. Or it could be other way around. I can't remember. I don't have it in front of me. I think I'm going with Tempest and ascended pyro flame. From the sound of all the info with the stats I'll have I think it's my best bet. The only thing Im really wondering at this point is whether or not the chaos will surpass the tempest in the damage department if I scale it with humanity. Even if it does a little less damage, if I'm casting it in an inclosed space the lava could make a huge difference. I think I have a toon with both. Im going to do a little testing I think.
Edit: In the notes on the wiki it actually says chaos storm doesn't scale with humanity?
Okay so I've just done some tests. Chaos Storm is more powerful than Fire Storm, but Tempest is more powerful than both. With a +10 Pyro Flame, on one of the ents in Darkroot, I did 520 with storm, 596 with Chaos, and 620 with Tempest. Also the wiki was correct. Chaos Storm doesn't seem to scale with humanity. Although because the geysers launch the enemies I've been trying it on it's hard to tell whether or not they're taking damage from the lava at all. So for all I know the lava, if touched directly, could possibly scale with humanity. It'd be hard to tell without having someone else to test it with.
Also GLSD is doing significantly less damage. I only have GLSD to test with this toon, as opposed to testing both GLSD and GLGSD, but with Velka's Talisman, 50 INT, and the Crown of Dusk equipped, I only did 438 damage to the same enemy as with the fire spells. That's also without any Covenant buffs, but I'd say even with the covenant buffs, cast from a toon with base INT and FTH, I'd be tickling my enemies with GLSD in comparison to the pyro spells.