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Is lightning orb a good move?

is the i/l lvl 170 hyper really even useful?

July 21, 2015

7 Comments • Newest first

stillllish

[quote=CherryTigers]Adventurer mage teleport is amazing. It scales the exact length of chaos vellum's tail circles perfectly and is absolutely amazing due to the jump feature for traversing maps.
Higher speed/covering more distance doesn't mean everything. In fact, teleport jobs are far superior to flash jump jobs in many bosses as they can more carefully place their attacks and stand in the right places and overall have a better time in dealing damage.[/quote] You said it for me, ty.

Lightning orb is also useful at hard gollux (normal too I guess). When it switches to 3rd stage/jewel cast a frozen orb right before and hit lightning orb for the kill, you never have to move from the edge of the stage 2 plat.

Reply July 25, 2015 - edited
CherryTigers

[quote=bloodIsShed]explorer mage teleport is a joke, only slightly better than walking
i wish they'd increase the range of the regular teleport to at least match that of Kanna and replace the teleport hyper to something more useful
nowadays a level 10 non-explorer job is faster than a mage with maxed tele, and that's quite sad.[/quote]

Adventurer mage teleport is amazing. It scales the exact length of chaos vellum's tail circles perfectly and is absolutely amazing due to the jump feature for traversing maps.
Higher speed/covering more distance doesn't mean everything. In fact, teleport jobs are far superior to flash jump jobs in many bosses as they can more carefully place their attacks and stand in the right places and overall have a better time in dealing damage.

Reply July 23, 2015 - edited
JVIaplevoyager

It's very worthwhile to use even on 1v1 ever since the recent kms rebalance. Scratch that. Lightning orb is amazing after the rebalance compared to some of the hypers other jobs get at 170.

It's used in this video at 9 seconds:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TDpVYsRvJg

Also, @bloodIsShed, I/L's tele is very viable with the hyper plus the fact that you can jump tele. So, not all explorer mages have "bad" teleport. For example, I never need to climb a single ladder at scrapyard and some of the vertical gaps in the maps are pretty huge. Also, kanna's teleport is annoying and slow as hell.

Reply July 21, 2015 - edited
bloodIsShed

explorer mage teleport is a joke, only slightly better than walking
i wish they'd increase the range of the regular teleport to at least match that of Kanna and replace the teleport hyper to something more useful
nowadays a level 10 non-explorer job is faster than a mage with maxed tele, and that's quite sad.

Reply July 21, 2015 - edited
ho4show

-sigh- i/l mages could just be so much better... i mean we control LIGHTNING, the coolest damn element there is, and this is what they give us smh.
do any other i/l mages want a teleport that's like thunder breakers flash?

Reply July 21, 2015 - edited
bloodIsShed

only on bosses with multiple parts as said above. it's useless otherwise because it only hits 1 line at a time.
the update should make it a bit more useful.

Reply July 21, 2015 - edited
grawp77

unfortunatly its not
CL does more pds than lighthing orb
the only usefulness its on multi-parts bosses like zak and horntail beside that its crap

Reply July 21, 2015 - edited