Arcane Orb skill runes

Just picking out a random Wizard spell, Arcane Orb!

Powerful but not without its drawbacks. Great potential for interesting skill runes.

I was thinking of one where instead of detonating on impact, the Arcane Orb passes through enemies and only explodes once it has reached its destination.

Or, one where the explosion is split into a series of concentric circles which explode one after the other. It'd take longer to take effect but it would have a wider splash radius.|||It would be nice to have one that travels faster and homes in on targets.|||Greater speed would be nice, but do you think the homing effect would be a good thing? Maybe if it homed in to the position where it would hit the most enemies. That would be pretty strange, but interesting.|||Hi!

As arcane orb is AoE spell it would be highly beneficial for it to put a debuff on enemies it hits. Debuffs could be pretty much anything from slow effect to resistance reductions.|||Quote:








Hi!

As arcane orb is AoE spell it would be highly beneficial for it to put a debuff on enemies it hits. Debuffs could be pretty much anything from slow effect to resistance reductions.




Seems appropriate too, because who knows what surprises an Arcane Orb might have in store. Maybe it could become a Chromatic Orb. |||I like the idea of it travelling faster with one type of rune and another causing small orbs to shoot out from the main orb as it explodes. They would cause less damage but there would be perhaps four.

Another rune could make the orb bounce 2 or 3 times and each time it deposits a smaller orb that remains for a second and then explodes causing damage to a small radius. That last idea occured from looking at the sequense shot, the second screen shot.|||Make it shoot Magic Missiles a-la Frozen Orb.|||Make it set the impact area on fire for a short time (meteor).

"Chain" casts; cast once, get a short timer, cast next one within timer, does a lot more damage, but hurts you. Repeat up to three or four, doing MASSIVE damage in a HUGE radius, but also hurting you.

Land mines; orb sits in a spot for a couple of seconds, then detonates. You can prop four or five at a time, and on the fifth or six cast, they all go off at once.

This is fun!|||Yea, and then try to balance it.|||Quote:








Yea, and then try to balance it.




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