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Lukshad wrote on 2016-07-09 06:48
So I've picked up Alchemy for some of its skills that give me more utility, and Frozen Blast is on my to-do list. I'm reading old threads and discussion pages about it's freezing effect's duration, and then I stumbled upon special upgrades for it.
If you go Red, you get +30 Range. That's probably modifying the angle, right? Any confirmations?
If you go Blue, that's an additional +9 seconds.
What are you guys' opinions?
Edit: I just added up rank 1, special upgrades and cylinder upgrades for hurricane and got a total width of 96 degrees. That's actually pretty sweet, does anyone know if anything else affects that?
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Konrad wrote on 2016-07-09 09:35
Elemental Wave boosts Frozen Blast to full 360 degrees, so unless you want to spam the skill every minute of so Blue might be better.
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Lukshad wrote on 2016-07-09 17:56
Elemental Wave? I'm still pretty new to alchemy; the only things that I have ranked so far are the production-type of transmutation skills, shock and guard shield mastery.
I can wiki Elemental Wave I suppose, but if you have experience with the skill would you mind giving me a synopsis of it?
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Konrad wrote on 2016-07-09 18:16
Basically, if you equip both cylinder and guard cylinder you have access to gauge with 4 marbles - one for each element. As you use different alchemy skills the gauge fills and when all marbles are full you can use Elemental Wave. There is also another skill - Golden Time which fills all marbles instantly and has 3 minutes cooldown at rank 1.
EW affects some alchemy skills, but there is too much stuff to quote from memory so I'll just link you to the wiki.
http://wiki.mabinogiworld.com/view/Elemental_Wave
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Lukshad wrote on 2016-07-09 18:38
Okay, thanks. So in a nutshell, in order to get the 360 degree effect from EW, I'd have to use alchemy skills of each flavor, with the exception of using GT once every three minutes to bypass that criteria?
I don't want to add too many alchemy skills to my rotation necessarily, but it wouldn't hurt to check out my options. So far Shock and Frozen Blast work well as utility skills since I don't care about their damage and therefore I don't need alchemy enchants for them.
Either way, I'll definitely look into the other skills some more. Thanks for the info Konrad!
P.S. If I do decide to use EW for Frozen Blast, that would easily make my decision for Hurricane's special upgrade.