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Originally Posted by Wilshire [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Cascade of Hail is actually better than Ignite in terms of damage per mana.

Ignite - ~37 damage for 30 mana at level 14.
Cascade of Hail - 81 damage (3 waves of 27 each) for 62 mana at level 14.

While there's no way an untwinked toon is going to have enough mana to be quadding at 14, it's still actually a pretty decent spell if you root bomb (and grasping roots doesn't break). While it's by no means critical, and Ignite is definitely better if you're kiting, Cascade isn't totally worthless. Cascade is only sort of worthless if you're just snaring instead of rooting the mob. I guess it depends on playstyle.

The same with Befriend Animal. It's not necessary to be charm kiting at that level for sure. There are some areas where a 14 could use it though. West Commonlands, Oasis, or Karanas, for example.

Neither of those spells is totally worthless. Yes, they aren't strictly necessary. At 14, you could still pretty easily handle most blues or on-level cons by root rotting (Grasping Roots + Stinging Swarm), nuke kiting (Snare + Stinging Swarm + Ignite while running), and even by meleeing a mob to finish them off. So, I guess that you could ignore those spells if you really wanted to (or at least save them for later) but to say that they're useless is a stretch.

Interesting point. But I would expect the percentage of root breaks to be pretty decent and as such the rain spell could be a complete waste of mana if the mob moves from that spot right? Or am I thinking of a different line of spells?