Most efficient non linked single target damage spell?

My build is crazy fun right now..but it does almost no damage against single targets. Furthermore, attacking a single target with an actual attack will make me almost commit suicide with my blood magic.

So, i'm thinking about trying to find the best nonlinked spell to use in these cases. Was originally going to go traps for single target damage, but I don't see much damage coming from them for bosses other than fire trap which I already use..and that kills too slowly.

What would you suggest if you had to pick the hardest hitting single target spell without links?

Every spell unsupported is always going to be lackluster pretty much. That's how it's designed.

EK leveled up with passive spell damage nodes hit's pretty hard but that's spread out.

I guess Firestorm? That's still AOE...

I dunno, all the single target spells unlinked are terrible.

Bear trap is pretty good... but why would you want to use a single target damage spell unlinked? It's always going to be better with supports, obviously. Why would an attack be making you commit suicide with blood magic? The hp costs of using skills with BM should be covered by your regen, so it shouldn't even be an issue.

Depends on the build.

Molten Shell I find DEVASTATING.

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realatomicpanda wrote:

Bear trap is pretty good... but why would you want to use a single target damage spell unlinked? It's always going to be better with supports, obviously. Why would an attack be making you commit suicide with blood magic? The hp costs of using skills with BM should be covered by your regen, so it shouldn't even be an issue.

I have 5 attacks per second, any attack skills will eat up my life fast unless its aoe, but any physical damage is almost zero as well.

Suppose I should post more info about it.



Thats the bulk of it. I could have it linked, but right now i'm having a hard enough time upgrading my gear without worrying about links. Maybe a 3L single target spell, but then the life cost starts to get higher.

Its not really that often I have issues..just the occasional boss or rare.

Bear trap is the highest single target damage in the game.

Next to that for single target dps I would reccomend frenzy for rangers or Heavy strike for melee.

As far as castering... Arc. Its level 20 damage range surpasses other spells 46–867 and it naturally chains.

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SL4Y3R wrote:

Depends on the build.

Molten Shell I find DEVASTATING.

I always wanted to use it, and it would synergize with my fire damage..but i've always found it kinda meh. Maybe I just don't know how to use it properly. Seems you have to cast it a dozen times to kill something and it takes forever to cast.

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ruiner098 wrote:

Bear trap is the highest single target damage in the game.

Next to that for single target dps I would reccomend frenzy for rangers or Heavy strike for melee.

As far as castering... Arc. Its level 20 damage range surpasses other spells 46–867 and it naturally chains.

OOO bear trap seems nice..Never really looked at it, I assumed it took weapon damage into account for some reason. So my bow wouldn't gimp it. I'll have to try this.

Molten Shell wears off too quickly.

Worthless imo, fuck recasting that slow as hell skill seriously though.

BEAR TRAP