Ok I did it. My work almost canned me (j/k) but I did it.
Forgotten Scroll Lightning Shock drops off of the Epic bosses only. Not in Hellbound, not anywhere as of now.
I believe the boss it drops off of is Frint or Antharas. I was not in clan when they got the drop so not sure who it dropped off of exactly.
This skill has again changed the dynamics of my playstyle.
I remember leveling up pre 76 and doing mostly melee.
Then once I got deep into the 70's and acquiring a ton of new nukes, I became more nuker heavy, even though I never abandoned my melee skills.
Anyway, time for the juicy details.
Cast time? Pretty **** fast. Not instantaneous, but just about as fast as Steal Divinity. Let's say about 1 second cast time depending on buffs.
Re-use? I was really wondering about this. I remember way back when on the PTS and I could of swore it had a pretty fast re-use. No more wondering. It is around 10 seconds with COV.
Is it spammable? No obviously but it can be chained.
The re-use with COV of 10 seconds lasts as long as the Para!
The Para last 10 darn seconds.
Land rate, awesome. If your fully buffed and you cancel the target once, it is going to land and land.
It lands on all classes.
I hope I use this word correctly, but it has a synergistic affect with Lightning Barrier (lvl 80 skill). Lightning Barrier triggers more often then not, on top of that you have a aoe 10 second para. What is not to like?
Do you have to have the person targeted? Nope. It is an aoe. Now, I still need to test this out more for more details.
I currently have +4 WIT and the skill lands like crazy. I will be removing the DYE to test some things out. I figure if I can lock up the targets for 10 seconds, might as well hit them hard as possible.
For the PVE lovers. I aoe with a Saint Spear 150 Dark in MoS. It is almost as effective as Seal of Blockade pre-nerf. I had 8 Angels on me, my HP would get dangerously low, I could Chain lightning shock and keep them para-d for the duration of the aoe.
MP cost/usage 52 MP NOT bad at all.
This is icing on the cake for an already fun class. Now I can see how this class is an Enforcer Class currently on the Korean Servers. It is second only to the tanks.
No SP was required, just a right click of the scroll to register the skill.
It has already saved my but. Last night as I tried to get out of deleveling range, an untagged enemy nuker began to blast me, I was able to para both him and the mobs and destroy him. Yes, I had a big grin on my face.
This skill gets my stamp of approval. Yet another useful skill for the Soulhound!!!
I used to play an Dominator and I had Seal of Blockade.
SoB was really overpowered , almost a broken skill. The difference is Lightning shock has a much shorter duration, only 10 seconds comapred to Seal of Blockade which was at least 30 seconds if not longer (sorry i have a bad memory) could of been a minute.
One thing that I know all Soulbreakers have felt they lacked was a Stun skill. Off the top of my most melee classes have a True stun. We do not. Have you ever been Stun locked??? I have and it sucks. I look at Lightning Shock as my counter to such stuns.
I do not know if any of the other server have the 81 skill yet.
I think if it is going to get nerfed, it will be because of the Korean player base, not ours.
Anyway, I will enjoy it as long as I have it.
In my opinion, it is powerful but not overpowered. ;)
Oh I almost forgot, It does damage as well. It did 680 something damage on a lvl 80 fully buffed STS. So, just an added bonus.
Well don't get too excited. It's a Raid Boss skill book. Perhaps mabe 5% of the player base will be able ot ever see this skill. Maybe less ;)
They will probably change this in future but who knows. For now, I'll be content with level 80 Lightning Barrier. I've wanted this and only this for over a year...
RB are constantly killed... and 90% of the time this spellbook won't be useful for the lucky guy that gets it into his inventory, so eventually we will see it in Aden/Giran... it will be expensive, yeah, but not impossible to get XD