Alexander.Inuyasha said:
anyone tried Immanence with a Quickspell proc from the +2 set/Apoc? And is this a viable solo Option for SCHnuking? or am i just going to waste charges when i should be wasting them on my enhanced Ebb;s :/
Ive used it and was highly disapointed that it wasnt like Chain Affinity and soon after gave up on it....
so any advice to the usefullness of this stratagem would be MUCH appreciated.
Being able to pull off a full skill chain with just your just your own spells is incredibly difficult and to do it ending in a T4 or T5 spell is living the dream. But there are some things you can do to help in your endeavor and if you manage to succeed you'll be doing an incredible amount of damage. Why? Because to pull it off you're going to have to have top notch macros, alot of skill, and gear pimped out enough to cast the T4/5 in time.
With that in mind go put on your red mage sub and find all your fast cast gear because you're going to need it. You'll be hard pressed to end the sc in a t4/5 nuke without initiating the cast in your Scholar Loafers, Argute M.Board, +2Magian staff, and any other fastcast gear you can find (Loq./Grip).
Your macros will also need to be set up properly so you start casting in the fast cast gear and you swap it out to nuking gear halfway. You can do this by hitting another macro, using window macros, or spell cast but it is rather essential. In addition you have to know what skill chains Water>Ice makes impaction so you have to set up your macros to easily get from water to ice which can be on the same pallet or you can have a clever /macro set # command.
The real issue with the self skill chain is that hitting immanence macro then your Nuke macro takes too long. Make sure your macros close enough on your pallet so you're not going switching between odd keystrokes. As for using additional stratagems like the fast cast or damage+ well... good luck!
Another good use for this stratagem is simply knowing with what it skill chains. Sidewinder, Raging Rush, Retribution, and others can all open induration. If you're on top of your game and have the above mentioned fast cast gear and macros a 5k Bliz4 makes and induration that can easily do 4k and leave you open to follow up with a bliz3 MB.
Between Ebullience and Immanence, Immanence will almost always do more damage if done correctly it will likely do about 90% of what your bliz4 does.
As for use of the Apoc atma I'll just, say you can get lucky from time to time but more often than not it will just mess up your timing in regards to Immanence. When I play on Nin it's a double edge sword sometimes I get an instant Ichi cast that saves my butt other times it procs when I'm expecting to get hit and results in me having to recast it because it didn't overwrite my Ni shadow.
Edit: I posted a SS, on my profile, of a SC i did during my Ice staff trial . It's a simple Retribution>Bliz4 skillchain but it should give you an idea on the potential.