Funeral Pyre of Kelador  

Trivial on this spell is 227 - not 200

Bought it yesterday on prexus for 3745pp. Lucky me.

Lucy has bad math, Funeral Pyre = 10 ticks or 2610 total dmg w/o any focus or extension. Do not reply and confuse people by arguing with this post until you cast the spell with dot dmg enabled and hand count the ticks.

I love this spell. It is almost never resisted except in the case of same major named mob. If I only had one DoT to put up (excluding a lifetap one), this would be it so far. Does very good dmg and seldom resisted; what more could ya' want?

Blood of thule is a more powerful, more efficient spell than this, but not by an awful lot, and here's the kicker: this has a -100 resist check, where BoT has -50. If you don't have HEAVY resist debuffs on the mobs, then you're going to end up spending more mana overall on BoT than on FPoK.

When that extra mana can be put into a kill-shot nuke, you begin to see why I would care :)

However, in general practice I'll probably switch to BoT once I'm 65, and bring BOTH up for boss mobs (keeping FD handy for that rather serious agro I'll be generating).

Right now, I'm only 61 and I just grabbed this puppy for 20k... can't wait to get home tonight and try it out!

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yes, we get a 2300pt dot at 65. it only takes Blood of Thule 42 seconds to work too, and with focii itll be even more powerful. however, hear me out before you cry foul.

the level 60 dot does 2160 damage in 54 seconds, at 450 mana cost. the 65 dot does 2300ish for 500ish mana, in 42 seconds. fire dots dont get resisted nearly as much on normal mobs as poison ones do. i notice i generally have to use my Scent line of spells before trying to land Ebolt or Neurotoxin on a lot of things, or have a shaman malo it or whatnot. on sheer resists for poison dots, you use a lot MORE mana that you normally would when using FP< as it isnt resisted nearly as much.

also, look at the spell class each uses. 65 dot uses conjuration, a specialization very few necros went with if at all. so most of the time we will use the full 500ish mana to cast this spell. however funeral pyre is alteration, a spell spec most necros went with. its our lifetaps, our pet buffs, our stat taps, our better dots.. we went with alteration for the most part. so a lot of the time, ESPECIALLY with spell casting mastery, we use less than the 450 mana price tag listed.

finally, Blood of Thule is a level 65 spell.. focus items for the 61+ spells (and i mean good ones too, not those crappy player made ones) are very scarce unless youre in a high level guild that does VT or higher planes. Funeral Pyre is level 60, and therefore can be used with older world focus items i.e. Circlet of the Falinkan, Bone Clasped Girdle, Neverderia's Left Eye, Gem Encrusted Ring, etc. vessels to make this spell more effective are more plentiful than with BoT.

i am not yet 65, and do not have this spell yet. however i DO have funeral pyre, and i see this spell like i saw having a car. how the hell did i ever survive without one?