How powerful are AoE spells?

[icyrisi]

I know eventually you get an AoE stanza for magic... how powerful is it? Can you actually kill mobs in 1 hit, or is using it a death sentence on anything but lower level mobs.

[mehanson]

Area of Effect spells in Ryzom are a bit different than you may be used to.

The nearest thing to an area of effect spell I have seen is a spell cast with either Bomb, Spray, or Riccochet option/effect added to it. In all cases, it affects the number of potential targets you may hit within a set range, starting with 2 targets, and moving up. Its not a "hit everything within x meters of center", although there does seem to be a reduced effectiveness on the second and succeeding targets (I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong here).

Kill in one hit has more to do with the level of the basic spell used as compared to the target's level and ability to resist it, "bomb" does not make the spell more powerfull against a single target.

Now, a point to remember, if you are "bomb" nuking a field of clopper, every clopper you hit will attack you unless it is killed inthat first hit, so it CAN be somewhat suicidal to use against a mob that's near or above your level.

[kiexa]

also bomb healing is used daily by homins at higher levels when in bit teams, on boss mob hunts you`l often see 4 or 5 people standing shoulder to shoulder with bomb healers and nukers, very useful.

AoE elemental spells are used by some in outpost battles also, it causes more damage to more targets overall.

[rushin]

heal AoE's are very effective and useful, damage dealing ones have some use in PvP but not in PvE unless you like challenging hunting and use them to pull

[totnkopf]

heal AoE's are very effective and useful, damage dealing ones have some use in PvP but not in PvE unless you like challenging hunting and use them to pull

Using them in PvE makes for some of the fastest XP around, specially at high levels. Bomb hunting plod groups are the only way to go, in regards to plod teams. If thats not possible, bombing kincher is still faster than taking 1 or 2 plods at a time. Its all about having good healers/nukers and team work

[targosz]

But have anyone noticed change about AoE elemental and healing bombs- or it's just me hadn't spotted this before:
1. I'm using bomb heal - seems the power of spell is accumulated - ie if I heal 1k hp with bomb for 6k means I distribute 1k*6 people
2. I'm using bomb elemental- seems power of spells added into action is divided?!- ie I nuke with 1,8k dmg and every target being hit by 1,8k/6=300 dmg...

I'm both healer and nuker and I'm finnding bomb healing as the choice for everyday life but after thinking about bomb nuking I find it useless cause by the time I kill group of mobs or players I could have nuke more targets effectively.
Aha and the last thing..I remeber during EP2 when Kye or Magic were hunting diggers and that days they were able to kill few diggers with 1-2 bombs properly set..so I'm asking WAS it changed w/o any info???