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It's worth mentioning that it has to go through resistance/magic armor for each damage application as well.

It is worth mentioning but I don't think an average character sans a zeran is going to ever reach an amount of magic armor that matters in this case, there is currently one torso armor that reaches a large amount of magic armor, considerable enough to reduce the damage of blood spike to even below single target spells in its current state.



Consider for a moment, how much more damage Blood Spike does than Libegrande which is one of the highest scaling evoker spells, this is against an arena combatant which had around 5 or 6 magic armor and 40 res.

When it comes to single target spells vs multi target spells, the multi target spell only has to go through magic armor one more time than the other, and unless you can reduce the damage to below their magic armor value (Usually 5-10) which is unrealistic, it would almost always be worth it to use blood spike over any single target spell, because the single target spell has to go through the exact same defenses that multi target spells do, its not like pre-GR where RES was a fla value.

Also consider that the current multi target spells haven't really been seen as too broken in terms of damage (Averaging around 70/70 elemental scaling), the only exceptions to this were hexer spells that scaled primarily off of defensive stats just like blood spike and scarlet twister do, Black Bubble and Wretched Oil values had to be nerfed as well because of this.

Kiseki above my post basically reflected my thoughts here, as I stated in the OP, Scarlet Twister is fine as its current scaling in my opinion if it has a longer cooldown, while Blood Spike should have lower scaling for the consistency in which it can be output, I'd even consider Kunai's suggestion of having its cooldown removed if the damage goes down.

Ftr here are the base amounts vs a prinny using the same character, 85 Ice ATK and 66 Water ATK, if my water attack were higher (as I do not have the talent or any boosts to it) it'd do much more damage than this.