Mage damage is damn fine.

4269h, 3653m, 3540e, 10p ex-
Kaervas's aura of weapons rebounding disappears.
Kaervas points his staff at you and it swells, rapidly discharging a large
boulder that hurls into your body, smashing flesh and bone.
2907h, 3653m, 3540e, 10p ex- <-----1362 damage


Demesne damage.

1806h, 3692m, 3540e, 0p exk-
A violent tremor rocks the land, causing the earth to shake and the ground to
buck beneath your feet.
A deep, foreboding hum emanates from the tainted earth, and then you are
suddenly slammed into the ground by an irresistable force.
Hundreds of stones rain down from the skies, blocking the exits.
Dust clouds rise as the earth shifts and sharp rocks slide and bounce, some
flying into the air. You yelp in pain as several of them smash into you,
bruising your flesh and cutting your skin.
609h, 3692m, 3540e, 0p exkp- <----1197 damage

Bah.

He does have champion arti, but meh. I agree.

Um. You do way, way more damage than that, and mages have way, way less max health than you. All seems fair to me!

The only lame thing about that log is stacking tremors/lodestone and rockslide, you shouldn't be able to do that.

The reason why rockslide did so much damage is because you were prone on the ground. It deals much less if you are standing up. Kaervas either timed his effects right, or it was a fluke that you became prone and the rockslide occured immediately afterwards.

thats an exact quote from when I walked into his demesned room.

... except you shouldn't be able to do that. If you were supposed to, then rockslide would always do the high amount of damage.

Random demesne effects are maybe half as good as timed effects. Demesnes are easy when they are out of sync.

What are you talking about? Haven't you read any of Revan's posts? Geomancer's staff is a joke and they still need damage upgrades.

Putrefaction is a wonderful thing.

So what about the other 10 guilds without Putrefaction?

I'm sure you don't need me to list all the things that defend against physical damage.

Right, we have other methods to lower damage, but that doesn't negate the fact that some Geomancers still believe they don't do enough damage when it is plainly obvious that you are managing 1300 damage against Ixion, a Knight with Trans resilience and fullplate, or Revan doing 1000 against Shiro. Not to mention that almost every fighting Mage nowaday time their demesne.

I think the damage is fine...Revan just likes to complain.

Don't need any talent to time it. Just geocast earthquake and you'll get lodestone/rockslide hitting together.

I don't have a problem with my staff damage.

But Ceres is right...it doesn't take any talent to time it...since you just cast rockslide and lodestone after you see tremors tick.

EDIT:

Nevermind, I'm a moron.

So any chance we can stop people from timing demesne effects? It's really rediculous that the demesne can passively do over 1000 damage every 8 seconds, not to mention virtually unblockable.

You have barkskin.

The biggest hinderence would be to drink a sip of love...that slows mages down a lot IMO. Since we have to keep rejecting you, meanwhile our demesnes aren't hitting.