PB (lvl 6 necro spell) needs some review/further testing

Tried using barrage before lvl 250 and it didn't seem to be helpful. So I thought let's wait until wearing the pro necro gear. Tried again at lvl 250 and here are my encounters.

Been going to Heroic FD, where Mass Drain works quite well there. I typically get around 1500 - 2000 dmg for mass drain, whereas poisson barrage gets around 100 -200 dmg and the DoT really isn't helpful. I imagined that PB is a first round spell that I would see some nice results. However, I find myself taking longer casting PB and better off using MD.

For a lvl6 spell that costs 150 mc, I find it not useful in any way. What confuses is the fact that PB and MD are both necro spells, one costs 150 and the other costs 15mc. One would imagine that PB should be 10x as useful given the cost. That is not the case in any way. On the contrary, MD for me is far better.

Would love to hear the experiences of others? Please share lvl and gear. Does it become better at expert? Or are we supposed to use it in some other way that I fail to see now.

Thanks :)

(ps: loving prestige - thank you!)

In terms of what would make sense to me I guess PB should have same dmg like MD but then include DoT effect at a XX% of initial dmg. As it stands now, the dmg effect of PB first round is just not worth it.

I heartily agree that poison barrage is currently not worth casting. I'll tell you what I expected when I saw that my level 6 poison spell was 75x the mana of poison bolt: I expected 75 poison bolts, spread out randomly against the group of mobs I'm facing. That's probably overkill, but what about making it a 50 mana spell that casts 25 bolts? As a necro's level 6 spell, it should be worth the trouble to get there.

While I'm here, I'll suggest that a level 7 necro spell could be that wavy green line thing that cows cast. The one that heaps loads of poison on you and stuns you for up to 14 rounds. That'd be nice to have… :)