Fireball (in General)

Given the current debate on Fireball, i figured i'd pitch my opinion as well as a possible solution.

I do agree that a skill on the caster to reduce splash would be beneficial so here is the basic idea of my suggestion.

Redirection
Focuses the caster's DD more closely, reducing its splash ability.
Redirection effect is related to the current DD level trained and only affects the CoC and FB DDs.
Reduces all splash damage dealt to opponents and allies by up to 50%. This damage is dealt instead to the first minion in the order.
For maximum effect, redirection is to be trained at 1/4 of DD level (possibly 1/3 if this is too low).
At 1/8 (or 1/6) it will be at 0.25 effect
At 1/16 (or 1/12) it will be 0.125 effect and so on.

This would certainly provide a lot more game play options, in that it also adds additional functions in damaging opposing minions.

It is also reasonable to remove the splash damage reduction to enemy minions and just do it for allies, making it only relevant to be used on a FB minion.

Please feel free to discuss the relevance of this suggestion :D

My main problem with DD effecting Skills is; Who would actually bother to use them on anything but familiars? You're losing out on up to 25% extra damage overall by training the skill to max instead of just pumping it straight into your DD and losing possible AMF resistance at the same time on an actual minion.

The spread DD spells are already the most damaging when hitting a single minion (CoC 110%, FB 65% vs SG 56% and MM 46%) focused damage is the main point of single target DD's but this would make the SF complete garbage compared to the FF which would now be doing 39/6.5/6.5/6.5/6.5 vs MM's 0/0/0/0/46 and would make EF's completely obsolete with CoC's 66/11/11/11/11 vs 65/0/0/0/0.

So thats definitely a no to the reducing splash on opposing minions.

Would it be usable as a purely redirection of damage to allies at effect of .75 then?

i think fireball could have a similar skill that archers have (archery) kind of skill

I had a thought about AC 0 fire armor.

Been there, done that. Not much support:

http://www.carnageblender.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=002glD