The best spell in the entire game

I was just wondering, what do you think is the best single spell in the game. I don't know if poll will have enough space so post it and I guess debate in the comments.

 

Vanish is so op, and so does heal

 

Vanish or heal, the rest are no match

 

Arrow Storm's gotta be up there
also whoever voted totem is wrong

 

prob between vanish cause obvious, heal bc obvious again, and escape bc I like my archer main speeeeeed

 

Vanish is broken, heal is really good. Totem has the argument because it is needed to cast other Shaman spells but even then it can't stand against vanish and heal

 

It's either Vanish or Heal, no ifs and or buts.
That being said, I lean towards heal, primarily because vanish is the key to Assassins kit, I think the fact that it is the cornerstone of the playstyle makes it a lot more understandable balance-wise, whereas Mage kinda just has Heal. That being said, I think 3rd place is probably Arrow Storm, 4th is Arrow Shield.

 

Heal and Escape 100%

 

Definitely heal, it allows you to cheese your way through basically any form of endgame content with the right amount of mana and low spell costs.

 

mfs sleeping on arrow shield. literal invulnerability against melee mobs, massive dmg potential, +1 block or so range extension (which can let you shoot through walls iirc)

 

cant decide between vanish or heals so i'll just put it this way
-vanish best for combat
-heal best for sustain

 

If we are talking about the most powerful spell on its own: Heal. Unless someone is getting one shot anyway, you can cheese the game really hard with it, especially with a dedicated heal set-up in group content.

If we are talking about the most synergetic/value spell: Vanish.

 

Cci be like:

 

Neutral attack

 

If I remember correctly normal attacks are spells as well so that

 

Taking a completely different approach than "most op" let's think about the "best" spell in terms of game design. Which spell is best designed?

A spell is, in my eyes, well-designed if it:
- is easy to comprehend

arrow shield feels like it has some jank with hit detection and from what I've heard and seen very few people are aware of how much damage the spell can do. Making it too hard to comprehend.

- can be used in many scenarios

Haul, even though you can later start flying by cycling haul and totem, is by far the mobility spell with the least utility unless you go with a lategame spellspam build. Making it my least favorite mobility spell to use (although very cool in concept). An extra bonus point for spells that also have nich cases, like war scream with its knockback.

- is used in different ways by newbies and people who know what they are doing (has a learning curve)

newbies heal when on lower health and people who know what they are doing heal when on lower health. The only "learning" curve for heal is mana management, which counts for all spells.

- is fun to use

war scream for example is in most builds used just for the passive buffs, a real shame because the large knockback projectile can be fun. But in reality it's rarely used that way.

- does not bug out sometimes

"try moving away from blocks"


Now, which spells do, in my eyes, keep up with this standard?
Bash and Vanish (though I think a case could be made for charge and multihit, I don't think they're used differently enough by people who know what they are doing)

Which scores higher where?
Easy to comprehend:
Both very easy

Many scenarios:
Both the most used spells in a spellspam build

Different ways:
uppercancelling and attacking with spells out of vanish

fun:
vanish is more fun imo

bugs:
not really, but uppercancelling with bash relies more on ping.

So my trophy for best designed spell goes to:
Vanish

 

still extends range and still has massive dmg potential

plus most enemies are not cci, and even if they are, you outrange them as archer :shrug:

 

I guess I need to replay assassin again bc vanish was not my first thought.

 

Eh I main orange lily archer so that’s prob why I don’t consider it nearly as useful as say vanish or heal
I do like it a lot for stuff like running around and not getting hit by every mob to ever exist tho so it’s not a bad spell

 

Vanish is fundamentally broken. Being able to completely de-aggro for more or less free in a game that already has jank AI breaks almost any game balance whatsoever. Hell, blind immunity barely impacted Assassin because Vanish can break mob AI that hard. This is not mentioning that you get a funny 80% damage boost and stupid good mobility for anything that is not flying around the map (lootrunning lol).
Heal is self-explanatory.

Personally, I consider Vanish to be the better of the two just because of what content I care more about. Heal is dogshit earlygame (1-36), pretty meh midgame (36-68), and usually overkill for me in anything that isn't Nexus of Light/The Canyon Colossus depending on my build. Vanish just breaks the majority of solo encounters so hard it feels like cheating. If you value endgame content more, Heal is probably better.

As an honorable mention, let's talk about Spin Attack. Its damage is instant, making it have relatively high DPS when spammed, it clears debuffs, it completely shuts down melee mobs due to the stun, and it has a pretty sizeable AoE all things considered. Going back to the stun, it also ignores slowness immunity just like Uproot (I do not know why), making it outright better than any other slowness applier in the game a large portion of the time. The blind isn't that impactful due to Vanish, but it still does act as a safety net and can help clown on the game even more when it does work. Stealing buffs has niche usage (mainly PvP but like who cares) but it doesn't detract from Spin at all. I certainly wouldn't put it on the same level as Vanish, but yeah I'm surprised to not see it being mentioned yet.