Looking for some help with a Fire/Wither spell repertoire (1.21.1)

[tired oyster]

Hey all! Im quite new to Ars and im in the endgame spell crafting phase where i just wanna make some cool spells that /dont/ heal my enemies (heal frame skip doesnt work anymore apparently lmao)

Considering Iframe skips seem impossible in this version, im trying to optimize some spells to fit the vibe of Fire magic + Wither magic

Currently we have Ars Nouveau, Ars Elemental, Not Enough Glyphs

My current go to spell is:
Homing Projectile -> Hex -> Harm -> Amp -> Conflagrate -> Amp -> Flare -> Amp -> Wither -> Item Pickup

Ive been told this doesnt really do much considering the iframe skip? I've tried to make some of the classic Wall + Promogate homing projectiles for maximum calamity but they dont seem to work!

just any advice on how to make damaging spells that dont suck

Also! the gear im using:
Ars Elemental Fire Gear (Pyromaniacs) with Kindling 3
Focus of Necromancy (Can swap to focus of Fire)

Much appreciated <3

[tired estuary]

One simple way to deal with iframes is to just add some delays in between damage components. So ignite->flare->delay->conflagrate, for example, would hit with both the flare and the conflagrate

[blazing dragon]

What pack is this? Or if it's a custom one, what all addons u got?

[tired oyster]

its just a custom modpack! and the addons we have are just Ars Elemental and Not Enough Glyphs (though i think we might add ars additions soon?)

[prime night]

Also, do you have the Relics mod in there?

[tired oyster]

no relics mod x

[blazing dragon]

^^

Ah, rip

[prime night]

Welp. That pretty much means that Damage Damage of whatever kind of Damage you prefer is going to be your weapon of choice

[tired estuary]

Is the goal to do some fire damage in style?

[tired oyster]

the goal is to have like a "calamity magic" vibe where its like,,,, wither-fire

even if i have to shoehorn a wither glyph in a standard fire spell for the vibe i'd be happy lmao

[tired estuary]

I have a spell I'm rather fond of. Not the most damage, but imo it looks cool and is functional enough for my needs. I shoehorned in the wither for you, wear a thread of kindling (and ofc stuff like pyromancer armor and fire focus). You could drop a for a less constant stream of projectiles in order to get a , which wouldn't increase damage but would increase the amount of fire carnage

[tired oyster]

OOOOO THANK YOU

[tired estuary]

the iron golem takes about 200 damage with the wither

maybe 250 after wither has run its course

[tired oyster]

that is so cool

[tired estuary]

yeah I love it 😄

[tired oyster]

thank you so much thats siiiick!!

[tired estuary]

here's the code, just copy this and paste it into your spellbook (hopefully it'll work, sometimes the copy/paste functionality has broken from older to newer version I've noticed). Modify it to your hearts content, of course! Happy to answer questions about how it works, in case it's unclear

including the code cause then it includes the spell style choices

and here's the version on steroids. Look up into the sky, cast, then look at your target. Warnings that there's the potential for lag problems with all the lingers and projectile propagations it creates, definitely do not cast multiple times in a row. But this version also lets you get that flare in for extra extra fire everywhere (i actually hate flare because of the magefire)

(i don't use this version much, so I don't have spell style fully set up for it)