It has the same cast time and cast delay as meteor storm,but seems far weaker, they don't stack on top of other magnus (really sucks compared to meteor storm when partying with a clown though it's fun to see those two skills work together at the same time, despite the high damage per "wave" as the skill descript calls it), it really requires an efficient and dedicated tank and good teamwork to pull it off. if the tank moves and ME hits the monsters, the priest is dead because of it's lack of vit and the fact that it doesn't stop the monsters in their tracks like stun from meteors or freeze and Knockback from Storm Gust.
LoV has been called the weakest out of all the AoE's, It doesn't deal very high damage but makes up for it with a high number of hits and chance to blind. I mainly love this because it looks Much more powerful than it actually is <3
I'm not sure which is stronger between Storm Gust and Meteor Storm,
Storm Gust is nice, It affects the entire area, and its guaranteed to freeze on the 3rd hit, unless they're undead, or is a boss monster. Boss monsters Cannot be knocked back, and are status immune, so Storm Gust is especially strong against these types, they don't move, they don't freeze, they take all of the damage. Storm gust does not stack with other storm gusts, meaning if two storm gusts are casted on an area, only one of them will do damage.
Meteor Storm is nice, and I prefer it because I hate the normality of Storm gust, it's expected that you'll have it maxed wherever you go as a wiz. It doesn't move your targets, and it has a chance to stun them. It's a little wierd, it doesn't hit the whole area all at once, it has a bunch of random tiny little AoE's inside your big one where the meteors crash down and crush your enemies. I prefer this when you have a tank and don't want to keep shoving monsters away from the tank. When multiple Meteor storms are casted on top of each other, the damage from all of the meteor storms stack, making a bard with bragi a wizards best friend, reduce the aftercast delay, reduce the cast time, and let millions of burning boulders pulverize your enemies into submission.
Magnus Excocisimus... It only affects demon race monsters and undead property things. That limiting factor alone hurts a lot and has a painful after cast delay where you cannot buff or heal, but the damage it does can easily get up in the numbers, and with large mobs, the holiness often lags you. Sadly, Magnus doesn't stack on top of other casts.
There's a few items out there made for priests on this matter, however, they are either impossible to obtain or at least highly improbable Spiritual Ring/Divine Cross and Spiritual Ring/ Clip or Rosary combo's really help with the damage output of Magnus, gives almost, if not the same amount of dex as a quad drops carded rod, and reduces 25% of all damage from demons and undeads in place of the shield because the divine cross is a 2 handed staff. However, Spiritual Ring comes from 2 High level MVP's Fallen Bishop Hibram and Ifrit, and those require parties to take down. Possibly High level well equipped guild parties in which you're probably not the first on the priority list in getting the said item. and Getting the Divine Cross from Skeggiolds is Just a pain, but next to the clip/Rosary/Rosary[1], it's probably the easiest thing you can get.
Magnus is pretty powerful, and hasn't been nerfed in any way, it's just... neglected...
Gravity did have one other equip that might make things a tiny bit easier.
http://ratemyserver.net/index.php?iname=...h&itype=-1
The slotted holy stick, which is to my knowledge, Unobtainable. Why? I don't know.
Most parties I've been in where ME could actually do some damage, they'd rather have me as a healer and buffer than an actual damage output. Most likely because of the crippling aftercast delay after ME
I agree wholeheartedly that there's a lack of serious ME-priests on the server, however people just prefer to stick to what they know that works, than to try other, different and possibly more fun methods. Not to mention that people probably don't like to be that squishy only to be uber strong against 2 races/elements in the entire game.