Concentrated Blast

Concentrated Blast is a (channeled) ability found in the Ability Book. It is a basic Magic ability which requires level 8 Magic to use and can only work while dual-wielding magic weapons. It has a cooldown of 5 seconds.

The execution time for this ability is 3.6 seconds. Since single-hit, non-channeled abilities take 1.8 seconds to execute, this ability is at least as good as two non-channeled basic abilities, both doing 150% damage, used one after another (ignoring adrenaline gain). In fact concentrated blast is somewhat better than that since it gets a boost in critical% and an ability can be used simultaneously as the last hit of concentrated blast with good timing, rather than having to wait the normal 0.6 seconds between when a player presses an ability to when the ability actually deals damage.

Because of this ability having a long-execution time as well as being better than almost all basics in terms of dps, dual-wielding mages can almost sustain an ability rotation using only Wrack and Concentrated Blast. If using Ice barrage with Wrack, Wrack will always do up to 157% damage which means even on basic abilities mages can sustain an average weapon damage of up to ~150% damage every hit, making dual wielding mages very powerful in general. However, 2h mages can match the damage per second of dual wielding mages by taking advantage of powerful thresholds.