Nothing you have said is new information, and I stand by the fact Prismatic Gem is a sub-par ability (to be clear, it is functional and certainly better than some abilities like Frost’s 1, but that’s not saying much).
It feeding status arcanes is meh, as are almost all the status arcanes excluding Cascadia Flare, which only goes on status secondaries that can feed it anyway.
The main benefit of Prismatic Gem is the boost to status chance. Status duration doesn’t matter that much (most enemies will be dead long before it matters and you can just refresh most statuses well before they expire anyway) and the beams are neat but only affect a single enemy at a time, which is really bad in a game where you’re killing hundreds of enemies per mission. However, it has several issues from being stationary and having poor range (I fully understand that it will hit enemies inside the circle and hit enemies if you stand inside the circle, the circle is still small).
The extension to Fractured Blast is meh. As stated, enemies don’t last long, so the added duration is meaningless.
While Mecha Set can help, that’s a lot of wasted mod slots to make a sub-par ability effective and even then it’s not that much of a help as it’s only hitting a group once every 15 seconds. Still a pretty bad job at doing things to enemies.
As for your point about it doing solid damage in Circulum (Circulus, you mean?), it doesn’t. It can kill enemies, sure, but that’s hardly stunning praise when it’s super slow and one at a time. Unless you mean Duviri Circuit, in which case I already said I’m excluding Circuit, and I will note now that it is because the devs have openly stated Circuit throws balance out the window (and indeed it does, and it’s only a tiny portion of the game).
Your comparison to Crystallize is warranted, given that both abilities are not fantastic, but Crystallize has multiple things over Prismatic Gem. Crystallize stuns many important enemies, from Acolytes to Disruptors, and offers a weakpoint that grants excessive damage to kill those very sturdy enemies. This is a niche use, but it is a better use than more status on enemies that are already dead. It is slow, true, but so is constantly recasting Prismatic Gem if you are on the move.
You can prefer what you like, but that doesn’t change what is and isn’t strong. Prismatic Gem is sub-par. It’s not terrible, but it could do with a bit of an extra boost.
Nothing you have said is new information, and I stand by the fact Prismatic Gem is a sub-par ability (to be clear, it is functional and certainly better than some abilities like Frost’s 1, but that’s not saying much).
It feeding status arcanes is meh, as are almost all the status arcanes excluding Cascadia Flare, which only goes on status secondaries that can feed it anyway.
The main benefit of Prismatic Gem is the boost to status chance. Status duration doesn’t matter that much (most enemies will be dead long before it matters and you can just refresh most statuses well before they expire anyway) and the beams are neat but only affect a single enemy at a time, which is really bad in a game where you’re killing hundreds of enemies per mission. However, it has several issues from being stationary and having poor range (I fully understand that it will hit enemies inside the circle and hit enemies if you stand inside the circle, the circle is still small).
The extension to Fractured Blast is meh. As stated, enemies don’t last long, so the added duration is meaningless.
While Mecha Set can help, that’s a lot of wasted mod slots to make a sub-par ability effective and even then it’s not that much of a help as it’s only hitting a group once every 15 seconds. Still a pretty bad job at doing things to enemies.
As for your point about it doing solid damage in Circulum (Circulus, you mean?), it doesn’t. It can kill enemies, sure, but that’s hardly stunning praise when it’s super slow and one at a time. Unless you mean Duviri Circuit, in which case I already said I’m excluding Circuit, and I will note now that it is because the devs have openly stated Circuit throws balance out the window (and indeed it does, and it’s only a tiny portion of the game).
Your comparison to Crystallize is warranted, given that both abilities are not fantastic, but Crystallize has multiple things over Prismatic Gem. Crystallize stuns many important enemies, from Acolytes to Disruptors, and offers a weakpoint that grants excessive damage to kill those very sturdy enemies. This is a niche use, but it is a better use than more status on enemies that are already dead. It is slow, true, but so is constantly recasting Prismatic Gem if you are on the move.
You can prefer what you like, but that doesn’t change what is and isn’t strong. Prismatic Gem is sub-par. It’s not terrible, but it could do with a bit of an extra boost.