Yes, i had know that, but i didn't know that the lunar gem stacked.
But weren't you the one who spent months ranting and raving because the devs were taking so long to fix the Legendary Dreadnought action boost bug? And now you're complaining because they're fixing another similar bug? What is it—do they only have to fix the bugs *you* don't use?
Only with solar gems. We still don't have Lunar Crit Damage or Lunar Spell Crit Chance.
Just to clarify: Call Lightning Storm is just a buff and not a persistent cloud/wall spell like Torc described. And again, while it's possible the developers don't want the mastery feat to work on the Call Lightning Storm buff, I don't see why it shouldn't. Technically, it's just a buff that makes your character cast a spell on a random target for its duration, and each proc is technically a direct damage spell—much like the standard Call Lightning spell.
Call lightning storm is a persistent spell. You cast it and persists for a long duration doing damage over and over. That's pretty much a textbook definition there. Personally I think SSG should also prevent call lightning storm from snap shotting effects; it should recheck what it procs each time it fires of a lightning bolt based off what you're currently wearing.
To my knowledge, if we talk about 'persistent spells' in DDO, we don't talk about buffs; we talk about clouds, walls, webs, etc.—effects that linger in the environment. You would be right if I were asking for Storm of Vengeance to trigger the mastery feat.
Just for the record, I actually never used the dragonmark on any of my builds on a live server, just for testing on Lamannia, and with the Master of Storms feat not working on it, I just thought I found something that might unintentionally not be working.Hopefully they make the MCL on the dragonmark match other spells too.
Racial SLAs that scale off character level double-dip levels. They get heroic levels + epic/legendary levels + epic/legendary knowledge; while other regular spells/SlAs only get heroic levels + epic/legendary knowledge. That's why cappping them at MLC20 makes them equal, it removes the extra 16 CLs they get over the spell equivlent.
As I said, if something with this dragonmark is wrong and for that reason the developers decide to nerf it, I can only say: please do it. But my statement was for the MCL in general, and if spells would have no MCL and if they would simply scale with the character level, the issue you describe would not exist, and it would also most likely be easier to code for the developers.
I know this is not the place for me to say this, I am sorry for that, but: with all my sincerety: the positive aspects of DDO made it my favorite game ever, but as a newbie what I dislike the most in this game is being lost (bugs are the second thing I dislike the most). One year since I found out this game exists and ever since the beginning I had a very hard time learning everything. Extremely high learning curve (even though it looked like a simple game the first times I played it). The times I had to delete my characters and create them again is uncountable. I felt surprised by how difficult it was. Many times I simply don't know what to do, don't have a clue, and reading the DDOwiki too much feels like a shore. I like watching Strimtom and AxelDDO's videos better, but even those two can't answer all the questions I constantly am having as I level up (and I ain't watching videos forever). There is an astounding amount of information in this game to read and figure out. And I don't like using my free time to do things that take too much time to do (it's like having a job, but not being paid for it). As a consequence, I've lost a whole lot of time. Yeah, I confess I am not a natural at playing DDO, I've never even played any TTRPG. I take forever to complete quests that I don't know yet, that's one of the main reasons I only want to play in groups/parties. But all groups in this game want to play in the hardest difficulties, which I struggle the most. I believe after years playing this game I'll learn everything there is to learn and find it all easy and relaxing... but so far I don't have any idea when that is going to happen. I just wish this game was more intuitive.
For those that don't enjoy researching, it really helps to find a mentor player, who can answer any questions you have, and give advice. Even though I personally enjoy researching DDO stuff, I know one or two players who've been playing longer than I have, and that have been willing to answer questions I have, and do quests with me; they've also helped me out of a tricky situation once or twice.