Which high level direct damage scroll spell is the best?

[Lampros]

Tornado, Meteor Shower, Great Maelstrom, and I guess Wilting Wind are the candidates?

Also, I have suddenly become a scroll whore, because it's instant cast on turn-based. Is this the case on real-time, too?

[Boeroer]

Great Maelstrom for me.

Scrolls all have 1.6 secs casting time and 3 secs recovery in RTwP I believe.

Edit: now my scrolls say 4.5 secs recovery - but I don't know if that's a vanilla nerf or if Community Patch nerfed that. 

Edited November 27, 2020 by Boeroer

[Lampros]

6 hours ago, Boeroer said:

Great Maelstrom for me.

Scrolls all have 1.6 secs casting time and 3 secs recovery in RTwP I believe.

Edit: now my scrolls say 4.5 secs recovery - but I don't know if that's a vanilla nerf or if Community Patch nerfed that. 

I tested, and among the 4 I mentioned at Arcana 13 or above, I like Great Maelstrom and Wilting Wind. Neither are resisted a lot; in contrast, Meteor Shower seems to have too many resistant or immune monsters. The targeting is also imprecise, and you can waste a lot of the "meteors" with bad luck. Tornado is okay - somewhere in the middle for me.

I am also using Tayn's Chaotic Orb and Gaze of Adragon.

On turn-based, I see no indicator for recovery time on scroll; but all actions are "standard" so they are instantly cast. This makes scroll build perhaps the best build in turn-based!