The nerf of Fire Ball is not that hard. You can still use it for leveling.
It’s the part where it disappears after one hit that worries me. Yes of course you can still do damage with it, but if ONE thing touches it, it’s gone. Like if 1 monster gets close to it, you get 1 explosion on that 1 monster. And it’s not enough damage to be worth it IMO. It is an object that you set up to link, apply psy pressure, or duplicate. But in many battles, you won’t get the chance because it will be used up quickly. Maybe they didn’t want the pyro to play with it as much anymore so they gave us all the damage at once. Maybe so linkers wouldn’t be out of control. Though there are still other classes that mow through monsters a lot faster now anyway. The joys of balancing.
It should have stayed as a damage over time object. If the damage were lower, but the damage tics stayed the same, I’d be fine with that.
The fireball nerf hurts really bad because there is no reliable way to hit flying things now