Question about spells

[shorty13]

Before the wipe, both offensive spells (the arrow one and i think flame burst) dealt 12 damage and only 12.  Even if you moved the bar up or leveled up in that way of magic it stayed at 12 damage.  This is really low esp since you need all of the exp, costs a lot, and has a cast time.  Anyways...

I tested to see if it still does this with my friend (i let him hit me with flame burst and watched my health in the stats and skills window where it is shown numerically).  It did only 12 damage.  He then put his spell power bar up to 20% and it still did only 12 damage.  

Is this going to be fixed soon?  It is really annoying, or does the spell power slide not work, and he just happened to be on the level of red way where it deals only 12 damage?

[acraig]

Ok, will take a look at that.

[shorty13]

thx.  Oh by the way, You devs are doing GGGRRREEEAAATTT

[zanzibar]

Before the wipe, I had will in the 90\'s and red way level 192.  My redway was that high from a bug ; I asked for it to be returned to normal, and my request was turned down.  Since the wipe happened, things are ok now with my character.



While I had level 192, each fireburst spell did about 100 damage.  However, I did not notice an increase in damage when I increased the power level.

[shorty13]

oh that is intersting.  But still, if you COULD (without a bug) manage to get your red way up to 192, don\'t you think your spell should be doing much more than 100?  For a 1/8 of the price and no casting time, and without a bug you could have gotten your sword attack to be about 100.

[zanzibar]

Actually, I think the most you\'re supposed to be able to get in red way is 50, but I\'m not sure.


If you have level 80 sword, and your strength agility and endurance are maxed out at 140 (I think), then you can deal over 55 damage in a single hit with sabre.  However, sword is more than twice as fast as a single fireburst.  So two swords at twice the speed is 220 damage for every 100 damage of fireburst.

[shorty13]

not to mention you can carry 2 weapons to double the effects.

[zanzibar]

Originally posted by shorty13
not to mention you can carry 2 weapons to double the effects.

I included that in my calculations....


Also, if you move, the spell is aborted.  So you can\'t do hit and run attacks like you can with sword.

[Cyrus Arckum]

Originally posted by zanzibar

Originally posted by shorty13
not to mention you can carry 2 weapons to double the effects.

I included that in my calculations....


Also, if you move, the spell is aborted.  So you can\'t do hit and run attacks like you can with sword.

 Yes, and when I do that when freezing some of the antagonists on the Ojaveda road I become inable to fight, cast spells, and buy/sell stuff.

[zanzibar]

Hopefully, the new spells will be more powerful.  Meteor shower might be a spell with the range of arrow and the damage of flameburst, so we\'ll see!

[Gentar]

does flameburst still ahve the bug where it can crash the game at random?

[Moogie]

Flameburst doesn\'t seem to cause problems, as far as I\'ve seen during testing. Meteor is a *very* powerful spell, but takes a horrendously long time to cast. Almost a full minute, I think. But one hit kills a rat deader than two o\'clock in the morning.

[shorty13]

lol haven\'t heard that phrase before.

Hopefully it can kill more than just a rat with a 1 minute casting time.

[DaveG]

Originally posted by zanzibar
red way level 192

Interesting thing I just learned:  Duel point awards are the ratio of the two players\' highest skills... you could have been raking in the duel points with that bug...