So I made an excuse to attack a lot of them.

It's called Grounding Field [GF]:

The Grounding Field spell establishes an electrical field about the magician that redirects hostile energies harmlessly into Elanthia. When establishing a field it must be attuned to fire, cold or electrical sources specifically. While much trial and hardship has resulted in a stable barrier that will not interfere with the caster's own attacks be warned that the field will amplify energy sources it is not attuned to.

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The skinny: Esoteric Warding in the Lighting book. It requires ES, LB and 70th circle. 2 slots. When cast you must specify cold, fire or electrical.

The way it works is slightly complex, but the basic logic it should follow is this:

If the attack is purely elemental and the primary element is what you're attuned to, the attack will be stopped entirely.

If the attack is both elemental and physical, and the primary element is what you're attuned to, the elemental component will be stripped away entirely.

If the attack's primary element is not what you are attuned to, the any damage from both elements you are not attuned to will be increased. Any damage from the element you are attuned to will still be nullified (though for brevity this isn't messaged).

This is not a trivial spell, and we're going to be watching it's power level closely. It's also a little tricky how it works so please bring forth anything unusual you see it doing.

-Raesh

"Ever notice that B.A.'s flavor text swells in direct proportion to how much one of our characters is getting screwed?" - Brian Van Hoose

Sounds nifty.

> stopped entirely

So does this spell not have potency, then? Just duration and integrity?

lol awesome.

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Fire electric cold and physicals as far as I know. Holy spells are typically fire and impact, though I think HE dabbles in all three elements for most bang.

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Seems a pretty risky spell; considering the number of magics that aren't elemental in nature, potentially upping the damage received by an incoming spell seems overboard for stopping just one type.

Maybe make the barrier a bit more dynamic, and enable swapping to a different element with a small RT? I'll have to fiddle with it.

It's an insanely powerful spell when used at the right times against the right people. And it's also a very neat tool for discovering which spells lean heavily on elemental damage. Try it against burn, heh.

>>It's an insanely powerful spell when used at the right times against the right people. And it's also a very neat tool for discovering which spells lean heavily on elemental damage. Try it against burn, heh.

Another reason to bemoan the lack of CRS in the Moon Mage 3.0 Spell book. :-(

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-Raesh

<Another reason to bemoan the lack of CRS in the Moon Mage 3.0 Spell book. :-(

Heh yeah that sucks, CRS was badass. Was the perfect spell to snap off just before a nice PD or burn killcast.

Will this spell work against enchanted weapons? I think it should.

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>Stopping one type of damage can be devastating.

If you can give ballparks, will stopping 1 element of a multi-element spell make up for the boost the other elements get? Or will it be a net increase to damage if, say, you're facing 1/3 fire/elec/cold?

I guess I'm asking for a rough comparison of boost vs. negation. Since negation is total.

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>>If you can give ballparks, will stopping 1 element of a multi-element spell make up for the boost the other elements get

If you're warded against the primary element, then the other things don't get a boost.

Say you're set to block fire.

So if something is mainly fire, but with a touch of electric on the side, then both get blocked.

If something is mainly electric, with a touch of fire on the side, the fire gets blocked but the electric is boosted.

If something is mainly fire with some impact on the side, then only the impact gets through (with no boost or reduction).

If something is mainly fire with some impact and cold on the side, then the fire is blocked, the cold is blocked, but the impact gets through.

If something is mainly electric with a touch of fire, cold, and slice on the side, the fire is blocked, the electric and cold is boosted, and the slice is normal.

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> Moonies do fire with Burn, and cold with SLS (not sure what's happening with SLS in 3.0?)

I think DO does a little cold.

> Bards do fire (and possibly ice) with Pyre, and Lightening with BoS?

Pyre is either fire or fire/ice; it'll be interesting to test it with this to see which element is dominant in the second version. From the sounds of things, BoS will be getting a lightning/ice version as well.

DO does some cold, but whatever its ratio to physical damage is, it's nothing like burn. I tried it against a WM attuned to block fire and the amplification was meh.

As an example of what this spell is capable of, it turns a one shot burn kill into a scratch with no visible wound--even when the burn caster has over 600 more TM than the target has evasion, and is capping and fully targeting the spell. Granted, that shows that burn is obviously hugely dependent on fire damage, but I bet it's not the only spell out there like that. And there aren't really a lot of DFA options.

EBWOP: Ah, I see the DO and Burn comment. I mean, that's neat, to be sure, but A ) Warmies already have an elemental damage reducer in the form of ES, and an anti-magic shield in the form of AC.

and B ) most mages have access to spells with minimal to no elemental components to them. What's the reduction on DO fired at a cold attuned GF?

Not every spell is for everybody, nor is every spell written for just PvP. In the right circumstances this spell will crush many creatures in PvE, which is where many of the limitations come in.

Aside from that the Hamster's flow chart is correct about how the damage is stopped.

Also just to clarify spells in 3.0 generally do damage in a few different ways:

1 type of damage

2 types of damage in equal amounts

2 types of damage skewed towards one

3 types of damage in equal amounts

-Raesh

"Ever notice that B.A.'s flavor text swells in direct proportion to how much one of our characters is getting screwed?" - Brian Van Hoose

>>2 types of damage in equal amounts

If a spell does 2 types of damage in equal amounts, what determines which is the primary element?

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>>Though I'm still curious, in the case of a tri-elemental spell, all of it would get blocked?

Only if the primary element of that spell is the one you're attuned to.

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Technically it's a >= in the equation, so in a tie it should ground out.

That said I'm not 100% sure at which point barriers get checked vs other factors in combat so it's possible it could change from cast to cast due to RNG and changing circumstances - I don't think it will, but I'm not certain enough on the combat math flowchart to say for sure.

-Raesh

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Also,

>>So stop Will of Winter?

Not that easy :/

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