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harrylee New Kid Posts: 2 |
HELP - skill reduce defense "Acidic Blight"
#62959 - 06/20/08 12:26 AM |
This kill seem not effect with damage of fire-ice-light-poison. Is it right, help me pls! |
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kurg_ New Kid Posts: 21 |
Re: HELP - skill reduce defense "Acidic Blight"
#62963 - 06/20/08 01:31 AM |
Defense does not equal Resistance. Acidic Blight only affects Defense, which is what determines whether a person gets hit by a melee/ranged weapon...not spells. |
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Necrophilius Veternarian Posts: 1,379 |
Re: HELP - skill reduce defense "Acidic Blight" [Re: #62963]
#62967 - 06/20/08 01:42 AM |
Basically, Acidic Blight is utterly useless for Mages. |
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Cthulhu Old Timer Posts: 493 |
Re: HELP - skill reduce defense "Acidic Blight" [Re: #62967]
#62969 - 06/20/08 01:59 AM |
Quote:Not necessarily Necro.. I use it but mine is pretty high level so it does "soften up" a large # monsters.  |
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JoeB1978 Acolyte of Saint Iggy Posts: 1,515 |
Re: HELP - skill reduce defense "Acidic Blight" [Re: #62969]
#62971 - 06/20/08 02:03 AM |
Quote:Quote:Not necessarily Necro.. I use it but mine is pretty high level so it does "soften up" a large # monsters. Crazy might be putting it nicely. Have to ask what you are softening them up for? Your wimping hits with your wands? Acidic Blight only affects the chance to hit on physical damage. It does not do any damage on its own nor does it allow you to hit more often with your spells. -------------------- JoeB - Level 100 - Back to a Fighter where he belongs SirOldBottom - Level 49 - Ice Mage Mearlin - Level 29 - Mage Dungeon Runners Map Build 0.110 |
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harrylee New Kid Posts: 2 |
Re: HELP - skill reduce defense "Acidic Blight"
#62977 - 06/20/08 02:45 AM |
now, i see, thanks all so much!!! |
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Necrophilius Veternarian Posts: 1,379 |
Re: HELP - skill reduce defense "Acidic Blight" [Re: #62969]
#62991 - 06/20/08 08:18 AM |
What JoeB said. |
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NonMemberStem New Kid Posts: 5 |
Re: HELP - skill reduce defense "Acidic Blight" [Re: #62991]
#63379 - 06/21/08 08:57 AM |
If you are using Dark connuption and your 1h Wand which is classed as a melee weapon then you are doing physical damage...as well as utilising the Shadow Lightning..so by using Acidic Blight and reudcing the defences you should be getting some results. -------------------- Death is just a figment of imagination...try it sometime  |
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Cthulhu Old Timer Posts: 493 |
Re: HELP - skill reduce defense "Acidic Blight" [Re: #62971]
#63385 - 06/21/08 11:39 AM |
Quote: Well, I find it does take defense away from monsters, so that I use less mana to clear out a group of monsters. When I use it for example it will take only 3 blasts of a spell as opposed to 5 to kill the monster. Crazy or not, BS or not I have noticed that 'Blight does make a noticable difference when I use it. |
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Villainz Chicken Hawk Posts: 161 |
Re: HELP - skill reduce defense "Acidic Blight" [Re: #63385]
#63389 - 06/21/08 12:09 PM |
Quote: Question: How does lowering defense rating, a feature designed for increasing the miss rate of PHYSICAL ATTACKS ONLY decrease the usage of your mana and boost the overall damage of your spells---the magic attacks WHICH COMPLETELY IGNORE the above mentioned feature, defense rating that is. |
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Cthulhu Old Timer Posts: 493 |
Re: HELP - skill reduce defense "Acidic Blight" [Re: #63389]
#63403 - 06/21/08 03:09 PM |
If you're not understanding it, why not go and try it and you tell me if it doesn't make a diffrerence...it's maybe not more then a few seconds but sometimes that's all one needs to get away.... |
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Villainz Chicken Hawk Posts: 161 |
Re: HELP - skill reduce defense "Acidic Blight" [Re: #63403]
#63411 - 06/21/08 04:20 PM |
You're really convinced Acidic Blight has some hidden DoT effect? |
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JoeB1978 Acolyte of Saint Iggy Posts: 1,515 |
Re: HELP - skill reduce defense "Acidic Blight" [Re: #63403]
#63421 - 06/21/08 05:41 PM |
If you are convinced it helps then use it. But personally I wouldnt use it with a mage. Unless it also alters the magic reisistance (which is what affects your chance of bolt hitting)then it might be helpful for a mage. Most likely it is just coincidence and if you ran more tests on it you would see that you are just as likely to kill the same mob type with a similar number on bolts. Also the range in damage on a bolt can easily explain why you need 3 bolts vs 5 bolts. If you are hitting 5 bolts on the lower end of range vs 3 bolts on the higher end. And that comes down to chance. -------------------- JoeB - Level 100 - Back to a Fighter where he belongs SirOldBottom - Level 49 - Ice Mage Mearlin - Level 29 - Mage Dungeon Runners Map Build 0.110 |
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AlienEighter Veteran Posts: 873 |
Re: HELP - skill reduce defense "Acidic Blight" [Re: #63421]
#63437 - 06/21/08 07:13 PM |
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Necrophilius Veternarian Posts: 1,379 |
Re: HELP - skill reduce defense "Acidic Blight" [Re: #63403]
#63469 - 06/22/08 01:45 AM |
Defense in DR does not involve damage. You can have 100,000 Defense Rating or 100,000 Fire Resistance and the damage done to you by a successful hit will be the same. Defenses in DR only involves the chance to hit in the first place. The only way you can directly do more damage in one hit is by buffing your own damage, not by "reducing the opponent's defense", because the concept does not exist. |
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