Damage types of spells

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Hellfire.Bane

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Can anyone tell me why the damage type for all eldritch SPEC line spells are all cold damage

seems a bit silly that damage types for elds that go light void or mana, all get cold, it leads to a disturbing fact that enemys need only resist in 1 area heavily, rather than 3 damage types, that would then allow different spec line elds to have a better chance of damage variation on targets depending upon resist types and levels.

Is this going to be addressed in future patches, i dont no, does anyone??

seems to me that damage types could be something like this...


void........cold
mana......heat or energy
light .......matter or energy

(just as a side note, can anyone tell me also why the eclipse bolt [eld baseline] sucks so very very badly, i dont even use it rvr anymore coz it hits about as hard as a mushy pea, flicked from an old rubber band. especially when the sun baseline DD is at least useable.)

<Horatio>
lvl 5X light eld
 
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Myshra

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your not completely right is why

light baseline = heat
light spec = cold
GTAoE = energy
PBAoE = energy
AoE debuffs = energy
bolts = cold
stun = heat
AoE mezz = cold
Nearsight = cold
AoE dmg = cold
DD + Snare = energy

you have 3 resists there, like most casters. sure, most of your attacks are cold, but mana elds arn't just like most wizzies are fire, but some are earth which uses matter (and is the reason it hurts so much, absolutly no one has matter resist :D )
 
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Blood

Guest
Mez/Stun

Heat - hib baseline stun
Body - bard mez, minstrel mez, baseline alb root (cab/sorc), sorc spec AE root
Energy - sorc mez (AE/Single), ment mez
Spirit - cleric stun, theurg mez*, cleric mez*
Cold - baseline alb root (wiz/theurg), eld mez*
Matter - druid root, wiz earth spec root

* short duration AE mez

Nukes

Heat - Hib baseline, Chanter/Ment Spec, Wiz Spec, Wiz bolts (fire)
Cold - Eld Spec, Alb baseline (wiz/theurg), Nightshade magic, Wiz spec nuke/pb, Eld bolts
Energy - Eld Spec PB, Chanter spec PB, Ment DoT, Eld GTAE.
Body - Druid DoT, Alb Baseline (Cab/Sorc), Alb Spec (Sorc/Cab), Minst shout, Bard shout, Champ shout.
Spirit - Cleric base/spec, Theurg Spec.
Matter - Alb Matter Baseline/Spec, Wiz Earth Spec Bolt/GTAE/DoT.
 
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Hellfire.Bane

Guest
Originally posted by Myshra
your not completely right is why

light baseline = heat
light spec = cold
GTAoE = energy
PBAoE = energy
AoE debuffs = energy
bolts = cold
stun = heat
AoE mezz = cold
Nearsight = cold
AoE dmg = cold
DD + Snare = energy



My query was not with baseline spells, only spec lines, and by the way PBAoE is NOT energy its cold, i am light spec but have mana to lvl 26, and the info on the PBAoE says cold.

and i am not concerned with stuns mezzes and nearsight as these dont do damage (directly i mean).

GTae is a new addition so i dont now about that.

so my original qusestion still stands due to the fact that............

light DD...............cold damage
mana PBAoE........cold damage
void bolt..............cold damage
void DD................cold damage
 
S

SilverHood

Guest
gotta love when a void specced elf starts bolting me..... /em luv's his 24% cold resist
 
O

old.Isos

Guest
stop complaining, you can nuke trough keep doors, I cant hit through one =)
 
D

Danya

Guest
Originally posted by SilverHood
gotta love when a void specced elf starts bolting me..... /em luv's his 24% cold resist
Gimp
29% cold resist /flex
 
V

VidX

Guest
For Eldritch:

All spells are cold based except the following lines:

GTAoE (Void Spec) = Energy Damage
All Mana based spells (Both Spec and base, including PBAoE) = Energy based
Light Baseline spells (Way of the Sun: Base Light DD and Stun) = Heat

There was rumours a while back that the Void bolts were being changed to Energy, but I think this was only a rumour.
 
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VidX

Guest
And /flex @ my 26% Heat, Cold and Energy Resists, (add 24% Body, Spirit and Energy when grouped with Furball). Only resists I have under 10% are the 3 melee ones :)
 
D

Danya

Guest
Blue/Yellow actually, but the drop is somewhat rare. :p
 
C

case-rigantis

Guest
/em starts twisting cold and energy chants in RvR :clap:
 

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