MT's Mod 6 Spell Predictions

[Lorien_the_First_One]

In other words, its a 'you automatically take damage and there's nothing you can do about it' spell... doesn't sound too fun...

Incorrect.

Fort save for half, spell resistance.

[MysticTheurge]

Remember: Fort Save for Half and SR!!! dont overlook the SR.

If only SR worked the way it ought to.


Eladrin.

[jjflanigan]

Horrid Wilting actually deals 1d6 untyped damage per caster level (max 20d6) to all living creatures within the area of effect, Fortitude half.

It's possible that at the moment on live it's set up to deal negative energy damage, but in the spell update pass that'd have been corrected. Death Ward won't stop it - not much does.

DOH! -- that's going to nix my ability to solo the Whisperdoom quest. She loves to spam cast that stupid spell and only DW keeps me alive against her currently

[maddmatt70]

It is high time the warforge brethern got some proper repairing. I would like to see repair mass spells (lt, mod, ser, crit) in the next mod.

Norg

[Spookydodger]

Horrid Wilting actually deals 1d6 untyped damage per caster level (max 20d6) to all living creatures within the area of effect, Fortitude half.

It's possible that at the moment on live it's set up to deal negative energy damage, but in the spell update pass that'd have been corrected. Death Ward won't stop it - not much does.

How about a full-body lip-balm?

[Spookydodger]

Remember: Fort Save for Half and SR!!! dont overlook the SR.

It wouldn't have SR under DDO rules, as it is a purely damaging spell.

[HumanRogue]

Incorrect.

Fort save for half, spell resistance.

My guess is that SR won't help against this spell because its a damage spell (I could be wrong though). However, with a save, you still take half. Just about evey other spell has a way to get bypass it unscathed. Examples:

Shield spell, Nightshield, or a Scarab Trinket vs. Magic Missle and Force Missle
Evasion vs. Fireball and anything with a reflex save for half
Dodging, Resist/Protect Fire, Fireshield, and Firestorm Greaves vs. Scorching Ray
Having lots of Hit Points or Blindness ward Goggles vs. Power Word Blind
High Saving vs. Flesh to Stone and tons of other spells
Neutralize Poison or Proof against Poison item vs. Poison spell
Warforged immunities vs. Waves of Fatigue and Waves of Exhaustion
And others...

There are very few spells that are 'Automatic Damage' spells (Only one I can think of right now is Diefic Vengence). I just don't like having spells that are impossible to get around somehow. I understand that you get a fortitude save for half, but even a save leads to a hefty chunk of damage (Minimum would be 7d6, maximum would be 10d6). But if that's the way the spell is supposed to be, I wouldn't ask for a change, just don't like it is all... (And I'll have to keep my eyes out for some Oil of Olay to 'remoisturize' myself I guess ...)

PS. The reason I'm concerned is that, in Permadeath play, I find it hard to deal with spells that I have no way of stopping...

[MysticTheurge]

PS. The reason I'm concerned is that, in Permadeath play, I find it hard to deal with spells that I have no way of stopping...

So support the restoration of SR to it's proper status.

[Spookydodger]

I would like to see Enlarge/Reduce added. I know Enlarge is in there already, as the Duergar in BAM cast it all the time on themselves.

Though it doesn't really seem to make them large...

Maybe the spell they cast is heroic might or something.

[LeLoric]

Not every spell should be able to be negated

[MysticTheurge]

I would like to see Enlarge/Reduce added. I know Enlarge is in there already, as the Duergar in BAM cast it all the time on themselves.

Heather Sinclair said that they cheat.

Enlarge/Reduce introduce some very problematic clipping issues, apparently.

[HumanRogue]

So support the restoration of SR to it's proper status.

Having SR work according to PnP rules would at least give a small change to get past the damage (Highest SR currently in-game that I'm aware of is 22 (Excluding the SR Spell that clerics cast)... minimum caster level of Horrid Wilting would be 15, so more that half of the spells would still get through, but it would at least help some).

[Dragonhyde]

Incorrect.

Fort save for half, spell resistance.

spell resist works against damaging spells?

[MysticTheurge]

Excluding the SR Spell that clerics cast.

Why would you exclude that? You ought to have access to it by the time you're facing anyone who would cast Horrid Wilting.

[HumanRogue]

Why would you exclude that? You ought to have access to it by the time you're facing anyone who would cast Horrid Wilting.

The reason I excluded the cleric SR Spell was because I didn't know how high that SR could get...

[MysticTheurge]

The reason I excluded the cleric SR Spell was because I didn't know how high that SR could get...

Ahh, 12 + caster level.

[maddong]

It is a level 8 spell.

[Azoralq]

Mordikinien's Sword. Yes Please.

[MysticTheurge]

Mordikinien's Sword. Yes Please.

They probably could implement it kind of like Holy Sword, so that it just dumps an item in your inventory, but things that attack on their own like a real Mage's Sword or Spiritual Weapon don't seem to be possible yet.

[Lorien_the_First_One]

If only SR worked the way it ought to.
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Oh shoot, you're right. Silly me thinking this was D&D for a minute. Ok, save for half, SR is useless as usual.