Ice Arrow question
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Re: Ice Arrow question
Thanks.
From what I played with my Mageazon, I'm getting the feeling that all Area of Attack arrows never miss, as opposed to Ice Arrows and the other elemental arrow spells, which are Attack Rating based. I definately experienced my Ice Arrows hitting the target, and yet not doing any damage, nor freezing the enemy! (and it wasn't a Cold Immune).
And if they never missed, why did the patch add the Attack Rating bonus for each of this?
Plus I even remember reading somewhere that elemental damage is never supposed to miss. Ahhh, it's confusing!
One final question: let's say I have penetrate, and one of my arrows were to miss, would it miss the 2nd enemy in line as well because of that, or there's a separate chance calculated for each enemy individually?
Thanks.
From what I played with my Mageazon, I'm getting the feeling that all Area of Attack arrows never miss, as opposed to Ice Arrows and the other elemental arrow spells, which are Attack Rating based. I definately experienced my Ice Arrows hitting the target, and yet not doing any damage, nor freezing the enemy! (and it wasn't a Cold Immune).
And if they never missed, why did the patch add the Attack Rating bonus for each of this?
Plus I even remember reading somewhere that elemental damage is never supposed to miss. Ahhh, it's confusing!
One final question: let's say I have penetrate, and one of my arrows were to miss, would it miss the 2nd enemy in line as well because of that, or there's a separate chance calculated for each enemy individually?
The AR bonus is for the physical side of things, as elemental damage does not miss. If you hit an enemy with say Ice Arrow you then have a chance to pierce the monster depending on your level of Pierce (not Penetrate) skill. If the arrow is successful then it does damage to that monster, attacks the next monster behind. The arrow will do the elemental damage and then have the same chance to pierce that monster as well, and so on and so forth. If your chance to pierce the first monster in line fails, that attack is done, no chance to hit the monsters behind.
Note: Iirc some monsters are immune to freezing even though they are not cold immune. I think Blood Lords fall in this category.
Note: Iirc some monsters are immune to freezing even though they are not cold immune. I think Blood Lords fall in this category.
