I am playing a Dunadan Mage, currently level 36 with most stats at or close
to
18/100 before race/class/equip bonuses, hanging around DL 40 until I get
the
rest of those stats boosted to their maximums. I recently noticed that,
even
though I have a fairly bad weapon compared to the rest of my kit [Small
Sword of
Westernesse (1d6) (+10, +8) (+1)], my physical attacks are remarkably
effective.
I get 4 attacks with this light weapon, and seem to land 3 of them on
average
against those creatures with which I dare to go toe-to-toe. The average
damages
for several things I can do appear below:
Single Attack = 1d6 + 27 = 30.5
Full Attack = 30.5 * 4 = 122
Magic Missile = 10d4 = 25
Acid Bolt = 15d8 = 67.5
Ice Storm = 122
Meteor Swarm = 48 * 3 = 144
Rift = 40 + 36d7 = 166
Is this usual? I suppose once I find a copy of the last spellbook there
will be
some more powerful attack spells in it, but otherwise it seems to me that
all of
these damages will increase at roughly the same rate through the rest of
the
game.
Also, am I correct to say that Magic Missile is the *only* mage spell that
does
non-elemental (that is, non-resistable) damage?
Also, can someone explain how damage on ball spells is calculated? That
is, if
Meteor Swarm does 122 damage, does that amount get divided among all
creatures
it hits, or is that the amount that the center takes and enemies on the
periphery take some percentage of it?
Also, is it accurate of me to say that there is no ball-style spell other
than
Stinking Cloud that does not risk destroying some type of items on the
ground?
Also, the Ice Storm spell sounds like it should do cold damage, but I
never get
a message about enemies that have cold resistance resisting it. Is this
message
just suppressed because I find out about them being dazed instead, or am I
actually bypassing their resistance?
Also, it is clear that some of the spells in Raal's do things other than
their
damage. For example, why does Meteor Swarm list its damage as 48x3 rather
than
simply 144? There must be something else going on that I am not seeing.
Thanks,
Chad
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