Am I not understanding Magma Eruption?

PDF · #1 December 18th, 2004, 10:53 AM

I've been badly surprised recently with ME ineffectiveness..
I also wonder if Fire resistance protect againt it- I suppose it shoudln't as it is an Earth spell basically.
Once I had a mage, guarded by Statues, attacked by a Succubus, and scripted to ME repeteadly. The statues were killed on the 3rd cast, but the succubus was unhurt ...

Kristoffer O · #2 December 18th, 2004, 12:16 PM

Storm demons are ethereal. ME is probably not a magic attack (same as flying shards and blade wind). Thus no dmg at all.

tinkthank · #3 December 19th, 2004, 04:55 AM

OK, that explains the Storm Demons -- although 25% of them should have taken damage, right? (I suppose just bad luck.)

Cainehill · #4 December 18th, 2004, 12:16 PM

Ditto - I'd thought of ME as one of the heavy hitting spells, which according to the description and stats it should be. In actuality, even bladewind seems to do damage more consistently which shouldn't be the case.

archaeolept · #5 December 18th, 2004, 01:36 PM

well, i've used it to good effect, and i just had a good part of an army of sacred troops devastated by it. One thing though, it's accuracy is not great, and i believe it is one of those situations where the graphics are slightly misleading as to who is hit.

that it is a non-magical attack makes sense as well.