Arrow Fend-bladewind

Xietor · #1 May 14th, 2007, 01:35 PM

I disagree. it would help a good bit against pythium.
Bladewind would destroy those flaming arrow indies, while breath of the dragon took care of the slow moving emerald guards.

DrPraetorious · #2 May 14th, 2007, 02:29 PM

On the modding subject:
UIAM,

if a spell has #spec bit 2097152 (that's 0x200000) set, it is physical. The following spells are physical:
extra limp; extra cripple; extra entangle; Flying Shards; Blade Wind; Earthquake; Rain of Stones; Bone Melter; Bone Grinding; Maggots;

I know that arrow fend does *not* stop Rain of Stones (much to my chagrin when I tried what I thought would be a really killer app), so I suppose that to be blocked by arrow fend a spell would need to be both physical and aoe 0? That's just a guess.

Shovah32 · #3 May 14th, 2007, 03:24 PM

I think you have it there Praetorious - It makes sense and it seems to match what ive seen/remember.

lch · #4 May 14th, 2007, 05:04 PM

Mundane damage spells like those that DrP listed are affected. They have a special tag/attribute in the manual if they do mundane damage, too. Rain of stones of course is not affected, not because it has an AoE (it doesn't) but because it affects the whole battlefield and does not target IMHO.

llamabeast · #5 May 14th, 2007, 05:09 PM

So you reckon bone melter is affected by arrow fend? That seems really odd.

DrPraetorious · #6 May 14th, 2007, 05:14 PM

"the entire battlefield" is an area of effect (666, specifically.) In game terms it's an area of effect that covers the entire board.

I don't know if bone melter is arrow-fended, it'd be easy enough to test I think.

Sombre · #7 May 14th, 2007, 11:07 PM

Random note: I've never seen breath of the dragon do anything, ever.