Divine Wrath (335) - question

[drumpel]

I don't see the Ithzir Initiates cast this very often, usually I get hit once or twice with some minors and some lost health....but can this spell really kill you on a rank 2 wound?

I got hit by the spell twice out of the 3 times it triggered. I lost a total of 73 health out of my total 132. I had no other wounds or missing health.....



Flames from the very bowels of the world's core erupt to consume you!
CS: +386 - TD: +393 + CvA: +14 + d100: +85 - -5 == +97
Warded off!

Flames from the very bowels of the world's core erupt to consume you!
CS: +386 - TD: +393 + CvA: +14 + d100: +98 - -5 == +110
Warding failed!
... and hits for 22 points of damage!
... 5 points of damage!
Stinging burn to your hand.

Flames from the very bowels of the world's core erupt to consume you!
CS: +386 - TD: +393 + CvA: +14 + d100: +96 - -5 == +108
Warding failed!
... and hits for 21 points of damage!
... 25 points of damage!
A raw, red hole is drilled in your chest by a powerful bolt!
The light blue glow leaves you.
The deep blue glow leaves you.
You become solid again.
The shimmering multicolored sphere fades from around you.
Abruptly, everything you see and hear comes into better focus. Your personal temporal reality has rejoined the true flow of time.
Your SIGN OF DEFENDING is no longer effective.
Your SIGN OF SHIELDS is no longer effective.
You feel less confident than before.
Your SIGN OF DISSIPATION is no longer effective.
Your SIGN OF WARDING is no longer effective.
The layer of raw elemental energy surrounding you dissipates.
The bright luminescence fades from around you.
The silvery luminescence fades from around you.
The brilliant luminescence fades from around you.
You feel your extra strength departing.
You feel your extra magical awareness leave you.
The glowing specks of energy surrounding you suddenly shoot off in all directions, then quickly fade away.
The tingling sensation and sense of security leaves you.

It seems you have died, my friend. Although you cannot do anything, you are keenly aware of what is going on around you...

You mentally give a sigh of relief as you remember that the Goddess Lorminstra owes you a favor.

...departing in 10 mins...


I don't see the spell cast at me that often and having never cast the spell myself since I have no characters that knows the spell.....this seems really fucking stupid. Am I missing something here as to why it killed me?

[Blazar]

Looks like a R5 plasma crit:

https://gswiki.play.net/Plasma_critical_table

It goes on to explain these are special crits:


There are two odd criticals, the Rank 5 and 6 CHEST**, which are always fatal when caused by a CS-based attack or flare but will only leave a level 2 injury (deep lacerations) to the body. When the Rank 5 or 6 CHEST critical results from an AS-based attack the result is non-fatal with a level 2 injury and 5 or 6 round stun, respectively.

[Winter]

Oh is that what it is? I always thought it was spellburst.

[drumpel]

Looks like a R5 plasma crit:

https://gswiki.play.net/Plasma_critical_table

It goes on to explain these are special crits:

That's just fucking stupid. Thanks for the help, though.

[Riltus]

There are two odd criticals, the Rank 5 and 6 CHEST**, which are always fatal when caused by a CS-based attack or flare but will only leave a level 2 injury (deep lacerations) to the body. When the Rank 5 or 6 CHEST critical results from an AS-based attack the result is non-fatal with a level 2 injury and 5 or 6 round stun, respectively.

When I constructed the plasma crit table in 2010 I noted that AS-based R5 and R6 chest criticals were non-fatal. The table was assembled before Balefire (713) and evoked Holy Bolt (306) existed. I may have determined this by using Empathic Assault (1110) to collect the AS-based damage. I just retested these three spells (evoked 306, 713 and 1110) and found that the R5/R6 chest criticals are fatal for these AS-based spells.


Evoked Holy Bolt (306)

You focus a lambent beam of divine energy at a hill troll!
AS: +251 vs DS: +132 with AvD: +39 + d100 roll: +93 = +251
... and hit for 92 points of damage!
Tremendous plasma discharge slices deep into the hill troll's chest!
The hill troll falls to the ground and dies.
The deep blue glow leaves a hill troll.
Cast Roundtime 3 Seconds.
>look troll

You see a fairly typical hill troll that is lying down.
She appears to be dead.
She has deep lacerations across her chest.

You channel at a dark orc.
You focus a lambent beam of divine energy at a dark orc!
AS: +251 vs DS: +73 with AvD: +40 + d100 roll: +50 = +268
... and hit for 74 points of damage!
A raw, red hole is drilled in the dark orc's chest by a powerful bolt!
A dark orc gives a last shudder and dies.
Cast Roundtime 3 Seconds.
Roundtime: 3 sec.
>l orc

You see a fairly typical dark orc that is lying down.
She appears to be dead.
She has deep lacerations across her chest.

Empathic Assault (1110)

You hurl a radiant ball of energy at a werebear!
AS: +189 vs DS: +75 with AvD: +42 + d100 roll: +24 = +180
... and hit for 64 points of damage!
A raw, red hole is drilled in the werebear's chest by a powerful bolt!
You hear a sound like a weeping child as a white glow separates itself from the werebear's body as it rises, disappearing into the heavens.
A werebear growls one last time, and crumples to the ground in a heap.
The werebear lacks the necessary manifest essence required to infuse an empathic presence.
Cast Roundtime 3 Seconds.
>healme
stance gua
You're feeling much better now.
>You are now in a guarded stance.
>l were

You see a fairly typical werebear that is lying down.
It appears to be dead.
It has deep lacerations across its chest.

Balefire (713)

You hurl a ball of greenish-black flame at a monastic lich!
AS: +299 vs DS: +193 with AvD: +65 + d100 roll: +49 = +220
... and hit for 97 points of damage!
Tremendous plasma discharge slices deep into the monastic lich's chest!
You hear a sound like a weeping child as a white glow separates itself from the monastic lich's body as it rises, disappearing into the heavens.

Mark