I hate this spell.

[ThisOtherKingdom]

An arctic titan gestures at you!
CS: +184 - TD: +138 + CvA: +2 + d100: +62 - -5 == +115
Warding failed!
Your weapon is struck with 's cast. (There's a typo by the way, which I just noticed.)


A rippling stream of vacuum leaps from your weapon.
... 40 points of damage!
Your left arm explodes at the shoulder!
You are stunned for 8 rounds!


Once I get hit with it, I die no matter what. It's a pain in the ass. What's weird about it is sometimes I'll have endrolls of up to 140-something and it won't effect me. What's the deal?

[Stunseed]

Called Weapon Fire. It's awesome from a Wizard's side of the fight. Sucks to be you, though.

A rippling stream of vacuum leaps from a twohanded sword a dark shambler is wielding.
... 70 points of damage!
Abdomen erupts, blood and bile splatter everything!
The dark shambler screams evilly one last time and goes still.


Love you Jolena!

[Lord Whirlin]

Weapon Fire is great. Team that up with Immolation and Sandstorm... ultimate damage over time combination

[ThisOtherKingdom]

Do you know why it sometimes doesn't make my weapon flare even with endrolls over 100?

[Lord Whirlin]

Yeah, because the spell has a natural failure chance that doesn't correspond to the modified d100 roll.
Why? I have no idea.
It either misses or hits the weapon at that point

[Stunseed]

I sorta thought it might be the weapon's magical properties, as my sucess rate with plain weapons much higher.

Love you Jolena!

[ThisOtherKingdom]

I really FUCKING hate this spell. I hunt on the glacier 30 times and never have worry about it. Then I die twice in 5 minutes from it. AHHHH.

[Stunseed]

Welcome to GSIV. I'd find an alternative if you can't defend against it, because an arctic titan's Weapon Fire lasts 3 blasts I think.

Love you Jolena!

[Xcalibur]

how does a wizard using it last? how many blasts? I never tried that spell at all.

[ThisOtherKingdom]

I meant I've hunted the glacier 30 times in in GSIV, or however many times for the past two weeks and I've died maybe once from it. Twice in 5 minutes is just a little frustrating. That is all.

[Stunseed]

Yeah. Try hunting Glacei, then come find me. 101 endroll that rips my damn throat out on the blast.

Love you Jolena!

[Kitsun]

Weapon fire has to succeed at two different checks. One is the warding roll, the second is hidden. If your the one casting it, it'll say you hit but then failed to hit or something silly. So while you may have failed the warding, you got lucky on the hidden.

I think this is one of the spells thats actually relient upon wizard spell ranks.

It works well on creatures that use weapons and can be stunned. Lets you get a cheap, recurring stun to give you windows for attack. I don't think I've ever seen it flare over 35-40 on something like age but I haven't tested it in GSIV.

As an aside, have you ever really gotten sandstorm to work on something you can hunt? I uphunt maybe 4 levels in Wyneb and with fully singled air spec, it would hit once for about 10 damage every fifth cycle. I dropped air and went for earth.

[Edaarin]

Bring a disk. Put weapon in the disk. Problem solved.

[Latrinsorm]

Originally posted by Edaarin
Bring a disk. Put weapon in the disk. Problem solved.

...if you have a second weapon or are big on brawling.

Let me ask this (otherwise I'll get uppity): Can rune staves be weapon fired?

[Dighn Darkbeam]

The spell seems fair to me. Its based off a warding roll. Get 414, 406, 401, 107, 103, 101, mass blurs and mass colors. Get some scrolls or magic items as well.

All that TD is out there for the taking.

[Khaitiff]

Do you still have to send your wizard somewhere to learn how to weapon flare? If yes where do you do that?

[Reyek]

yea there is a book in landing near the alchamist shop you have to read.

[Khaitiff]

Awesome I have a wizard that will be that age soon.

[ThisOtherKingdom]

Originally posted by Stunseed
Welcome to GSIV. I'd find an alternative if you can't defend against it, because an arctic titan's Weapon Fire lasts 3 blasts I think.


I'd just like to add that the last time I was hit by it, it lasted 5 blasts before it finally killed me.

[Stunseed]

They cast it at a decent CS, too. At 16, my Weapon Fire lasts three times. At 29, mine will kill before it runs out. I think it's gone 8 or 9 times.

Love you Jolena!

[Syberus]

If you have a weapon with cold flares (eblade doesn't count) Weapon fire is pretty much useless. I'm not sure if this changed with gs4 or not... but in 3 when I used to hunt Fire Mages with my 4x cold flaring axe I would get weapon fired.. it would last 1 or 2 rounds and hit me for like 15-20 damage and maybe a stun then stop. Resist elements also helps... but that may have changed.

[Latrinsorm]

Originally posted by Syberus
If you have a weapon with cold flares (eblade doesn't count) Weapon fire is pretty much useless. I'm not sure if this changed with gs4 or not... but in 3 when I used to hunt Fire Mages with my 4x cold flaring axe I would get weapon fired.. it would last 1 or 2 rounds and hit me for like 15-20 damage and maybe a stun then stop. Resist elements also helps... but that may have changed.

I heard someone pissing and moaning about how his cold-flaring weapon didn't protect him anymore on the official boards, so I think it's safe to say that's out.

And no one uses those bizarro ranger spells. Gross.