How Elemental Wands/Staves work in v.62

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  1. Katsuruka
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    I'll start out by quoting Joong on this subject:

    • It should also be noted that Red (fire) and Purple (poison) Elemental Wands/Staves give a damage penalty if used by an I/L (Arch)Mage with ice or lightning attacks.
    • The same is true of Blue (ice) and Yellow (lightning) Elemental Wands/Staves if used by a F/P (Arch)Mage with fire or poison attacks.
    • Bishops recieve no damage bonus or penalty from using Elemental Wands/Staves. Holy - and non-elemental - attacks are not affected by the bonuses or penalties of the Elemental weapons.

    I just spent a fair time testing this out with elemental/non-elemental wands on the test server, so theoretically, this is how things should work on the live server, too. I used the same character each time, with the same non-weapon equips and same level, and made sure that the elementally neutral weapon I used (a Dragon Wand) was scrolled so that it gave exactly the same amount of magic attack as a clean, average Elemental Wand, taking the amount of int on each into account. (If things aren't working as described above on the live server, then that's a bug, and needs to be addressed.)
     
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    I don't think they work at all. They didnt work in gms either
     
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    Maybe one of the GMs will do a test on the live server, to be sure that my findings on the test server match up with what's happening on the live server?

    (Note to GM: to get the exact same magic attack of an average lvl 130 ele wand (taking int into account), you need to scroll an average Dragon Wand with 1 x10%, 5 x60%s and 1 x100%.)
     
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    Did you make sure to not have any points in Elemental application when testing mage dmg?
     
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    There wouldn't have been any point in doing that, as I was testing the lvl 130 wands, and mages of that level would have already maxed elemental amplification. Also, elemental amplification would have been applied to the skill while using a non-elemental weapon as well as using an elemental one.
     
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    It actually worked in GMS, Bishops were able to abuse the wands as well to become absolute gods then they added the nerf to holy damage on all wands.
     
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    So far on this server it's pretty balanced, mostly due to gen20 being expensive as hell and gen30 not available yet.
     
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    Gen20 has always been expensive as hell due to demand, even in officialMS

    And fact of the matter is that 50% of the popular leech maps are weak to holy, not to mention the holy grail of leech maps, Skeles.

    GS2
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    Fact is bishops are overpowered. But I mean I'm not complaining so much as making an observation, bishops are just overpowered in v62, period.
     
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    So, in conclusion does it work????
     
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    Hi just wondering. Does an ice wand work with ice lightning mage's element composition which is supposed to be 50% ice 50% lightning? Does it increase to something like 62.5% ice and 55% lightning = 117.5% damage increase total?
     
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    Can i ask what number each color is and where each one comes from?
     
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    1/5 is Fire
    2/6 is Poison
    3/7 is Ice
    4/8 is Lightning

    Elemental Wand 5 and 6 comes from NLC Gachapon.
    Elemental Wand 7 comes from CBD: Singapore Gachapon.
    Elemental Wand 8 comes from Ellinia Gachapon.
     
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    can i also ask about where the 70 ones come from? and if you know does paralyze benefit from having a 2/6 wand
     
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    Not sure about 1, but 2 comes from Showa, 3 comes from Sleepywood and Singapore I think and 4 comes from Ellinia I think.
     
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    dang, 1 is the one i really need first too, thanks for all the help though, ironman f/p mage if you didn't see and trying to plan forward :)
     
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    not sure if this is true but ive been directed towards shrine, I was planning on gaching there tomorrow anyway so lets hope for the best, ill let your know if it is
     
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    Update: after carefully watching the gachapon alerts I have tracked Elemental wand 1 to be located at PERION. *cries* just though id let you know:'(
     
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    Just to clarify do the effects still work? And is the boost for ice/lighting better than the +2 int from the other wands/staffs.
     
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    also curious about the same thing and to add on, does the bonus 25% damage give you 25% of total TMA or just 25% TMA of the wand/staff
     

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