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Playing the new 4.0.3, 40th level mage just fired a meteor swarm at an Elder Vampire. The meteors caused virtually no damage, whilst a regular fire ball causes noticeable damage to the bloodsucker. Given the "V" is vulnerable to fire, I thought the meteor swarm would cause significant damage. Alas, this was not the case. So, are meteors on fire? Or was @ just throwing big rocks? Is this a bug?
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“We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see.”
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"Meteor" is in fact an entirely different element. I don't recall exactly how monster resists for it work, but in practice I wouldn't expect many enemies to resist or be vulnerable to it. -
“We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see.”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are DeadComment
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It is strange that meteors don't cause fire damage to monsters but they do burn items.Comment
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In my opinion, they should also burn monsters vulnerable to fire. I don't think I'll ever bother casting the spell again now that I know they don't. So many other spells with a better damage/mana ratio. The only time I ever wanted to use it was against a target of opportunity, i.e., a monster vulnerable to fire.“We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see.”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are DeadComment
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Meteor swarm is one of your best attack spells in Raal's; if I recall correctly it's basically tied with Rift. Or at least, it is once you get three projectiles with it. When you only get two meteors it's a bit subpar.Comment
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And sometimes you don't want the teleporting side effect of Rift.
Maybe make the Meteor animation brown instead of red to avoid confusion?Comment
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Saying that this spell is useless because it isn't fire elemental is a bit weird. How many monsters are actually vulnerable to anything?? And how many monsters resist fire? (I'm pretty sure the latter group is like "1 billion monsters")Glaurung, Father of the Dragons says, 'You cannot avoid the ballyhack.'Comment
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We should add a lunarian and antipaladin pair of uniques in Angband who can cast W-meteor-swarm when they're simultaneously in LOS of you.Glaurung, Father of the Dragons says, 'You cannot avoid the ballyhack.'Comment
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Meteor swarm is not very useful when you first get the fail rate down. It's less mana efficient than previous bolt spells, so it is only useful against monsters that resist base elements.
Later in the game when you need to kill things more quickly it is the main attack spell for mages. Rift is less mana efficient against a single monster. Rend soul is only useful against non-evil monsters. And chaos strike is only useful against uniques because of the polymorph effect.Comment
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According to hubblesite.org:
A meteor is the flash of light that we see in the night sky when a small chunk of interplanetary debris burns up as it passes through our atmosphere. "Meteor" refers to the flash of light caused by the debris, not the debris itself.
The debris is called a meteoroid.
If any part of a meteoroid survives the fall through the atmosphere and lands on Earth, it is called a meteorite.
"Meteor" does imply fire; I can understand why this would be confusing for some people. A meteorite swarm, though, could also imply fire because they would only be swarming if they were currently in the process of hitting the ground and that would indicate they were on fire from entering the atmosphere.
WWTD?
(What would Tolkien do?)A(3.1.0b) CWS "Fyren_V" NEW L:50 DL:127 A++ R+++ Sp+ w:The Great Axe of Eonwe
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Almost all undeads have fire resistance hole
Almost all demons and animals have cold resistance hole.
Almost everything has hole to electricity
Even more have hole to acid.
Vulnerabilities are not that common though. Hydras, reptiles, snakes, most jellies and nagas are hurt by cold, vampires, zombies and molds by fire. Individual species might make exception, like fire and death mold and movable jellies. Also fire elementals and vortices are hurt by cold and cold elementals and vortices by fire.
There are a lot of monsters that get hurt by light. I didn't even realize that before doing monster.txt browsing. Too bad that game doesn't have decent light-based weapon (spell or light-brand. Elven blades should have light brand against orcs IMO).
Brands are very useful against non-unique monsters. Uniques have tendency to resist more than general population. If you have double-branded weapon it gets that against almost anything, because things that resist one usually don't resist other. There are very few monsters that resist both cold and fire for example. Almost all of them uniques.Comment
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You'd think the priest books would have a light-based spell to balance out the orb of draining (which in my head has always seemed black?).
Holy bolt
Holy blast
Holy aura (PBAOE)
Light To The Face (<----- winner)A(3.1.0b) CWS "Fyren_V" NEW L:50 DL:127 A++ R+++ Sp+ w:The Great Axe of Eonwe
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