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Old 06/22/07, 12:55 AM   #25
Benji
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Gnome Mage
 
Thunderhorn
Spell Penetration:

I will say a couple things about mages and their spells that I'm sure all of us know.

Frost Resistance: Its binary. ie: Its all or nothing when its resisted. There is always a chance, even at 0 resist, for someone or something to resist your spell. For frost mages, that means here and there, you will get a resist putting your bolt at 0 damage.

Fire Resistance: Fire is not binary. You can resist a percentage of it. It sucks when you cast a fireball, and some random monster only takes 1000 of the 2000 you were giddy to see pop above their head, but at least you did some damage.

Spell penetration, while not always the most desirable statistic in PvE, is after all useful.
Especially those who are at a damage peak, and require different kinds of blue gems (to activate metagems) in order to increase damage occurance (as opposed to losing out on doing damage).

Contingency.
 
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