Greater Conflagration question... can't find it anywhere. >_<

Ninetail Trickster

Ninetail Trickster

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Mar 2006

A pleasant place that needs more rain. T_T

The Rose Society

'kay. Ten to one most people'll think I want to know what happens if you put up Winter and Conflagration at the same time. I don't... Winter over-rides the flame conversion. GuildWiki! xD

...what I DO want to know is why Greater Conflagration is an Elite skill, while Winter is not. They do essentially the same thing. Rangers have armor that defends against cold and fire both. So why the distinction?

SnipiousMax

SnipiousMax

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Join Date: Sep 2005

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Originally Posted by Ninetail Trickster
'kay. Ten to one most people'll think I want to know what happens if you put up Winter and Conflagration at the same time. I don't... Winter over-rides the flame conversion. GuildWiki! xD

...what I DO want to know is why Greater Conflagration is an Elite skill, while Winter is not. They do essentially the same thing. Rangers have armor that defends against cold and fire both. So why the distinction? GC changes physical damage to elemental damage, which Ranger's have natural resistance to. Winter merely changes all elemental damage to water. So really the ranger isn't getting as much benefit from it as he would from GC, except in the case the the Ranger is using Fur Armor. So GC gives you +30 - +45 armor vs physical. Where winter gives, at best, +15 armor vs elemental damage.

Ninetail Trickster

Ninetail Trickster

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Join Date: Mar 2006

A pleasant place that needs more rain. T_T

The Rose Society

OOH. I've been misreading the skill, then!
I'm sorry, I thought Winter converted physical damage, too... my mistake. Sorry. >_<

Wolydarg

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Mar 2006

I Excentrix I [PuNK]

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There's gonna be a factions skills that only converts arrows to Fire and won't take up an elite slot.

Conflagration I think it's called.

Poison Ivy

Poison Ivy

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jan 2006

Toronto

Hopping

Mo/A

^Simply pointless.

SnipiousMax

SnipiousMax

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Join Date: Sep 2005

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Originally Posted by Poison Ivy
^Simply pointless. I thought the same.

Evilsod

Evilsod

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Join Date: Mar 2006

England

Lievs Death Squad [LDS]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Wolydarg
There's gonna be a factions skills that only converts arrows to Fire and won't take up an elite slot.

Conflagration I think it's called. Surely thats just Kindle Arrows dumbed down?

Jenosavel

Jenosavel

Master of Beasts

Join Date: Jul 2005

Servants of Fortuna [SoF]

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Originally Posted by Evilsod
Surely thats just Kindle Arrows dumbed down? It's in spirit form rather than prep form. Can't really call that dumbed down; it's just useful in a different situation.

ArianeB

Academy Page

Join Date: Mar 2006

Arthur

E/Mo

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Originally Posted by Jenosavel
It's in spirit form rather than prep form. Can't really call that dumbed down; it's just useful in a different situation. Like in GvG, Ranger launches Conflagration spirit, Mo/Me puts up stance Mantra of Flame, Arrow damage is reduced 45%, Mo/Me survives ranger spike.

Skuld

Skuld

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Join Date: Sep 2005

Thousend Tigers Apund Ur Head [Ttgr]

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neutralises warrior physical armour bonus, neutralises orders, not the most exciting skill but effective in the right situation

Veron

Academy Page

Join Date: Mar 2006

Leather Rebels [LR]

The only differences between Conflagaration and Kindle Arrows off the of my head would be:

a) the enemy can forcibly remove Conflagaration.
b) you can use both Barrage and Conflagaration.
c) Conflagaration lasts longer (of course depends on your attributes, but I don't know why you'd use it and not have it last a fairly decent amount of time)

Skuld

Skuld

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Join Date: Sep 2005

Thousend Tigers Apund Ur Head [Ttgr]

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What makes it elite is the converting of physical, not the fire damage

denshuu

denshuu

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Join Date: Dec 2005

Xen Of Onslaught [XoO]

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Quote:
The only differences between Conflagaration and Kindle Arrows off the of my head would be:

a) the enemy can forcibly remove Conflagaration.
b) you can use both Barrage and Conflagaration.
c) Conflagaration lasts longer (of course depends on your attributes, but I don't know why you'd use it and not have it last a fairly decent amount of time) Conflagration and Greater Conflagration don't deal any additional damage, they just convert physical damage to fire damage. Kindle Arrows adds fire damage on top of the physical damage from your arrows.

Jenosavel

Jenosavel

Master of Beasts

Join Date: Jul 2005

Servants of Fortuna [SoF]

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Quote:
Originally Posted by denshuu
Conflagration and Greater Conflagration don't deal any additional damage, they just convert physical damage to fire damage. Kindle Arrows adds fire damage on top of the physical damage from your arrows. Or rather, it should according to the skill description. In reality, however, it adds extra fire damage on top of also converting your arrow's physical damage to fire damage.

Richo

Richo

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Join Date: Feb 2006

(Europe server)

[DVDF]

Me/Mo

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Originally Posted by Poison Ivy
^Simply pointless. thats not pointles

if there is coming a new non elite skill that makes youre arrow fire dmg i will gladly take it and then equip winter this will be perfect against any fire based armor creature in cantha

SnipiousMax

SnipiousMax

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Join Date: Sep 2005

^You could just use an Icy mod for the same effect, and save yourself two skill slots.

Cherno

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jan 2006

Stars of Destiny

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Originally Posted by SnipiousMax
^You could just use an Icy mod for the same effect, and save yourself two skill slots. For yourself sure, but if you want to help out the rest of the team, you need the slots.

I have gone back through fire islands before and the warriors didn't have an elemental weapon to take advantage of winter. So you bring g.conf + winter and now everyone is benefitting. Sure you have less slots, but that's rarely a problem for a ranger.

Saborath Gilgalad

Saborath Gilgalad

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Sep 2005

Minneapolis

Natural Born Killas [NBK]

I use Greater Conflagration, and Winter on the last mission to take down Titan super Fast.

I Put down Greater Conflagration first (so all damage is Fire Damage) then I lay down winter afterwards, (so all Elemental Damage is Cold Dmg). This way all damge the party does is cold damage, and the titan's go down quick.
It works and Works Great.

YienTheYien

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Join Date: Apr 2006

R/

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Originally Posted by Evilsod
Surely thats just Kindle Arrows dumbed down? The Forgerunner FTW!