12-02-2003, 03:34 AM
Quote:Why not use (or suggest) Berserk to deal with fire immunes? As I remember correctly (unless this changed), Berserk converts ALL damage, even elemental, to magical type. With a fast weapon, this could easily be used to take care of any fire immunes; it's hard to find monsters that are immune to both (even such bosses are rare). And the runeword itself is not that hard to get. Of course, slap me if berserk works differently now and it wouldn't work
*Slap!* Well, I don't know if it's working differently, but I understood that Berserk converts only the physical damage to magic damage and the other elements remain as they were. If that's the case, then there's not much benefit to using Berserk specifically against fire immunes (yeah, yeah, against solo monsters it might do more damage but then your defence goes to 0 and that's all too much to discuss in a guide that's already very long). The original Grizabella used Berserk against Fire/Physical immune bosses and it took a *long* time to kill them. I suspect that that wouldn't have been the case if her Enchant had been converted to magic damage.