03-14-2003, 08:47 PM
Quote: and then... an strict
interpretation of this would outcome in Sparkling Mail
having ranged capabilities, and not only with lightning
bows...
Hmm. I might remember wrong, but I think you need to spawn a lighting or fire attack to start with and only fire or lighting bows do that. If so the game will add in the damage from other items apart from the bow though. That is how I recall it is and what is meant in the guide.
This could easily be tested, with the help of an early patch for Diablo ( I think it will work with any version of Diablo below 1.8, maby 1.7 ) which had not fixed the "-of thieves" bug. The way I understand things I'm reading, start a network (NOT b.net) game and equip a weapon that deals extra elemental damage and the sparkling mail. Then on a target character equip a " of Thieves " item and start scribbling down damage taken from that weapon. After a large number of attacks have been taken and recorded, find the average... then unequip your "of thieves" and again, start scribbling attack damage dealt and find the average. In order to be fairly accurate, you'd need a large number of attacks (I'd say somewhere nerar 100 to 150) for both. Only to be attempted when you have too much time on your hands.
Anyways, I might be misunderstanding this discussion of ranged attacks and sparkling mails completely... so I'm gonna be quiet now.
I knew it! You actually bothered to read this signiture!