Weird experiments

[the Langolier]

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.

This sounds like it would simply test the bug related to "of thieves", not extra elental damage. Also, the damage you are talking about would be too small to even see a difference anyways. Elemental damage is halved in PvP attacks. One half (PvP) of one half (of thieves) out of 1-10 damage from sparkling mail is insignificant.

I think Jarulf has it right on, but it sounds like the wording has been misinterpreted. If anyone *does* need to test it, simply equip a character with a bow of burning. Elemental attacks have animations, so with a sparkling mail, the targeted tile should produce both a fire and a lightning attack. Similiar to the way the mail works with swords, only the tile where the arrow connects should there be a lightning attack, the arrow itself will not appear to have been fired by a lightning bow (only with the fire-tip).

Edit: Well, a quick test with flamedart and sparkling mail shows that this is not the case. Even with the fire elemental bow, no lighting animation is spawned when equiping the mail.