Elemental Weapons

[Yogi_Baar]

Using a lightning sword, this might be a problem.

So the spawned effect is a charged bolt spark equivalent? IIRC those can be blocked with no resistance...

If your to hit is high enough and you hit, now you have both the regular damage and the elemental damage. Now if the opponent has resistance to the element, he will block the physical attack and take a small amount of elemental damage.

Clear so far.

But if he has no resistance to the element, he may sometimes block the elemental attack, allowing the entire physical attack to get through!

So the order of damage application/hit checking is elemental damage before physical? I thought it was the other way around, so maybe that's where I was wrong and the reason why didn't understand why using a lightning sword is so good against warriors sporting duel equipment (Gotty & Co.). Did you mean that he may sometimes NOT block the elemental attack? Or am I wrong in all sorts of ways here? I can already tell I'll have to check with JG at home. <_<

Assuming he has Player Hostile on, that physical attack may stun him, possibly preventing him from blocking the next swing and putting him in big trouble.

Why does the Player Hostile setting matter? I know there's stun capability without having it on, at least for Rogues, because I keep stunning arties that walk into my line of fire when we're coop-ing.

You can't block while walking. In a warrior vs. warrior duel, I suspect it is to your advantage to wait for the other guy to step into your range. Trying to walk away from a warrior whom you have been blocking is probably suicide.

This is exactly what's been bothering me all the time. If two warriors with perfect blocking and no elemental weapons just swing at each other without moving, will the duel EVER end (assuming none of them is willing to start walking or casting)? If it's not possible, how can you expect to defeat a PK who has perfect blocking if you have a non-elemental weapon and what's the point of melee-only warrior duels in the first place?