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Here's something to ponder: Does the Fire bless double with a Water bless?

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It isn't much of an issue to ponder.

Water bless grants quickness, quickness grants 1.5 actions, more actions means more attacks, more attacks means more secondaryeffect fire bless.

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So water bless + fire bless + quickness boots on, say, a Devata with 4 swords of swiftness, would give you somewhere around 24 attacks, 28 with their natural kick attack. Seeing as they have the air path, and can fly + air shield, that's pretty fun.

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No, I'm not saying the fire effect is an extra attack, it isn't. It's an extra effect added to the standard weapon attack.

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What's the difference?

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I guess the difference is that the fire damage always hits the same person as the weapon which produces it.

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And doesn't cause an additional Defense reduction in the target.

Think of it like the Small Area Fire from a Firebrand, but it only hits the one target, not the entire square.

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How bizarre. I don't know why, but that just somehow blows my mind. I think I must be very tired...

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Hah! I knew I had seen a discussion about the need for mod nation guides back when the world was young. Erm... in 2007 I mean. Thanks to the resident necromancers for digging it up for me. ;)

To get the thread back on topic: I've written a quite extensive guide on Arga Dis here: http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showthread.php?t=38517, for those who haven't come across it yet. Unfortunately, it's not of a size to allow copy/pasting it into this thread, as the shorter playing guides in the beginning of the thread, but links work almost just as well, right? :)

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And it only activates if the weapon its attached to hits,.. and /possibly/ only if that weapon damages (this is untested, I only mention it because that seems to be how melee poison secondaryeffects work.

Firebrand I believe is small area fire as a secondaryeffectalways so even if you miss, as long as you swing, it activates.