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And I have given eye losss to an SC after the first hit. So who is right? Shall we fight about it? My eye shield wielding SC vs. your eye shield wielding SC?

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I think that the attack has to miss into the exact range that the eyeshield improves defence by.

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If there's no MR check then any (non-spider etc.) attacker would be blind on the second round. That's easy to check if you're worried about it.

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What about Visions Foe - the blindness causing crossbow - does that have an MR check or just need to hit?

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No MR check on Vision's Foe.

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This is possible and even likely given the description of the eye shield. So is the MR check, but we currently do not know for certain.

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Frost brand is slightly more cost-effective, but i still preffer firebrand. With a dwarven hammer the firebrand is cheap enough, it is AP damage, and *Can* kill skellies and other (really common in this game) undeads.

There are way more cold inmune units than fire inmune ones in the game.

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I fully agree with you Triqui about the effectiveness of brands. Strangely, I always have more water gems to spend than earth gems, not to speak about the fire ones. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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What do the brands actually do? From the description I'd assumed it was normal (or AP) damage to the unit actually hit, and then fire or cold affect to the whole area. I'd originally assumed this was a minor affect, like chance of catching on fire or freezing, but it's actually the main damage.

Is the cold/fire damage the same as the weapon damage? Strength based? That makes little sense to me, but seems to match actual results.

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They use the weapon effects "small area fire", "small are frost" etc. I don't know how powerful those effects are.