Magic Resistance
 

Heart Finder Sword can be resisted with high MR, does penetration bonus work here?
And does it work on lifeless beings?

Re: Magic Resistance
 

1. No.
2. I don't any reason why not, but a quick test game can confirm it.

Re: Magic Resistance
 

Does magic resistance help avoiding non-combat spells which have magic damage instead of convential dmg, if there is any?

Re: Magic Resistance
 

Not unless the damage is resistable by MR. Magic damage is one type of damage, resistability is also a type of damage. A damage can have more than one type at the same time, such as fire and magic, magic and resistability etc.

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If you cast something like flaming arrows which makes your attack
magical and thus able to hurt etherial beings would it still be
considered a magic attack if you had 100% FR?

Re: Magic Resistance
 

Yes. Magical is a separate tag. It allows weapons to hurt ethereal beings, and magical arrows have a small increase to precision (the mechanic is not Precision, but something different where the arrow has a better chance of hitting a unit in the square it lands...whatever).

Re: Magic Resistance
 

Damn... Well thanks K, again.

Re: Magic Resistance
 

[quote=K;638311]Is this confirmed true? I've never heard of anything like this hidden precision bonus before.

Re: Magic Resistance
 

Kinda hard to say whether it's true, but it's in the manual. I don't have it handy to reference a page number, but look under missile mechanics- once it has been determined what square a missile lands in there is a check to see if it hits anyone in the square involving some peculiar calculations based on target size and, IIRC, magic missiles have a +2 on that check.

Re: Magic Resistance
 

[quote=Ironhawk;638919]Page 77 of the manual(look at the attacker calculation). According to a post by KO, Flaming Arrows makes the arrows magical, so they get this small bonus.