Death vs. Fire bless

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konming said:
While you are right secondary effects only applied with a successful strike of the primary weapon (verified using -ddddd), you are wrong about the to-hit probability thing.

How can I be right about the 1st and wrong about the 2nd?

I said that the secondary F9/D9 effect is only called upon a successful Attack roll of the primary weapon. If the primary weapon is not AN, then the primary weapon must defeat the shield parry, so the to-hit probability for the secondary F9/D9 attack does not change.

I suppose people are confusing the Attack and Damage rolls. My comments were specifically referencing the Attack rolls. Baalz stated that AN weapons ignore shield parry during Attack roll, and therefore implied that the D9 bless will produce a successful Attack roll more often against a shielded opponent than the F9 bless. While he's 100% correct that AN Attack rolls ignore shield parry, the F9/D9 damage are SECONDARY EFFECTS, and therefore do no have Attack rolls...only Damage rolls. Your to-hit probability (i.e. the probability of a successful Attack roll) doesn't change with a D9 bless.