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One question. Is Lightning or Fire imbue better for a hybrid spear user?

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Weeell, fire deals most dmg and is pvp minded. Lightning has splash damage and is therefor guild war minded.

Up to you

Most people go fire.

wat do u mean by "splash damage"?

Splash damage means that when you hit one monster you deal damage to the nearby monsters aswell (but very small amount, which is bad in the most of the situations).

Ok. Is the parry ratio reduction from the lightning imbue effective cos i dun really see many ppl using it?

madsoul wrote:Ok. Is the parry ratio reduction from the lightning imbue effective cos i dun really see many ppl using it?

I use it, and I can honestly say I see a difference with it on. It may not be a whole lot, but it's saved me my potting several times, taking less damage > not.

The parry ratio reduce is effective. However, the fire does more dmg, whereas light will do a bit more dmg once u get the parry reduce on them. But, lightning attracts un-wanted mobs, which can be a hastle if youre an int build and dont have many pots. Also, later on, you dont want to attract many mobs, because multiple mobs+lag = death for int build. I would go fire. Good dmg

lol. Thanks for tht input, but sad to say i have taken lightning imbue to book 2. so shld i juz continue it? btw, im int hybrid sword.

Ya, go with it. If you're hybrid Int, you shouldn't have a problem taking on a few extra mobs.

don't listen to people who don't know what they are talking about. lightning is a good imbue to pick if you do. fire has like a 100-200 more dmg which isn't alot imo. a very popular build in korea sro is pure int lightning. you shouldn't be getting mobbed if your playing smart and not dumb. and also a pure int or hybrid int should be grinding on things they can 1 shot anyways. by the way i'm a lvl 70 pure int lighting as my main, fire secondary and i do just fine

Oh i see.. so I guess lightning isn't really cut for pvp.

On a side note. I'm not intending to get nukes for my char. I'll just be using bicheon skills with imbues-int hybrid. I guess thats fine? haha

Well for me I have both imbues......And I am staisfied with both actually.......I use fire if im fighting one on one with a monster or player......But if I get mobbed (always do) I use a lightning imbue......The splash dmg is good and every little bit helps I say......It may attract mobs but sometimes those mobs are the ones that you want to kill for quest items.....

from personal experience..

fire imbue > light imbue. in all scenarios.

im a nuker btw.

i think lightning, coz its has splash damage

fer me....i'd go wit light imbue....coz light is the best skill tree
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i didn't even go into fire

One other nice thing about light and spear/glaive. The light splash can carry the soul spear stun. Lets you stun more than 1 mob even though the main damage only hits 1.

heh fire is nice, sometimes the burn does just enuf to kill that little notch of hp you don't take off

in many levels, or may be even, in most levels, u will be getting mobbed anyway, so normally lightning isnt the cause of of most deaths its the fact that people run into an area they shouldnt be in....
i use lightning and i love the way the damage splashes, especially wen it turns out the way i want it to... also, the lightning nuke (lvl30), is pretty good to attack 3 close by enemies, but just to start off... a stupid thing i see many people doing, is using nukes such asshock lion series, wen a normal attack could do far more and waste less mp...in my opinion, this is just dumb...nukes should only be used to start off a fight....at least thats how i feel...

wow. Thanks for all your opinions. Didn't expect that many replies. haha.