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Which is stronger? Lightning or Fire nuke?

Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 10:25 am
by Mefra
Hey guys, the title says it. Which of the nukes is stronger. I thought it was fire, but sometimes I read that the lightning nuke is stronger.

If the lightning nuke is stronger, then what is the point of having a fire as a pure int (except of the imbue, which is stronger).

Re: Which is stronger? Lightning or Fire nuke?

Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 10:30 am
by Grim
Well.. Light nuke is actually stronger in raw dmg... Most like fire because of the 3rd book is AeO. You get a stronger imbue in fire which gives more mag. dmg. There are also many buff with fire such as the fire shield emporer/elemental def one(Cant think of name). The 2nd book of fire is better then the 1st book of lightning..

-Grim

Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 10:43 am
by Mefra
What do you mean with AeO?

Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 10:48 am
by JustAGuy
AoE=Area of Effect it means that u can hit more then one monster with one hit

Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 10:51 am
by Mefra
Okay thanks.

Quite tricky to make the build you really want ;-)

Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 10:54 am
by juntakashi
Light nuke has transfer ( hits 3 but dmg gets weaker when get transferred), needs more mana, longer cooldown, shorter casting range

in PvP u wun use light nuke cuz fire has longer range, abit less mana, less cooldown and 2nd bk of fire is better than 2nd bk of light IMO

u use light nuke for mob so u can kill more than 1 at 1 time

Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 11:01 am
by Mefra
Right now I'm lvl 21 (farming with 8 lvl gap) with heuksal, lightning and fire. I'm still not sure what build I want ;-) At the 90 cap it's gonna be:

Heuksal 69
Lightning 90
Fire 90

But when the cap raises I'm probably gonna lower heuksal again...

Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 1:27 pm
by shadowman20875
Mefra wrote:Right now I'm lvl 21 (farming with 8 lvl gap) with heuksal, lightning and fire. I'm still not sure what build I want ;-) At the 90 cap it's gonna be:

Heuksal 69
Lightning 90
Fire 90

But when the cap raises I'm probably gonna lower heuksal again...

not a good idea, you'll want the 4th book of ghost and soul

Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 5:33 pm
by egyptology
Contrary to popular belief, light nuke is stronger at higher levels for nukes. Fire only causes more damage over time b/c of burn (but that's more useful for glaiviest/bladers). Light transfers damage and in addition the one hit first gets damaged the most.

Most pure ints know this. I however stuck to fire for my new pure int simply b/c attract multiple mobs = bad for pure int spear....I can one hit everything with a single nuke anyway, so more damage isn't needed.

But yeah.

Overall, the light nuke is stronger, however, people really choose fire b/c of cool down times and range (fire = more massive). Ice has a higher range than fire, but is much weaker. So, it's a trade off. (ice looks cooler thogh).

Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 6:22 pm
by Garrett
The light nuke isn't stronger per se, but the high end of it's hit spectrum is higher than the fire nuke which means it CAN be stronger, not it IS stronger.

Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 8:41 pm
by winnifred
I found that light nuke is stronger versus some mobs and fire stronger against other mobs :S