Lightning or Fire imbue?

madsoul · Post by **madsoul** » Sat Jul 15, 2006 6:06 am

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

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Resist · Post by **Resist** » Sat Jul 15, 2006 8:04 am

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.

drey7000 · Post by **drey7000** » Sat Jul 15, 2006 8:13 am

wat do u mean by "splash damage"?

FireStorm · Post by **FireStorm** » Sat Jul 15, 2006 9:57 am

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).

madsoul · Post by **madsoul** » Sat Jul 15, 2006 12:16 pm

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

PhiteR · Post by **PhiteR** » Sat Jul 15, 2006 5:54 pm

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.

IguanaRampage · Post by **IguanaRampage** » Sat Jul 15, 2006 6:24 pm

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

madsoul · Post by **madsoul** » Sun Jul 16, 2006 2:38 pm

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.

ShizKnight · Post by **ShizKnight** » Sun Jul 16, 2006 3:59 pm

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

twin8620 · Post by **twin8620** » Mon Jul 17, 2006 8:11 am

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

kitary · Post by **kitary** » Mon Jul 17, 2006 9:06 am

lightning , very good for things like chains and stuff in pvm
Mobs dont pill

players will basicaly pill away the shock effects realy fast
you will only get effect from a shock efect on the hit the cousses it , than it gets pilled away , if your lucky you might land in a second hit befor its effects are pilled if your using chain , or follow up with a realy fast move , but dont count on it

also the effects of lightning has only 20% chance to cast
and fire and cold have 25% , ( yeah JM why's light so gimped !! ><)

the effects of fire in pvp is like this
you burn some one , he gets burn damage he pills it away

infact fire has like 25% chance to do extra damage per hit you do
where as ligtning just has 20% chance that you will do more damage than normal

fire is the crowds favorite imbue for pvp , specialy sinds cold is being raped by 100% cold reduse people now
But infact every one can get 100% reduse for all elements , fire lightning cold zombie and poisen

So when you take in acount that non of the elements actualy have any side effects than the power ballance would look like this

low ---------> high
cold - lightning- fire

fire has the best mag damage add wile cold has the crappest damage add
but ligtning still has its splash damage . with kinda counts for something couse its splash damage is a % of the damage done by the skill your using atm
for some skills this can be pretty good damage
the down side is lightning dusnt splash on skills that already have a aoe effect , so that leaves out things like 2nd boob fire nuke , shock lion shout , lightning nuke , 2nd book cold nuke , a few glaive skills
aoe knockdown skill from bisheon , autum wind flame series , explosive arrow series , and mabe some others that i forgot here

madsoul · Post by **madsoul** » Mon Jul 17, 2006 2:44 pm

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

Wuyazi · Post by **Wuyazi** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 12:27 am

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.....

bleaK · Post by **bleaK** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 12:29 am

from personal experience..

fire imbue > light imbue. in all scenarios.

im a nuker btw.

watchyourass · Post by **watchyourass** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 12:55 am

i think lightning, coz its has splash damage

doganm · Post by **doganm** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 3:02 am

fer me....i'd go wit light imbue....coz light is the best skill tree
xP
whoot

i didn't even go into fire

Brutish1 · Post by **Brutish1** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 3:37 am

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.

Luye · Post by **Luye** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 4:20 am

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

drey7000 · Post by **drey7000** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 6:39 am

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...

madsoul · Post by **madsoul** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 7:08 am

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