Wow lol so much bs posts. Here I'll sum it up for everyone who doesnt know.
Lightning imbue does everything fire does besides burn damage. Its status effect is lower parry ratio. Now since lightning can transfer between multiple targets that are close enough the stun effect form a stun move can be transfered to multiple persons ( I, on my lvl 64 glaiver have stunned 4 people @ once)Im not sure if it can transfer ice, frost nova + light imbue? Ill have to test that one out myself. Now I have seen a blader 80 cap kd 5 people at once. I do not know if that is the skills ability of because he was using light (he was using light) Now as far as builds go FIRE is essential to a str build period. Now while glaivers usually use fire alot a bow for instance would want to use light because of the added parry reduce, which = more crits from their already high crit bow skills. I use fire and light in conjunction light before I do a big fire imbued attack so I hit harder due to their parry being reduced.
Now as far as the fire shield series they only prevent the following status effects: Freeze/Frost bite, Burn, Poison, Zombie, and Shock. Stun is an effect BUT it is NOT reduced by fire shield series. Nor is Darkness. And KD is not a status effect because it does not project an icon near your buffs/imbue/status effect icon area.
I hope this helps all the people who are new to the game or arguing over this because I know what im talking about. Anyone who says otherwise to what I stated above is a /b/tard and a moron.

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