Dulrik wrote:
As for the magma spray staff, I think that's lame. Some imm obviously decided to try to make the equivalent of the hell's wind staff now that it's not allowed anymore.

That staff has been in the game since before I started playing(previous to '00).
Given the changes made to staves a while ago, the max you can cram on it is two charges, since it comes with one. You can't spam brandish it anymore like you could years ago. I don't believe it's completely out of line like hells wind was.
Hellswind was so broken because it was one chain lightning for every person in the room, which is what staves are designed to do, but chain lightning -already- hit every person in the room multiple times just with a single casting. So with multiples going off you'd have everyone being hit by like 75 bolts of lightning, that's where the problem was. Magma spray doesn't have a cumulative effect, it's not broken in the way hellswind was.
Snuffles wrote:
You forgot to add polymorph there. Is it so hard for a sorc to charm a NPC, give him a weapon with reach, polymorph into a fire elemental using a scroll and go after a warlock?
Polymorphed fire elementals are no longer immune to fire damage, for some [REDACTED] reason beyond me.
