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Originally posted by krunchyfrogg:
I already described in my above posts why electrical damage isn't as good as regular damage. No where did I state that electrical damage sucks.
Please tell me what spell protections that electrical damage will get through, where using a staff mace +2 will not.
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The only protection spell that will block physical, but not elemental, damage is Stoneskin, which of course doesn't exist in BG1. But for some reason, elemental damage is better at causing spell disruption: I have seen enemy Mages take multiple hits while casting and still get their spell off, but elemental damage seems guaranteed to make their spell fizzle.
This might be due to the fact that weapons like Ashideena simply deal two types of damage simultaneously. Let's say that each time a person takes damage while casting, there is an 80% chance that their spell will get disrupted.
Staff Mace: Caster takes 2D4+2 Blunt damage, has a 20% chance of completing spell
Ashideena: Caster takes 1D4+3 Blunt damage, has a 20% chance of completing spell, then takes 1 Electrical damage, now has a
4% chance of completing spell.