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Re: Question re: the NM FE bug

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From: Jake_Mysterio
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 23:01
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"Mark P. Nelson" <markpnelson@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message 
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> "ArtDent" <par@noyd.invalidname> wrote in
> news:13jmfm7668o4d39@corp.supernews.com:
>
>> I am currently trying to build a clone killing pally.  I am in nm.  I
>> have killed quite a few bosses - including Hephasto - that were Fire
>> Enchanted, but my life ball only goes down about 10-20 percent.  Is
>> this because I am maxed on my resistances, or, is this because I have
>> items that give me 'damage reduced by x' as well as items that give me
>> 'damage reduced by x%' (I also have 'magic damage reduced by x')?  Or
>> have I just been 'lucky' so far and the next one could take me with
>> him when he goes?
>>
>
> I don't know for sure, but in my observations I get away with it often
> enough to lose my respect for the bug and then it kills me--BLAMMO!
>
> Sometimes you don't see the FE notice until you've already started to 
> zeal,
> and then it's already too late; you just have to hope either that you 
> don't
> kill him before you can put some distance between you or that this will be
> one of the lucky times.
>
> Mark.
>
> -- 
> While I'll admit that anyone can make a mistake once, to go on making
> the same lethal errors century after century seems to me nothing short
> of deliberate.--V.

I suffered the consequences of the bug the other day. I had my pally at 
level 75.5 and was almost able to wear his dracs when SPLAT!.. I didn't know 
there was a boss with FE on him and i went splat. :(

-- 
Jake Mysterio - The Mysterious One of Nothingness. 
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Subject: Re: Question re: the NM FE bug
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