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"Amarande" <nospam@lunasanguine.com> wrote in message
news:NmO_i.5290$K01.266@newsfe05.lga...
> ArtDent wrote:
>> On 14-Nov-2007, RJ <ss33ss33@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> u havent encountered the bug, when u do its bye bye
>>
>> Seriously?  There is nothing that can let you live through it?
>> Because I think I did get hit by it just a little bit ago.
>> My life ball went ALMOST empty.
>> From full to looking empty in the blink of an eye.
>> But, I did not die.
>> I sure came close, fingers are still a bit shaky, heh.
>> I have damage reduced by 27 total, and reduced by at least 10 percent
>> too.
>> Magic damage reduced by ~22 I think.
>>
>
> Sure it's not just the FE explosion getting a critical hit (if this can
> happen? Though ISTR that ALL monster attacks can critical, even ones that
> wouldn't be able to from a player)?
>
> In any case, regarding the original post, FE explosions appear to be
> similar to the ones from Corpse Explosion, so part fire and part physical
> damage, so fire res and damage reduced by % items do help.
>
> And the only FE "bugs" I know about don't really even concern FE alone,
> but rather FE in combination with other effects, specifically CE and LE
> (or scarab's lightning thing), which seem to apparently have the following
> results -
>
> a) FE + LE/scarab = Invisible FE explosion each time you trigger the bolts
>
> b) FE + CE = FE explosion and cold nova on death, but apparently these
> actually happen *twice* each
>
> c) CE + LE/scarab = Invisible cold nova each time you trigger the bolts
>
> d) FE + CE + LE/scarab = Invisible FE explosion AND cold nova (2 of each??
> Not sure) each time you trigger the bolts AND double dose of FE and CE
> damage on death
>
> Or is this a different bug?

This occures in NM games.  Run the council in Act 3 NM a dozen times... you
will most likely run into it.  Do it softcore though....   = D

Jaffir