Hurl Boulder (510)

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Hurl Boulder (510)
Mnemonic [HURLBOULDER]
Duration Instantaneous
Attack Magic - Damage  
Subtype Bolt 
Target(s) Single 
Interval One-shot 
Damage Type Hitpoint 
Critical Type Impact 
Major Elemental Spells
Sleep (501) Attack
Chromatic Circle (502) Attack
Thurfel's Ward (503) Defensive
Slow (504) Attack
Hand of Tonis (505) Attack
Celerity (506) Utility
Elemental Deflection (507) Defensive
Elemental Bias (508) Defensive
Strength (509) Offensive
Hurl Boulder (510) Attack
Floating Disk (511) Utility
Cold Snap (512) Attack
Elemental Focus (513) Offensive
Stone Fist (514) Attack
Rapid Fire (515) Utility
Mana Leech (516) Utility
Charge Item (517) Utility
Cone of Elements (518) Attack
Immolation (519) Attack
Mage Armor (520) Defensive
Meteor Swarm (525) Attack
Elemental Disjunction (530) Attack
Haste (535) Utility
Temporal Reversion (540) Defensive
Time Stop (550) Utility

Hurl Boulder shoots a small boulder from the palm of the caster and slams into an opponent with devastating force. This is a bolt spell that uses the Spell Aiming skill.

In addition to hitpoint damage this spell can potentially cause impact critical injuries with their associated stuns, knockdowns, and instant deaths.

Usage

  • PREP 510 | CAST {target} or INCANT 510 to cast this spell
  • PREP 510 | CHANNEL {target} to channel the spell for additional damage/critical strength, incurring 3 sec. of hard RT
  • INCANT 510 CHANNEL to channel this spell once using INCANT
  • INCANT SET CHANNEL 510 to always channel this spell using INCANT 510

Lore Benefit

Training in Elemental Lore, Earth increases the spell's damage factor (DF).

Earth Lore Ranks
DF Increase
1 to 50
0.001 per rank
51 to 100
0.001 per two ranks
101 to 200
0.001 per four ranks
  • Note: Damage factor truncates at three decimal places.
E.g., with 126 ranks of EL: Earth the DF increase is:
(50 * 0.001) + (50/2 * 0.001) + trunc( 26/4) * 0.001) = 0.081 not 0.0815

Cone of Elements (518) can cast a multi-fire version of this spell with 20 ranks of Earth Lore and all damage factor increases will carry over to the other spell.

Bolt Spell Table

Spell AG Cloth Leather Scale Chain Plate
AsG 1 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
Hurl Boulder DF .710 .520 .460 .435 .440
AvD 40 40 39 38 37 40 38 36 34 40 36 32 28 40 34 28 22
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Channel Damage

CHANNELing a bolt spell imposes a 3 second hard roundtime in exchange for a higher chance of hitting a vital area and subjects the attack to less critical randomization. The critical randomization floor is raised by 1-2 ranks (depending on the actual critical) and the chance to hit every location is the same at 7.7%.

When a bolt is CAST/EVOKEd without CHANNELing, it has a little over 16% chance to hit the eyes, head, or neck. A CHANNELed bolt has over a 30% chance. Most of those locations will also result in a critical kill for ranks as low as 5 or 6, while it will take 7+ against the chest, abdomen, or back. If it is determined to be a rank 9 critical wound, critical randomization can lower that all the way down to a rank 5 (typically non-lethal against vital spots). If the same bolt is CHANNELed for the same rank 9 critical wound, crit randomization will not lower it less than a rank 7 (typically lethal against vital spots).

The roundtime imposed by channeling cannot be reduced by haste effects.

Messaging

Successful cast:

You intone a phrase of elemental power while raising your hands, invoking Hurl Boulder...
Your spell is ready.
You gesture at a hill troll.
You hurl a large boulder at a hill troll!
   AS: +262 vs DS: +132 with AvD: +40 + d100 roll: +70 = +240
   ... and hit for 94 points of damage!
   Impact removes the right hand in a spray of red mist!
The troll's war mattock falls to the ground.
   The hill troll is stunned!
Cast Roundtime 3 Seconds.

Alchemy Recipe

A faceted topaz wand
  1. Add crystalline solution
  2. Add powdered smoky topaz
  3. Simmer
  4. Add 2 doses of bear hide from black bears
  5. Boil
  6. Add coarse glittering earth
  7. Infuse
  8. Add s'ayanad crystal
  9. Chant Hurl Boulder (510)

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