Major Fire (908)

Major Fire (908) Mnemonic [MAJORFIRE] Duration Instantaneous Attack Magic - Damage   Subtype Bolt  Target(s) Single  Interval One-shot  Damage Type Hitpoint  Critical Type Fire

Wizard Base Spells Minor Shock (901) Attack Minor Elemental Edge (902) Offensive Minor Water (903) Attack Minor Acid (904) Attack Prismatic Guard (905) Defensive Minor Fire (906) Attack Major Cold (907) Attack Major Fire (908) Attack Tremors (909) Attack Major Shock (910) Attack Mass Blur (911) Defensive Call Wind (912) Attack Melgorehn's Aura (913) Defensive Sandstorm (914) Attack Weapon Fire (915) Attack Invisibility (916) Utility Earthen Fury (917) Attack Duplicate (918) Utility Wizard's Shield (919) Defensive Call Familiar (920) Utility Enchant (925) Utility Familiar Gate (930) Utility Core Tap (950) Utility

Major Fire is a ball of roaring fire which is flung at one's foe. Occasionally, the fire will splash, causing additional damage to the original target or striking other opponents within the area. Damage capability and number of targets hit by the splash can be increased by training in Elemental Lore, Fire.

Usage

• PREP 908 | CAST {target} or INCANT 908 to cast this spell
• PREP 908 | CHANNEL {target} to channel the spell for additional damage/critical strength, incurring 3 sec. of hard RT
• INCANT 908 CHANNEL to channel this spell once using INCANT
• INCANT SET CHANNEL 908 to always channel this spell using INCANT 908

Lore Benefit

Training in Elemental Lore, Fire provides two benefits:

Potential Splash Targets

The number of targets hit by a ball spell is determined by the following calculation using Elemental Lore, Fire and Multi Opponent Combat (MOC):

• Lore Skill Modifier = (1 + √8 * [Elemental Lore, Fire Ranks] - 7) / 2
• First Roll is a random number from 0 to 8
• Second Roll is a random number from 0 to [First Roll + Lore Skill Modifier]
• The number of targets is the smaller number of [First Roll + Lore Skill Modifier] and [Second Roll + MOC Ranks].

(As such, training in Elemental Lore, Fire contributes to both of the values from which the smaller number is chosen.)

Elemental Lore, Fire ranks 0 1 2 4 7 11 16 22 29 37 46 56 Possible additional splashes 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Elemental Lore, Fire ranks 67 79 92 106 121 137 154 172 191 211 232 Possible additional splashes 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22

Damage Factor Bonus

Training in Fire Lore increases the spell's damage factor (DF).

Fire 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

The total DF increase with 200 ranks EL, Fire lore is 0.100.

Damage Factor 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
Major Fire	DF	.400	.333				.270				.256				.244
	AvD	70	60	59	58	57	50	48	46	44	45	41	37	33	40	34	28	22

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.

Alchemy Recipe

A slender crimson rod
Add wand oil Add 3 doses of slender twig Boil Add powdered citrine quartz Simmer Add s'ayanad crystal Infuse Add runed crimson crystal Chant Major Fire (908)

Resources

• Wizard Base Spell Circle: Major Fire, on Play.net