Hurl Boulder (510)

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

With the Hurl Boulder spell, a small boulder is shot from the palm of the caster and slams into an opponent with devastating force. This is an elemental attack 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

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

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
Add crystalline solution Add powdered smoky topaz Simmer Add 2 doses of bear hide from black bears Boil Add coarse glittering earth Infuse Add s'ayanad crystal Chant Hurl Boulder (510)

Resources

• Major elemental Spells: Hurl Boulder, on Play.net