Elemental Targeting (425)

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Elemental Targeting (425) Mnemonic [ELEMTARG] Base Duration 1200 sec Added Duration +60 sec per MnE rank Span Stackable Offensive Magic - Enhancement   Subtype AS , Elemental CS  Enhancement +25 AS Bonus +25 CS Bonus  Availability Self-cast

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The Elemental Targeting spell provides a base bonus of +25 to both physical and bolt AS, and a +25 CS base bonus to elemental base spells which include (Minor Elemental, Major Elemental, Wizard and Bard Base). There is an additional bonus of +1 for every two ranks above 25. The total bonus is capped at +50 with 75 MnE ranks.

Overtraining past a character's level in the MnE circle will not increase the bonus.

Note: Although the Bard Base circle is considered a mental/elemental hybrid, bard spells currently receive the full bonus.

Bonus Calculation

AS / Elemental CS Bonus = 25 + trunc[(MnE ranks - 25) ÷ 2]

For example, with 52 MnE spell ranks the bonus is:

25 + trunc[(52 - 25) ÷ 2] = 38

Sorcerer Base Bonus

Due to their spiritual/elemental hybrid nature, Sorcerer Base spells only receive half the normal bonus. The sorcerer base bonus is +13 with an additional +1 bonus for every four MnE ranks above 25. The CS bonus is capped at +25 with 73 MnE spell ranks.

Sorcerer Base bonus = 13 + trunc[(MnE ranks - 25) ÷ 4]

For example, with 52 MnE spell ranks the bonus is:

13 + trunc[(52 - 25) ÷ 4] = 19

Note: Other non-elemental / non-spiritual spell circles (not yet implemented) are expected to receive the same bonus as the sorcerer base.

Spiritual Base Spells

Spiritual base spells do not receive a CS bonus from Elemental Targeting. These spell circles include, Minor Spiritual, Major Spiritual, Cleric Base, Empath Base and Paladin Base.

Lore Benefits

Elemental Lore, Fire grants a chance to cause your next spell to be charged with elemental energy based on the seed 10 summation of ranks known. If a spell is cast within 10 seconds of gaining this charge, and the spell's damage type matches the caster's elemental attunement, the spell will gain a critical rank of weighting over its original power.

Notes:

• The caster can gain the crit weighting on bolts, CS spells, and elemental weapon/armor flares.
• The effect applies to one hit of a spell/spell like ability, so if the caster gain the spell and cast cone, only the first hit will be impacted.
• The effect can be triggered off of any portion of a spell or spell/like ability, so it is possibly (though improbable) a consecutive cast of cone will have nothing but hits with weighting.
• The caster must be attuned to something to gain the ability, and only the casters attuned spell attacks will benefit from it.
• Attuning to random will still use the casters attuned element, so a caster will still get a flare if they're not currently focusing on they're element of choice.
• The crit weighting is applied before crit randomization, so it can be reduced by crit randomization.

Messaging

Initial cast

You are filled with a sense of great confidence.

Wearing off

You feel less confident than before.

Lore benefit

{Attuned element} elemental energy energizes you.

Resources

• Elemental lore review (saved posts)
• Minor Elemental Spell Circle: Elemental Targetting, on Play.net