Major Cold (907)

Major Cold (907) Mnemonic [MAJORCOLD] Duration Instantaneous Attack Magic - Damage   Subtype Bolt  Target(s) Single  Interval One-shot  Damage Type Hitpoint  Critical Type Cold

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 Cold is a ball spell based on the cold element. As with all bolt spells, the Attack Strength for this spell is determined by Dexterity bonus and Spell Aiming bonus. Training in Elemental Lore, Water increases the spell's damage factor and potential splash targets. Potential splash targets are also affected by Multi Opponent Combat.

Usage

• PREP 907 | CAST {target} or INCANT 907 to cast this spell
• PREP 907 | CHANNEL {target} to channel the spell for additional damage/critical strength, incurring 3 sec. of hard RT
• INCANT 907 CHANNEL to channel this spell once using INCANT
• INCANT SET CHANNEL 907 to always channel this spell using INCANT 907

Lore Benefits

Damage Factor Bonus

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

Water 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, Water lore is 0.100.

Potential Splash Targets

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

• Lore Skill Modifier = (1 + √8 * [Elemental Lore, Water 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, Water contributes to both of the values from which the smaller number is chosen.)

Elemental Lore, Water 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, Water 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 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 Cold	DF	.445	.350				.245				.217				.208
	AvD	65	55	54	53	52	45	43	41	39	40	36	32	28	35	29	23	17

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 azure rod
Add wand oil Add 3 doses of slender twig Boil Add ground polished blue coral Simmer Add s'ayanad crystal Infuse Add runed azure crystal Chant Major Cold (907)

Resources

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