Cone of Elements (518)

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Cone of Elements (518)
Mnemonic [CONEELEM]
Duration Instant
Attack Magic - Damage  
Subtype Bolt 
Target(s) All creatures 
Interval One-shot 
Damage Type Hitpoint 
Critical Type Variable 
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

Cone of Elements causes a bolt of elemental energy to arc to a large number of enemies in the room.

When using this spell, the caster's attunement will determine the type of bolt. If no attunement is set, or the caster is attuned to "random", it will randomly choose between fire, cold, earth, air, or lightning damage. There is also the option to specify the type of element the caster would like to use if they meet the lore requirements for that type (e.g. 'EVOKE COLD', 'CAST FIRE').

Base elemental effects are achieved by casting AoE versions of the following spells:

Usage

Cone of Elements is an open cast spell that does not require the specification of a target.

  • EVOKE will use a group friendly version and hit up to [5 + (Elemental Mana Control Skill ÷ 50)] targets. This version of the spell will also hit hidden and invisible targets. On a successful hit, the target will fall out of hiding/invisibility.
  • CAST/INCANT {element} or EVOKE {element} will specify the element of the bolt (see below for lore requirements).

Lore Benefits

Bolt Element Specification

By having specific combinations of lore training, it is possible to unlock the use of AoE versions of the following options:

  • Specifying any of the five base elements (fire, water, earth, lightning, air) requires 20 ranks of the appropriate lore (e.g. 20 ranks of Elemental Lore, Fire will allow the casting of the Minor Fire (906) version of cone). Being attuned to the element will negate this requirement.

Increased Damage Factors and Additional Lore Benefits

Cone of Elements use of specific spells includes their respective damage factor increases and additional bonus effects based on lore training. Please see the appropriate spell pages (as listed above) for more information on any given variant.

Mana Control Benefit

Training in Elemental Mana Control will increase the number of targets hit.

CAST version (player friendly)
# of targets = [2 + (Elemental Mana Control skill bonus ÷ 75)]
EVOKE version (group friendly)
# of targets = [5 + (Elemental Mana Control skill bonus ÷ 50)]
Elemental Mana Control ranks 10 17 24 50 100 125 150 200 250
Total # of targets CAST/INCANT 2 3 3 4 4 5 5 6 6
Total # of targets EVOKE 6 6 7 8 9 9 10 11 12

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