Elemental Lore, Air

Elemental Lore, Air is a widely used lore used by mainly bards and wizards for the benefits it adds to many of the Sonic spells used by bards and the increases in various air base spells, such as Hand of Tonis, for wizards. Sorcerers also often train in this skill minimally for the benefits it adds to Dark Catalyst.

Major Elemental

• Slow (504)

A target successfully warded by slow, will have an additional one second of roundtime at 100 skill (24 ranks) of air lore, two seconds at 200 skill (100 ranks), and three seconds at 300 skill (200 ranks) of air lore.

• Hand of Tonis (505)

Twenty ranks of Air Lore make Hand of Tonis into a bolt spell that deals Unbalance crits with a high chance of a knockdown and stun. This spell is only in bolt form from stances neutral and ones more offensive, in guarded and defensive the spell is still the warding version. Training in Air Lore beyond twenty ranks increases the damage factor by .001 up to 50 ranks, whereupon it changes to a .0005 increase.

• Haste (506)

At 100 skill of air lore (24 ranks), A wizard's haste will decrease roundtime by an additional one second. Roundtimes will be further decreased by two seconds at 200 skill (100 ranks) and by three seconds at 300 skill (200 ranks).

• Floating Disk (511)

Ten ranks of Air Lore make the Wizard's disk increase capacity from eight item slots to nine. A maximum capicity of twenty item slots is achieved at 186 ranks of air lore. Uses the summation chart.

Wizard Base

• Minor Shock (901)

• Major Shock (910)

• Call Wind (912)

Training in air lore will give the Wizard a chance of forming a windy vortex when casting Call Wind. A 2% chance of summoning a vortex occurs at five ranks, while the maximum of 30% is achieved at 200 ranks of air lore.

• Sandstorm (914)

Air lore increases the duration of a sandstorm and the damaged caused by it.

Bard Base

• Stunning Shout (1008)

Every three (3) ranks of EL:Air lore will increase the damage inflicted by a successful result by one (1) additional Hit Point.

• Sonic Equipment Songs, three of them

For all three of the "Sonic Equipment Songs" (Shield, Weapon, and Armor), each rank of EL:Air will increase their DUrability (used in comparing items when they clash in combat, to determine which--if any--will be subject to being broken) by the standard amount for skills progression: +5/rank for ten ranks, then +4/rank for ten ranks, +3/rank for ten ranks, +2/rank for ten ranks, and finally by +1/rank for all additional ranks. This is usually called the "5/4/3/2/1 rank progression", and is followed for all skills available through the Character Manager except for Spell Research.

• Sonic Shield Song (1009)

At twenty (20) ranks of EL:Air skill, the effective size--for purposes of calculating hindrance to Dodge--of a Bard's Sonic Shield is reduced by one (1) step, so a Tower sized Sonic Shield would only hinder the Bard to the extent that a normal Large shield would.

At fifty (50) ranks of EL:Air skill, the effective size is reduced by one (1) more (a total of -2 size reduction), so a Tower sized Sonic Shield would hinder as a normal Medium shield.

At one hundred (100) ranks of EL:Air skill, the effective size is further reduced by one (1) (a total of -3 size reduction), so a Tower sized Sonic Shield would hinder the Bard's Dodge as though it were a normal Small shield.

• Sonic Weapon Song (1012)

Training in EL:Air will first give, and then increase, the possibility of a Bard's chosen Sonic Weapon flaring a second time. Sonic Weapon Song already has the best inherent flares in the game: they have the possibility of flaring on consecutive swings, and that is very uncommon outside of ridiculously rare/expensive items.

The second flare that Sonic Weapon Song has is independent of the first flare, and the two flares have different messaging; the second flare is indicated by "With a loud snap" (and then additional text which I do not recall). Since this flare is independent, it is possible to have a swing which generates no flare, one (normal) flare, one (second) flare, or two (one each normal and second) flares. While this is superficially similar to the Paladin spell which also confers second flares, the Paladins can only get their second flare on a swing which generates the primary flare.

Both flares draw from the same critical hit chart, so it is entirely possible to get only minor hits (add 5 hit points of damage) for both... or to get major hits (add 40-75 hit points of damage, break/sever limbs, instant death) for both. (If the primary flare kills, of course, the second never gets a chance to activate.)

• Sonic Armor (1014)

Apart from the increases in DUrability mentioned above, training in EL:Air does nothing for Sonic Armor Song.

• Song of Tonis (1035)

This Song normally provides some ranks of Dodge to the Bard's group while it is active; with additional training in EL:Air these ranks are increased. The rank progression does not follow one of the normal Lore "seed" patterns. One (1) additional rank of Dodge is conferred at one (1) rank of EL:Air; a maximum of twenty (20) additional ranks of Dodge are conferred at ninety six (96) ranks of EL:Air.

At thirty (30) ranks of EL:Air, Song of Tonis gives an additional one (1) second of RoundTime reduction to the Bard's party (-1s is inherent in the spell effect; a total of -2s at this skill level).

At seventy five (75) ranks of EL:Air, Song of Tonis gives still another one (1) second (a total of -2s from this skill and -1s from the spell, for -3s total) reduction.

Sorcerer Base

• Dark Catalyst (719)

Despite being a Sorcerer spell, Dark Catalyst is affected only by Elemental Lores. All four Lores affect only the damage from the respective element during Dark Catalyst's cycle. It is not based on the Summation Chart, but instead on a mysterious equation. It is known, however, that returns for this spell from training in Elemental Lores diminish after ten ranks.

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