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936, RE: Discussion on Wrath type damage.
Posted by incognito on Wed 31-Dec-69 07:00 PM
>Alright, we know this: wrath is a kind of divine damaging, it
>being the wrath of some god upon high.
>
>I was told this: Its not restricted to 'good only' type
>weapons or even a 'good' based damage or anything.
>
>So why: Are the races that are hurt most by it mostly 'evil'

mostly isn't the same as all. Clouds are wrath vuln.

>(with an exception that have a divine vuln curse) and paladins
>immune. Well, most of the time. Why is it a paladin can gain
>immunity from any kind of wrathing god that channels through a
>weapon but an AP can't?
>

AP's have nothing to do with divine power. Paladins have.

>Ontop of that, to get a wrath resistance, you get
>resist_positive. Works for all wrathing weapons, including the
>few evil_only wrathing ones.
>

Wrath from an evil god is still positive energy.

>Also, I would question why wrath appears only on most 'good'
>weapons, while evil ones tend towards defilement. Yet we still
>have 'evil only' weapons out there that do wrath damage. Not
>only is this useless against paladins and the like, but it
>rarely does more damage against 'good' aligns, such as elves.

Actually the wrath attack cuts through certain resistances.

>I've noticed a weaker sword (steel) did more damage against a
>certain bunch of elves I fight often than this 'evil_only'
>wrathing sword.

MAybe the wrathing sword was of higher level than its wielder, and the weaker sword wasn't.

> Maybe they're resistant to it, some kind of
>resist_positive.
>
>Feel free to offer counter arguments and such, I'm never
>perfect on my arguments anyway. Anyone wants to support me
>with corrections, hoorah!
>
>What I really want, get all these evil_only_wrath_thingies to
>change to defilement or something else. Sounds easier than
>going through and changing resist_positive, paladin mobs and
>PC's and even the elves. Discuss ppl!

I think it is ok as is. There is a difference between wrath and defilement. Think of it as something like the difference between a burn and withering. An evil god might do either of these, but burning is positive (a la wrath) and withering is negative (a la defilement).