Elemental Damage on Weapons - Skandranon - MongoJerry,May 17 2006, 12:05 PM Wrote:That's really interesting, Zarathustra.Thanks! This brings up another question for those who have killed Viscidus. There seems to be some disagreement about what causes him to freeze up. My guildmates are convinced that the only thing that counts are spells and abilities that cause a. How do you kill Viscidus in Shadowlands? N64 emulators. The raid is required to get as many frost attacks into Viscidus as possible so that he will go through his several emotes and freeze. After he is frozen, a number of melee attacks must be done to shatter him into 20 or so small blobs. The raid must then kill these blobs in order to reduce Viscidus’ health. Rogues and Warriors can bring Frost damage weapons to the raid such as Hammer of the Northern Wind, Coldrage Dagger, or Darrowspike. In the event enough of the melee in the raid have frost weapons, they can contribute to the speed of freezing Viscidus during Phase 1.
ClassicBlizzard has clarified that the extra elemental damage from weapons like Thunderfury is working as intended in WoW Classic.
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Pretty much all of these types of weapons don't do any additional frost damage or other school of damage, only physical. I've tested this multiple times in prep for Viscidus in AQ40 with iceblade hacker, I did have the frost bolt proc weapons prior to that and they work fine.
This means you don't get frost dmg added to a weapon that states it does additional frost damage.
Frost Damage Weapons For Viscidus
I do remember a bug back in Wotlk with an axe from Storm Peaks rep that caused multiple embue's to proc twice which these weapons may of been effected during the hotfix during 3.0.3
item: brunnhildar axe
These are the weapons i've tested so far with no additional frost damage outside of the proc itself there's no base +5 frost damage.
item: iceblade hacker
item: warblade of caer darrow
item: cobalt crusher
Thanks blizz
We wanted to take a moment to clarify that the extra elemental damage from weapons such as Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker, Iceblade Hacker, and Warblade of Caer Darrow are behaving as expected in WoW Classic and do not actually cause additional non-physical damage to the target. They do however still inflict extra damage in the amount specified in the tooltips. This is not noted in the combat log separately and is simply calculated as additional physical damage added to the weapon's attack.
That being said, it has been noticed by players that when using an elemental barrier such as a nature/frost/fire protection potion or a shield that absorbs a specific element, you will see an “absorbed (X)” message in the combat log. This is also correct and working as expected, and such effects will reduce the damage of attacks by such weapons by the amount of extra elemental damage specified in the weapon tooltip.
Can Frost Action Damage Be Repaired
Ultimately the way these weapons function is a very old quirk/bug with how original World of Warcraft was built. While definitely strange and unintuitive, these weapons are behaving exactly as they did in the original game and we have no intention of changing them to behave differently in WoW Classic.Frost Dmg Weapons For Viscidus
I hope this helps provide some clarity around this very odd quirk inherent to these types of weapons!Get Wowhead Premium
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