How is damage from the 'hit fireball/lightning/etc' properties done?

[canary]

Anyone know how they are calculated, damage wise, once a successful hit is made? I've been trying to locate something on it to no avail.

 

[Yen Sid]

Fairly certain I read somewhere that it depends on your Evaluating Intelligence.

 

[The War Hero]

The damage is based on 70 eval int. It can be enhanced by both inscription and spell damage, but the player's eval plays no part in the damage.

 

[canary]

Thank you.

I was noticing two of my characters were doing vastly different amounts of damage, each holding a 'hit lightning' weapon. Must be the sdi on one of them.

 

[Yen Sid]

The damage is based on 70 eval int. It can be enhanced by both inscription and spell damage, but the player's eval plays no part in the damage.

Source?

 

[Old Man of UO]

All hit spell effects are based on 80 Eval Int, not a thing to do with inscription or any other skill.

But you know... trying to find a source. I do remember a UHall posting from a Developer on this, just can't locate it at the moment.

Found an FOF reference:
"On hit spell damage question. What level of magery/eval is the damage of the on hit spell calculated ( lightning, magic missile, fireball, harm)?"

The Evaluate Intelligence used for calculating the damage of on-hit spells is 80. The base damage is determined by the spell's circle - so Magic Missile has a base damage of 1d4 + 10, and so on. (For non-PnP folk, that means roll randomly between 1-4, then add 10.) Magery doesn't come into it at all, actually.

 

[Mr. Smither1]

There is also a bug if you have lighting on a slayer weapon bow. I imbued an ophidian slayer bow with hit lighting 50%. When the lighting hits I only get get normal bow damage of around 35+the lighting damage. When the lighting does not hit the target I hit for over 100 damage. It is not the damage number I can see the damage diff on the health bar of the target.