Category:Defense ignoring abilities
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Defense ignoring abilities are damage dealing abilities that partially or wholly ignore at least one defense skill.
There are several specific types of such abilities:
- Shield ignoring: (a.k.a. death from above, DFA) Targets do not get to use their shield to defend against the attack, but make use of 130% of their Evasion skill to compensate. DFA spells also do slightly reduced base damage.
- Armor piercing: These are a type of spell that ignore a portion of a target's armor at the expense of slightly reduced base damage.
- Armor ignoring: These are abilities that ignore a portion or all of a target's armor.
Variations of abilities that ignore shield, armor, or other defenses that are combinations of the above mechanics or do not use the above specific mechanics do exist, and details about them can be found on each ability's page.
Currently existing shield ignoring abilities
Bolded spells are signature spells.
| Name | Effect | Type | Skill | Target | Contest | Prep Range |
Rank Range |
Duration | Slots | Mana Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burn | Puncture damage, Fire damage, Single target DFA. | battle | targeted, shield ignoring | PC, Creature | 7-50 | 80-800 | Instant | 2 | PC, Creature | |
| Harm Evil (HE) | Fire damage, Electrical damage, Undead/Demonic/Cursed-only single-strike attack that bypasses shield and armor. | battle | targeted, shield ignoring, armor ignoring | PC, Creature | 2-50 | 10-600 | Instant | 2 | PC, Creature | |
| Harm Horde (HH) | Fire damage, Electrical damage, Undead-only AoE attack that bypasses shield and armor. | battle | targeted, pulse damage, area of effect, shield ignoring, armor ignoring | Area | 15-100 | 80-800 | Instant | 3 | Area | |
| Eliminate | Attacks using Small Edged weapons ignore enemy's armor and shield. Lasts about 10 seconds. | debilitation, khri, shield ignoring, armor ignoring | finesse \ reflexes | 2 | ||||||
| Lightning Bolt (LB) | Fire damage, Electrical damage, Single target DFA. | battle | targeted, shield ignoring | PC, Creature | 7-50 | 80-800 | Instant | 2 | PC, Creature | |
| Soul Attrition (SA) | Slice damage, Cold damage, Spirit damage, Shield-ignoring single target. | cyclic | targeted, shield ignoring | PC, Creature | 6-31 | 80-800 | Indefinite | 2 | PC, Creature |
Currently existing armor piercing abilities
Bolded spells are signature spells.
| Name | Effect | Type | Skill | Target | Contest | Prep Range |
Rank Range |
Duration | Slots | Mana Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Advanced Combat Maneuvers | armor piercing, armor ignoring | |||||||||
| Frost Scythe (FRS) | Slice damage, Cold damage, armor piercing | battle | targeted, armor piercing | PC, Creature | 7-50 | 80-800 | Instant | 2 | PC, Creature | |
| Partial Displacement (PD) | Puncture damage, Impact damage, armor piercing, single target. | battle | targeted, armor piercing | PC, Creature | 2-50 | 10-600 | Instant | 2 | PC, Creature |
Currently existing armor ignoring abilities
Bolded spells are signature spells.
| Name | Effect | Type | Skill | Target | Contest | Prep Range |
Rank Range |
Duration | Slots | Mana Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Advanced Combat Maneuvers | armor piercing, armor ignoring | |||||||||
| Harm Evil (HE) | Fire damage, Electrical damage, Undead/Demonic/Cursed-only single-strike attack that bypasses shield and armor. | battle | targeted, shield ignoring, armor ignoring | PC, Creature | 2-50 | 10-600 | Instant | 2 | PC, Creature | |
| Harm Horde (HH) | Fire damage, Electrical damage, Undead-only AoE attack that bypasses shield and armor. | battle | targeted, pulse damage, area of effect, shield ignoring, armor ignoring | Area | 15-100 | 80-800 | Instant | 3 | Area | |
| Eliminate | Attacks using Small Edged weapons ignore enemy's armor and shield. Lasts about 10 seconds. | debilitation, khri, shield ignoring, armor ignoring | finesse \ reflexes | 2 |
Pages in category "Defense ignoring abilities"
The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.