Frostblade - How does it work?

It adds water damage to physical attack. That's about it.

Oh...and it makes your hand shiny. Normally spammed to build Chi because of fast cast time.

That's about it really.

the description is terribly misleading. It has nothing to do with magic attack at all, it simply adds the 30% (at level 10.. higher for sage/demon versions) weapon damage to normal attacks. That doesn't mean a straight 30% increase in damage (or even close), because normal hits take into account the base physical attack, masteries, buffs, str, etc etc. It's just a very very small increase (less than 10% in most cases.. during triple spark probably in the 2-5% increase to damage). You should also note that it won't add any damage if you don't have your weapon equipped, but it is sometimes useful to buff melee classes in pvp so their skills can still hit immune to physical targets (the damage is ****, but the effects work). So if a BM friend of mine is fighting some psychic for example, psychic uses psy will to become immune to physical (kinda like expel), the BM can still use stuns like drake bash without it getting totally resisted.. so the stun will still work. Hope that helped

After many trials and calculations i got to the conclusion that it:

Adds to EACH SINGLE MELEE/RANGED NORMAL HIT a water damage equal to 30% of the TARGET's WEAPON PHYSICAL ATTACK.

I mean it calculates the 30% of the weapon and ONLY the weapon. no base damage. no equip damage. no shards damage. And the weapon took in consideration is the one of the target of the buff, not the weapon of the wizard.

Example:

I buff a BM that has an axe that has 500-900 physical atk. he averagely deals 2000 dmg with normal hits.
After buffed, he will deal 2000+(900+500/2)*30/100 = 2000+210 = 2210 average damage.

Jellytoast - Sanctuary wrote: »

So it is absolutely useless to cast on yourself besides getting chi, yeah?

yes unless you hit mobs with your magic sword instead of casting a spell