Elemental Weakness

A favorite of Witches and other masters of magic, the Elemental Weakness curse strips away resistances to cold, fire and lightning. Once afflicted by the curse, an enemy will suffer grievous harm from any elemental attack, even if they have natural resistances.

Curses all targets in an area, making them less resistant to elemental damage and giving elemental damage a chance burn, freeze, or shock.

Skill Functions and Interactions

Chance to Freeze/Ignite/Shock: This curse is one of several causes of Freeze/Ignite/Shock effects without a critical strike. Because the amount of cold/fire/lightning damage dealt to initiate the effect plays a large role in the duration or damage of these effects, non-critical versions of these ailments are often less severe than those automatically caused by critical strikes.

Negative Resistances: This curse can cause resistance values to dip into the negative, if the base values are low enough. This will have the affect of increasing the damage above values listed on the character screen. For example, a monster that had 0% fire resistance and then was inflicted with level 1 elemental resistance will take 30% more (multiplicative) fire damage than the spell or attack would normally cause.

Gem Leveling

Level	Required Level	Required Intelligence	Mana Cost	Base Duration	Increased Area of Effect	% Of Enemy Lowered Elemental Resist	Additional % Chance to Freeze/Ignite/Shock	Experience to Level
1	19	41	15	9.0 s	-	30%	10%	81,983
2	23	48	17	9.1 s	5%	31%	10%	63,765
3	25	52	18	9.2 s	10%	32%	10%	135,415
4	28	57	19	9.3 s	15%	33%	10%	199,345
5	31	62	21	9.4 s	20%	34%	10%	285,815
6	34	68	22	9.5 s	25%	35%	11%	401,344
7	37	73	24	9.6 s	30%	36%	11%	554,379
8	40	79	25	9.7 s	35%	37%	11%	755,049
9	43	84	27	9.8 s	40%	38%	11%	1,016,533
10
11	49	95	30	10.0 s	50%	40%	12%	1,138,877
12	51	98	30	10.1 s	55%	41%	12%	1,368,233
13	53	102	31	10.2 s	60%	42%	12%	1,368,233
14	54	104	32	10.3 s	65%	43%	12%	3,351,223
15	55	106	32	10.4 s	70%	44%	12%	9,922,563
16
17	57	109	33	10.6 s	80%	46%	13%	50,639,372
18
19	59	113	34	10.8 s	90%	48%	13%	146,938,901
20	60	115	35	10.9 s	95%	49%	14%	-

Gem Quality

Each percentage of quality adds -0.35% Elemental Resistance.