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2008-04-19, 02:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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What is the best energy immunity?
Out of curiosity, what's the best energy immunity one can have?
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2008-04-19, 02:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What is the best energy immunity?
I'd go for Negative Energy Immunity, since I think that covers Energy Drain, Negative Levels, ability drain, ect. If I can't have that, I'd go for Fire, since that's common, or Cold if I knew I was going up against Cold things or in a cold area.
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2008-04-19, 02:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What is the best energy immunity?
Depends on your level of meta-thinking. Fire effects are the most common, so based on that, fire immunity is best. However, since fire resistance is also the most common, any clever caster-type character is not going to use fire spells.
Oh and yeah, immunity to negative energy is good, since negative is nasty.Guide to the Magus, the Pathfinder Gish class.
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2008-04-19, 02:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What is the best energy immunity?
I don't think that there is negative energy immunity. Energy immunities are usually only possible with spells that have an energy descriptor, thus the only recognized forms would be fire, acid, cold, electricity, sonic, and force.
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2008-04-19, 02:37 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What is the best energy immunity?
I dunno about Force.
I mean, if you were immune to Force... would you just walk through Walls of Force?
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2008-04-19, 02:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What is the best energy immunity?
I mostly had in mind the common ones, fire, acid, cold, electricity and sonic, since I didn't know you could actually get immunity for force or negative energy. Is it so, or can you get negative energy immunity from, say, that shifter prestige class from Races of Eberron (I think)?
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2008-04-19, 02:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What is the best energy immunity?
Force doesn't count as an energy type, it's just those five, fire, cold, sonic, acid, and electricity. At least, that's what's listed in the resist energy spell. basically, if a dragon can use it as a breath attack, there's an immunity. (though I can't think of a dragon that uses sonic damage for the breath weapon.) I don't think there's really a best, since fire, cold, and electric are more common, the could be counter-acted with a spell caster that took uncommon spells
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2008-04-19, 02:57 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What is the best energy immunity?
id go with fire or acid. Since most adventures go for the red or black dragons
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2008-04-19, 02:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What is the best energy immunity?
I guess technically a lvl 10 Force Dragon Disciple would get Force Immunity if it existed.
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2008-04-19, 03:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What is the best energy immunity?
Negative energy (if you can) - that stuff is just a pain and reduces your effectiveness not just your hp.
Otherwise fire - yes I know smart opponents are going to work round this, but it is still the most common type of damage. Also suddenly volcanoes, burning buildings and forest fires look a lot less scary and every adventurer wants to hunt down a red dragon at some point don't they?Spoiler
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2008-04-19, 03:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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2008-04-19, 03:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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2008-04-19, 03:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What is the best energy immunity?
Fire is the most common mundane threat, thus a great immunity to get.
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2008-04-19, 03:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What is the best energy immunity?
Force immunity lets you walk through walls of force and Forcecage by extension. It also ignores the Bigby line of spells, but those don't come up often.
A prismatic dragon's light immunity would be pretty useful if you're undead, since a bunch of light spells are designed to hurt undead.
The ring of energy immunity (240,000 gp, epic) gives you immunity to one of the basic five (fire, cold, lightning, acid, sonic), so at really high levels immunity to one of the basic five is less valuable.Avatar by Serpentine
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2008-04-19, 04:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What is the best energy immunity?
Force immunity? I wasn't aware such a thing existed. One of the reasons Magic Missile continues to be useful at high levels is that it's a small amount of damage that's almost guaranteed to actually work.
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2008-04-19, 04:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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2008-04-19, 04:18 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What is the best energy immunity?
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2008-04-19, 04:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What is the best energy immunity?
Sonic:
You almost never encounter sonic based monsters and/or spells, so you almost never get hit with those spells, so nobody is immune, so a clever dm will throw those at you, so knowing that your dm is clever, you pick Sonic to mess with them.
Or go with fire because there are a lot of fire based creatures out there.
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2008-04-19, 04:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What is the best energy immunity?
Force dragons and Prismatic Dragons have force and light immunity, respectively. They're epic level monsters, so they don't really come of the top of one's head.
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2008-04-19, 04:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What is the best energy immunity?
I'd say fire immunity, simply because that would allow you to fight while naked and on fire.
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2008-04-19, 04:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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2008-04-19, 04:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What is the best energy immunity?
When fighting Ninjas, fire immunity is a must. Because, Ninjas can't catch you when youre on fire!
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2008-04-19, 05:09 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What is the best energy immunity?
Hmmm... I'm reading through these posts, and its starting to wander off the point a little
That said, I'm currently playing a Half-Dragon (Gold) and that fire immunity has been a bit of a godsend at points.
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2008-04-19, 05:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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2008-04-19, 05:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What is the best energy immunity?
Well, that would make things different... You could just sit around after being Swallowed Whole...
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2008-04-19, 05:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What is the best energy immunity?
Cost wise, Immunity to Acid is the worst immunity to get if you are getting it from anything besides items.
The only way to get immunity to other elements is the Epic ring. On the other hand, Immunity to acid can be obtained with an Armor enhancement that also damages those that grapple you and makes all your items immune too.