Implosion
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| School: | earth magic | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Level: | 5th | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cost: | 30 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Duration: | instant | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Implosion is a 5th level spell in the School of earth magic. From the direct damage spells with a damage dealing capability of 300 + (power × 75), it is the most destructive spell for a single creature stack. From the spells that can cause collaretal damage, Armageddon is the most destructive.
Implosion also has the highest slope value of 75, which means that for every point power increases Implosion does 75 points more damage. In comparison, Armageddon has 50, Chain Lightning has 40 and Magic Arrow has 10.
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Discussion
Black Dragons save for having Orb of Vulnerability, just like Magic Elementals are totally immune to Implosion as a spell.
So the most damage resistant golem only takes 5% of the damage done.
At Power level 99 and Expert Level Earth Magic (300 bonus damage being 4 times the spell power effective being added as bonus, same multiplicator (75 effective damage each power point), and a mana price reduction of 5 points at expert) the resulting damage would be 7725 damage points the resulting damage would be worth health points equal to a 25 creature stack of Titans with 300 hp each, 5% of which(7725*0,05 =386.25) would be 386.25, a stack of about 6 Diamond Golems in terms of health points.
With an Orb of Silt (+50% earth magic damage) the spell power 99 damage would be half the damage added to a new 100% damage of 11588 damage points, and the 5% effective golem damage would result in 578 damage points, shredding no less than and about 9 Diamond Golems with 60 health points each.
Maybe diamond gathering via golem destruction is a spending a nice time relaxing from getting rid off 46 units of gold dragon creatures, and at the time one has reached 99 spell power points (via buildings like School of Magic (+1 to either Knowledge or Spell Points, once) or Library of Enlightenment (+2 to Attack/Defense/Spellpower/Knowledge each once after having visited the building and having reached Hero level 10 or by using Diplomacy to get in) the wasted mana on the spell may not be a scarce ressource in terms of knowledge points either.
Of course using Summon Earth Elemental (also a 5th level spell) would be a little bit brutish as it would work without having to cirumvent or consider magic resistance and the Orb of Silt would not be usable.
And then there are times when an Orb of Vulnerability becomes rather useful, so one would not have to consider magic resistance at all.
You can reach 1000 damage with implosion relatively easily so it is great when defending against a siege. If the attacking player has mostly walker units, just destroy the catapult and leave the rest of the work to arrow towers.