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I got a question I need an answer to. Elemental Debuffs---> Burn, Frost, Choke, Shock, Drown, Rasp. I got all of them, and know what they do as far as stat decreases. My question is, do they drop elemental resistance. If I cast Burn, does it lower resistance to Fire, Drow to Water, etc.? I had a 74 BLM stumped on this one, so I need a wider range of input. Please help.
Ok lets give you a run down on what these do. Each spell will do DoT (just like Dia or Bio) of a specific element. Along with this each spell will decrease one of the games main stats.
Shock - Thunder DoT, Decreases MND
Rasp - Earth DoT, Decreases DEX
Choke - Wind DoT, Decreases VIT
Frost - Ice DoT, Decreases AGI
Burn - Fire DoT, Decreases INT
Drown - Water DoT, Decreases STR
So basically these are used to help the members of your party with various tasks. If your party is mage heavy toss out Shock to help them land debuffs and Burn to help nukes go unresisted. If your party is melee heavy use Frost to lower the enemies evasion and Choke to lower its defence. If you have a ninja tank you could also use Rasp to lower the enemies accuracy to make it easier on the ninja.
Well anyway you get the point. I hope this helped you out.
EDITED: Switched the words Damage with DoT in order not to confuse people.
Edited, Sun Jan 2 23:17:01 2005 by Kromeknight