How durable are ao characters in lore?

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the thing is that these water beams are instant, high pressure(look at the damage), magic enhanced.
The Pressure comes from the magic itself.

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You canā€™t prove that thereā€™s pressure in water magic.

You canā€™t just add pressure, you need a lot of water in one space to have water pressure. Youā€™ve gotta have the gravity making the water heavier the deeper down.

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ever been hit by a water balloon that didnā€™t pop?

itā€™s that

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Thatā€™s squishy rubber hitting you, not water.

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The water blasts, beams, etc travel extremely far requiring pressure and force to keep itself together.
If there was no pressure itā€™d just fall apart and fall?

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All magics stay together, you canā€™t have pressure keeping Light in.

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That tracks.

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So by that logic, magic could just squish the water into pressure?
if itā€™s just magic keeping it together then why canā€™t it pressurize?
To make the water stronger anyway with magic reinforcement itā€™d be natural to compress the water for a more damaging attack, it wouldnā€™t make sense to send out just a water balloon splash of water thatā€™d do little damage and be practically useless.

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Sure, it can be pressurized, but not by such a hefty degree.

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Itā€™d make sense in the future for mages to pressurize their attacks for more damage.

Water mages boutta pull a piercing blood

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Have you ever heard of 20% attack size?
Itā€™s literally already a thing, mages DO actually do this for more damage

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so mages do pressurize canonically, in all and all it makes sense no idea what Stocksound means.

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Probably the fact that you can only make your attacks so small, similar how you canā€™t compress objects past a certain point. This is probably why 20% is the smallest you can make attacks

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theoretically if we compress enough with a ton of energy we could create a magical black hole.

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Iā€™d prefer if that was a gravity magic exclusive thing

Especially if you use a magic like water I donā€™t see why they wouldnā€™t tbh

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Level 1 lightning blast: ~20 damage.

Lighting strike: 500 damage.

Math checks out. Only issue is, normal people survive lightning strikes irl.

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AO people survive lightning strikes, you just gotta be in good health.

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You gotta be at level 58 or you have to have armor. Judging by the levels of most castaways, your average person in AO is like level 1-20.

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Well, thatā€™s a bit of a confusion point. You ainā€™t got nobody level 2 sailing in the Nimbus Sea, but castaways can be. I think itā€™s weird how underlevelled they are. the Player is also Level 1 when first waking up too. I think the level is often a stand-in for physical condition, because castaways gonna be feelinā€™ like shit.