I think I found the best second magic to run with Plasma

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TLDR:
Plasma + wood combo is going to become super powerful once second magic comes out, since scorched increases wood damage by 30%. Additionally, wood can proc bleed if it does 33% of a target’s health. This bleed effect can be activated much more easily on a scorched target, due to the aforementioned 30% damage buff bringing you from a 0.95x multiplier to a 1.235x multiplier.

Wood gains another 30% from hitting a bleeding target, which could add up with your Scorched debuff’s 30%, to give wood magic a 60% damage buff and give you a total 1.52x damage multiplier, with 1.14x on contact with the remaining 0.38 being dealt over 5 seconds.

A 1.14x contact damage multiplier is great, especially with the 0.38x bleed multiplier. To put that into perspective, Gold magic has a 1.2x contact damage multiplier, with it getting an extra 0.3x from the bleed effect.

With how easy it is to land placed explosions, this effect could be constantly applied at all times in close range, giving you a massive advantage over other combatants.

  • BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE!
    The buff from scorched also stacks with the buff from burning. This gives you a 60% damage multiplier onto wood, without even accounting for the extra 30% from bleed.
  • With this amount of damage, you will almost certainly proc bleed on every attack using wood magic, and add up to a whopping 90% damage bonus. This gives you a total of 1.801x total multiplier, with 1.35 contact multplier and 0.451x bleed multiplier.

While Burning and Scorched were the most notable debuffs that improve the damage of Wood, here are the rest:

Wood
Crystal
Paper
Glass
Earth
All weapons
Ash
Sand
Acid
Magma
Explosion

Here’s a chart made by Metapoly showcasing all of the magic stats and synergies, and also how I got the information needed for this post.

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lightning and water go: seizure

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your pathetic 25% damage multiplier is no match for a whopping 60%

I feel like it’s going to be like Vesteria again where one combination gets absurd dps and invalidates pve content for anything but that build and kills what was left of pvp

NOOOOOO!!! YOU CANT JUST PERFECT BLOCK MY PLASMA & WOOD COMBO THE FORUMS SAYS ITS THE BEST COMBO WITH AN S TIER MAGIC!!!

haha shield go kling

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I was planning to go Plasma | Fire | Wood but now that i think about it i might just switch over Wood to Fire and replace fire with something else

I miscalculated some stuff on the post, might want to re-read it. Plasma + Fire + wood is one of the deadliest combos in the game.

funny thing is you’re still going to eat scorched even if you pb

but i raise you a counter argument;

kling

A level 60 hard shield only has 80% damage reduction, you’ll still be taking decently high damage from a 90% damage buffed wood magic

yes but i see a big flaw with this combo as it would require me to use wood magic though :frowning:

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He’s referring to perfect blocks, I believe.
However, let’s say that wood deals 150 damage per blast thanks to a power setup or something similar. (Values are equal to what we have now for the sake of comparison). If you multiply this by 1.9, you get 285. take 80% of that away, and you get 57 damage. I’m no expert, but I’m relatively sure 57 damage will fail to cause bleed and can be regenerated back within 7-10 seconds by most if not all lv60 players. Blocking is still very effective here, as far as I can see. Maybe less effective than against other potential combos, but still effective.

Ok, but have you heard of Lightning + Sand?

The sand lightning/water lightning combination actually just brings you up to 1.0625x multiplier.

I think a bleed magic would work better than water, probably glass, iron, or wood. Sand removes soaked and does less, and while water doesn’t remove sandy, it still does less.

Armchair analyst here, you can forget the bleed, even with 60% bonus dmg, you most likely won’t cause it. maybe if both of you are glass cannons, but if someone wears a bit of armor it won’t happen. And unfortunately fire and plasma don’t interact with eachother, so the combo is too one-dimensional to really be that good. you need to analyze all possible combinations, if you find just one then that’s no good, considering it’d take time to set it up as well.

I thought fire did more to scorched?

Yeah i think you’re right. Meta made a mistake in his guide which misled me. Gonna have to point it out to him

It says in the trello. The trello is mostly more accurate than the guide for interactions.

yes but metas guide has more statistics. and all the misinformation will be fixed by time anyway. I’ll point it out to him