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    Player Alhanelem's Avatar
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    Meteor
    Meteor is not, to my knowledge, only Comet.

    The original and prime user of Meteor, KB, is light based and highly vulnerable to dark attacks and effects. I suppose that doesn't automatically make Meteor Light, but with the exception of bombs most monsters aren't weak to the element they are associated with.

    Unless the player version has been seen in the dat files with the name meteor and being dark based, in which case forget all that.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Alhanelem View Post
    Meteor is not, to my knowledge, only Comet.

    The original and prime user of Meteor, KB, is light based and highly vulnerable to dark attacks and effects. I suppose that doesn't automatically make Meteor Light, but with the exception of bombs most monsters aren't weak to the element they are associated with.

    Unless the player version has been seen in the dat files with the name meteor and being dark based, in which case forget all that.
    Its light or Dark - Honestly, I know there were tests done on AV a long while back where i think Dark resist builds showed eons more resists.

    Honestly its been so long I'd have to look it up. But im 99% positive, Its Darkness as well. It could use some retesting i suppose..
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    Last edited by Karbuncle; 01-23-2012 at 12:11 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Karbuncle View Post
    Its light or Dark - Honestly, I know there were tests done on AV a long while back where i think Dark resist builds showed eons more resists.

    Honestly its been so long I'd have to look it up. But im 99% positive, Its Darkness as well. It could use some retesting i suppose..
    String Table Entry|218|Meteor|Magic Help Message.|BlackMagic|Special|Enemy|ElementalMagic||1|8s|10s|15|00 (0)
    String Table Entry|219|Comet|Deals dark damage to an enemy. Successive use enhances spell potency.|BlackMagic|Dark|Enemy|ElementalMagic|94BLM|367|11s|1m|15|00 (0)
    String Table Entry|244|Meteor II|Magic Help Message.|BlackMagic|Light|Enemy|ElementalMagic|75WHM/75BLM/75RDM|150|18s|52s|14|00 (0)

    Directly from the spell data files.

    I checked my earliest archive of spell data (March 2008), Meteor is unchanged. I think that meteor is the same type of damage as Chi Blast or Spirits Within.

    And Meteor II is a new spell. No idea why the jobs on it are on it, it may be a placeholder for the player-castable version.
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    Player Alhanelem's Avatar
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    Quote Originally Posted by Septimus View Post
    String Table Entry|218|Meteor|Magic Help Message.|BlackMagic|Special|Enemy|ElementalMagic||1|8s|10s|15|00 (0)
    String Table Entry|219|Comet|Deals dark damage to an enemy. Successive use enhances spell potency.|BlackMagic|Dark|Enemy|ElementalMagic|94BLM|367|11s|1m|15|00 (0)
    String Table Entry|244|Meteor II|Magic Help Message.|BlackMagic|Light|Enemy|ElementalMagic|75WHM/75BLM/75RDM|150|18s|52s|14|00 (0)

    Directly from the spell data files.

    I checked my earliest archive of spell data (March 2008), Meteor is unchanged. I think that meteor is the same type of damage as Chi Blast or Spirits Within.

    And Meteor II is a new spell. No idea why the jobs on it are on it, it may be a placeholder for the player-castable version.
    Are you sure you're looking in the right place? There are several old string tables in the data files that are unused leftovers from content that was cut from the game. After all, why would Meteor II, were it to be coming, be level 75 when Meteor is to be level 99?
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