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Old 2nd February 2009, 10:55 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Burning, Caustic or Frost Gauntlets?

Clearly they should all have the same wording as lvl 6,6,7 items in the AV
but minor word changes create huge differences -

Fire Gauntlets only effect [fire] attacks.
Caustic Gauntlets effect any ranged attack, but the milestone only kicks in if you are using ranged + [acid]
Frost Gauntlets effect any melee, and the milestone kicks in for all melee attacks. (also has a nice synergy with the 2 cold feats.)

Which write up should be used? Caustic is the worst written, with the milestone actually making the power worse.
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Old 2nd February 2009, 11:04 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Umm...why exactly should they all be identical? They're all different items that work differently.
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Old 4th February 2009, 03:46 AM   #3 (permalink)
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I don't think they're supposed to be the same, but I think the Caustic Gauntlets do have a mistake. Normally they give (among other things) 1 extra acid damage on successful ranged attacks, but if you've reached a milestone they say "2 extra acid damage on successful ranged attacks with the acid keyword".... I don't think that last bit ("with the acid keyword") is supposed to be there, since none of the rest of the power works that way.
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