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<blockquote data-quote="Hypersmurf" data-source="post: 876212" data-attributes="member: 1656">I'm going to try one more analogy to explain my position.Picture Protection from Elements as a Countermissile Battery, with a magazine of (say) 60 Countermissiles.Resist Elements is a Battery with a magazine of 12 Countermissiles, that restock at the start of each round.Any given point of fire damage is an incoming Missile.And the PfE Battery and the RE Battery don't know about each other.The evil sorcerer throws three 5-point Fire Orbs - which show up on scanners as three clusters of five incoming Missiles.First cluster - PfE and RE each launch 5 Countermissiles.Second cluster - PfE and RE each launch 5 Countermissiles.Third cluster - RE launches its last 2 Countermissiles, and PfE fires off 5.PfE has 45 Countermissiles left in its magazine; RE restocks at the start of the next round.After a few rounds of combat, PfE is down to 5 Countermissiles.The sorcerer launches another barrage.PfE and RE both launch five Countermissiles at the first Orb - PfE expires.RE takes out the second Orb.But for the third Orb, with five incoming Missiles, RE has only 2 Countermissiles left.&nbsp; Three get through - the caster takes 3 points of Fire damage.That's how I view overlapping.Now Endure Elements, on the other hand, does know about Resist Elements - because the spell descriptions say so - but not PfE.&nbsp; So as long as Resist Elements is running, the gunners in the Endure Elements Battery can drink coffee and hang around on Yellow Alert.-Hyp.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hypersmurf, post: 876212, member: 1656"] I'm going to try one more analogy to explain my position. Picture Protection from Elements as a Countermissile Battery, with a magazine of (say) 60 Countermissiles. Resist Elements is a Battery with a magazine of 12 Countermissiles, that restock at the start of each round. Any given point of fire damage is an incoming Missile. And the PfE Battery and the RE Battery [i]don't know about each other[/i]. The evil sorcerer throws three 5-point Fire Orbs - which show up on scanners as three clusters of five incoming Missiles. First cluster - PfE and RE each launch 5 Countermissiles. Second cluster - PfE and RE each launch 5 Countermissiles. Third cluster - RE launches its last 2 Countermissiles, and PfE fires off 5. PfE has 45 Countermissiles left in its magazine; RE restocks at the start of the next round. After a few rounds of combat, PfE is down to 5 Countermissiles. The sorcerer launches another barrage. PfE and RE both launch five Countermissiles at the first Orb - PfE expires. RE takes out the second Orb. But for the third Orb, with five incoming Missiles, RE has only 2 Countermissiles left. Three get through - the caster takes 3 points of Fire damage. [i]That's[/i] how I view overlapping. Now Endure Elements, on the other hand, [i]does[/i] know about Resist Elements - because the spell descriptions say so - but not PfE. So as long as Resist Elements is running, the gunners in the Endure Elements Battery can drink coffee and hang around on Yellow Alert. -Hyp. [/QUOTE]

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