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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rystil Arden" data-source="post: 3457918" data-attributes="member: 29014">That's what I figured--a guy can hope though, right? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Yeah, no worries if you won't agree to that, but you can see why it seems a bit one-sided of you to have me do the math and then refuse to check it and demand proof, right?  If you don't trust the numbers, you probably won't trust my proof much either--the best way to do it is to do the numbers yourself.  I'll even help out with the hardest part: since Empower and Maximise don't stack, the weirdest bit of math is calculating the average on a Maximised Empowered Orb (everything else stacks once you have those two, though).  That number is 116.25 (90 for the Maximised, 26.25 for the Empower).  You can easily use that to derive everything else (Twin/Energy Admixture that?  Just double it.  Throw a Quickened version of that?  Sure, just add it again.  Note that the damage on Maximise alone is 90 and Empower alone is 78.75.  You'll need that if you do the one with Easy Metamagic on the Energy Admixture instead of the Quicken, since then the Quickened spell is only Empowered and the non-Quickened is Admixtured and Maximised, thus getting up that 258.75 I mentioned).</blockquote>