When you take elemental strike, does it impart all the effects of the element, or just the secondary?

Specifically, if the element (say cold) would normally be resisted by half impact, if you have elemental strike charged, does your melee attack go against half impact?

I run it as having all the effects listed, as any weapon doing that type of damage does. man I love Sonic fists.

It is intended to use all the effects listed.

Woo woo!

I too am loving my sonic fists.

And Blast fists are a poor man's Destructive Strike (Maybe a different name - the knock down walls power).

Excellent.

That'd be spiffy, but I don't think the cold damage is that exact. Although I suppose you can make a small, fist sized patch at the top of the stairs and see if someone slips.

Wax on...*moves palm in counter-clockwise motion*

Well if you're gonna go that far as to use a hand motion to turn a DV into a cold floor tile, then you could also wax on some guys neck or chest or leg and give them a freezer burn that drives them nuts?

Of course, if you aim for said nuts, you might get a very comic relief in the middle of a run watching the security guard swearing and ripping his pants off trying to check that he still has jewels. Though I'm not sure anyone wants to be alias'd "Blue Balls".

C'mon, everyone's going to go with Metal to show up razor punks.

"You call that a knife that pops out of your hand? This is a knife that pops out of your hand."

Don't really understand some variants of the power. Say Sonic Strike - WHY exactly is your STR going to determine a damage that is NOT resisted by armor at all and thus obviously does NOT hit the target physically?

Because you as an adept are the source of your powers, and thus even though the attack doesn't make any contact, it's power is based off your own. It's how magic works.

Actually I say you do hit the target and then the sonic boom your fists create on impact reverbs through the armour nullifying it's effects. You chuckle as enemies have their eardrums burst

Sonic damage.

Is there anything it *can't* do?

What's the Force of a Blast attack?

Magic rating, maybe?

Inertia is half strength. So depending, it can be more or less.

However, Inertia strike is a free action to activate, whereas Elemental strike takes a simple action.

So you can't use Elemental strike first IP.

I have to agree that + strength is a bit over the top.

However, here are a couple reasons:

1. You can't combine Distance Strike and Elemental Strike. I see nothing to indicate you can't combine Distance Strike and Inertial Strike.

2. I asume you can't have multiple Elemental Strikes active at once. So if you want, say, Cold damage, you can't have Blast. But you can have a Cold Inertial strike.

If you're only getting one of the powers, Elemental: Blast is better. If you want to combine with other stuff, Inertial Strike is sometimes better.

However, I'd argue that Blast force should equal half strength. Otherwise it's huge.

Now here's a question: Do you neccessarily have to cause damage to create th elemental effects?

I'm not neccessarily talking about touch attacks (though it's certainly one thought) but I am considering nerve strike. So long as you do a point of ability damage, wouldn't that cound? Be an interesting mix with an electrical elemental attack - reduced ability and chance of an outright stun.