QUOTE (D2F @ May 2 2010, 05:00 PM)

Just to avoid confusion here:
Step 4 is the spellcasting test
Step 5 is the resistance test.
Step 5 does not suffer wound modifiers. Step 4 does.
Which restates my point. Step 5, when it does call for resistance, has all kinds of verbage about resistance but then Direct Combat Spells say to treat it as an Opposed test. Thus the door is opened for:
Is Counterspelling affected by Wound modifiers? Whose Wound modifiers...the Counterspelling mage's and the target of Direct Combat spell? Is the target's Willpower or Body affected by Wound mods or sustaining mods? Drain Resistance, Damage resistance, Toxin Resistance...all no. Spell resistance?