Changes: Surge spells

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This article is about the spell type. For the Combat ability, please see Surge

Air Surge — A player casting Wind Surge.

Surge spells are the strongest elemental group of magic combat spells in the standard spellbook. Elemental staves can be used to cut the costs of these spells. These are members only spells.

All surge spells deal the same damage. The only possible benefit to switching to a different element of a surge spell is exploiting an enemy's weakness to a particular element (such as the weakness of TzHaar to water spells). Since player warriors are not weak to specific elements, but rather all magic in general, it may be unwise to use any surge spell other than air surge in PvP due to rune costs.

Although requiring levels ranging from 81 to 95 magic, all 4 spells have an effective level of 90, meaning you need a level 90 weapon to achieve the full damage potential of the spells.

Spell	Requirement	Runes	Base XP	Damage (without bonuses)	Cost
File:Air Surge.png Air Surge	81	⁵	75	768	450 coins
File:Water Surge.png Water Surge	85	⁵⁵	80	768	575 coins
File:Earth Surge.png Earth Surge	90	⁵⁵	85	768	540 coins
File:Fire Surge.png Fire Surge	95	⁵⁵	90	768	1,245 coins

Trivia

These spells were added to the spellbook in the 17 November 2009 update.
On 24 June 2010, all of the elemental spells received a graphical make-over.

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 All surge spells deal the same damage. The only possible benefit to switching to a different element of a surge spell is exploiting an enemy's weakness to a particular element (such as the weakness of TzHaar to water spells). Since player warriors are not weak to specific elements, but rather all magic in general, it may be unwise to use any surge spell other than air surge in PvP due to rune costs.
-Although requiring levels ranging from 81 to 95 magic, all 4 spells have an effective level of 80, meaning you need a level 80 weapon to achieve the full damage potential of the spells.
+Although requiring levels ranging from 81 to 95 magic, all 4 spells have an effective level of 90, meaning you need a level 90 weapon to achieve the full damage potential of the spells.
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