Game Design Fix Earth Weaknesses In Ice Barrows

A few mobs in the Ice Barrows dungeon - specifically, the Freezing Guards and the Shade of Theorick (or whatever the third miniboss is) - have earth weaknesses. REALLY BIG earth weaknesses. I'm fine with weaknesses and all, but I'm an around level 50 archer and the damage of my Bomb spell (the only thing I have with earth damage) is in the 10,000s.

This is misleading, and given that the Shade of Theorick has 80,000 health, any non-earth user will very likely fail to kill it. I suggest that the earth-weak mobs in the Ice Barrows dungeon have their health lowered by a lot and their earth weaknesses toned down massively.

(Why are they weak to earth, anyways? If anything, they should have a fire weakness.)

 

All classes have an earth damage spell, and at the level requirement you will have unlocked all of your spells. This means that you can use Meteor/Bash or Uppercut/ Arrow Bomb/Smoke bomb to do it. This means that basically any weapon can easily exploit a weakness this big. The earth weakness makes sense with ice as well, when you consider how brittle it is, making it vulnerable to brute force attacks. Perhaps it's a type of ice that doesn't melt easily.

 

All classes have an earth spell

 

Maybe if someone was using a weap without neutral damage

Which I don't think exists at that level but

 

It does. I didn't actually think about that, but it didn't take me long to find quite a lot of no-neutral, no-earth weapons at the level.
That's just a few, there are more.

 

Oh.