Shield Damage

[Arianna]

When a fire spell hits a wooden shield, it sunders the shield. When an electrical spell hits a metal shield, it travels through the shield and hits the player. However, if a weapon has magical elemental damage, does it do the same?

[Jon]

No.

Fire/Ice/Shock on weapons are primarily there to effect certain creatures with elemental weaknesses, make the weapon "magic" or give the weapon a coolness factor.

Weapon damage cannot be metered the same way spell damage or consumable damage can be. Every spell requires a certain amount of mana for a certain amount of effect. Alchemy requires a certain expenditure of resources for a certain amount of effect. An enchanted weapon has the potential to do a limitless amount of damage for a fixed expenditure of resources, and for that reason, it's effect is limited more than others.

Otherwise, we'd have people hitting each other with holy weapons to heal damage, and that's just dumb.