#561 Monk techniques and vampire lords

[Dr Eva Myers]

When my Monk used her elemental fist technique on a
vampire lord, she repeatedly got messages like:

The vampire lord is burned by the acid! Your attack
doesn't seem to harm the vampire lord.

This seems a bit inconsistent. (FWIW, I think I wasn't
actually harming it, but I had no stethoscope so I
can't be sure.)

Also, this may be intentional, but while I didn't seem
able to harm it with pummel or chi strike, one ground
slam killed it nicely.

(I tried to test this in wizard mode but couldn't
easily reproduce being unable to harm it, maybe because
my strength was higher in the test than in the real game.)

[J. Ali Harlow]

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I've entered the problems with ground slam as a seperate bug
report (941453).

I've reorganised the algorithm to deal with monsters needing
+n weapons quite a bit in an attempt to improve this. Using
elemental fist against such monsters will now have an effect
similar to that when the monster is resistant to the element
in question. There are slight differences in that the shield
effect is not given and the monster will still take damage
from all destroyed items (resistance limits this somewhat).