Surge spells

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

A player casting Air 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.

When wielding a tier 90 weapon, all surge spells will deal the same damage. The only possible benefit to switching to a different element of a surge spell at this level 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.

Spell	Requirement	Runes	Base Damage	Max Damage	Cost
Air Surge	81	5	777	864	145 coins
Water Surge	85	55	816	864	1,390 coins
Earth Surge	90	55	864	864	275 coins
Fire Surge	95	55	864	864	795 coins

Update history

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• patch 31 October 2016 (Update):
  • Surge spells may now do up to level 99 spell damage in Daemonheim, limited by your weapon's level.

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.