Hey, everyone!
Believe it or not, a long time ago I was PVPing with a hunter near a pond south of the Stormwind City, and when I jumped into the water while the flame trap was burning on me, it didn’t do periodic fire damage underwater.
Okay grandma, lets go in for a nap.
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Fire elementals were also immune to fire damage. Molten core was an interesting era.
The game in general tried to honor some of the “realistic limitations” of a fantasy world that are often present in TTRPGs.
But such nuances are impossible to balance over time.
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I remember being so mad as a rogue leveling in Searing Gorge that the golems were immune to poison.
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This is why we add pure alkali metal shrapnel to our flame traps now.
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And yet I’d put cooking fires on the Thunder Bluff pond all the time. Coding specific abilities to function differently leaves all kinds of gaps like that.
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I was doing no damage in classic on a mob as a mage. This mob have fire resistance for some reason but wasn’t really a mob that screamed fire elemental to me so I couldn’t figure out what why I couldn’t damage it.
Just sits there underwater with two burning skeletal hounds
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Fun fact: Fire does burn underwater IRL.
It’s the lack of available oxygen, not the water itself, that extinguishes the fire.
But if you provide the oxygen or if you burn a substance that liberates oxygen as it burns, you can have fire underwater no problem 
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time to test that theory…fel fire go!
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Sodium shrapnel traps.
There was a time you could go from Auberdine to Teldrassil by walking on fires made by cooking.
Potassium in water…
Just chalk it up to magic. It’s how a Fire Mage can kill a Fire Elemental with fire!
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Honestly, I never liked the idea of Elementals being immune to their elements.
Like, I’m made of flesh and bone. That doesn’t make me immune to punches.
Likewise, just because a Fire Elemental is made of fire doesn’t mean it should be immune to fire. Resistant? Maybe.
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Maybe they just dissipate the fire? That’s like being a corpumancer and facing a person made of flesh.