Crack of the Heavens

Crack of the Heavens is effective, but more challenging to mitigate and somewhat less necessary than other sunder charms. Unlike Flickering Flame for

Flame Rift, Bramble for

Rotting Fissure, or

Thawing Potion for

Cold Rupture, there is no simple solution for the penalty

Crack of the Heavens imposes on one of the game's most critical resistances.

The

Conviction aura granted by Infinity is capable of "breaking" the Lightning Immunity of most enemy types (and fails to break the immunities of a number of Fire- or Cold-Immune enemy types). The -X% Enemy Lightning Resistance found on items such as

Crescent Moon,

Griffon's Eye,

Thunderstroke, or the aforementioned Infinity works equally well regardless of whether a target's Lightning Immunity was sundered by

Crack of the Heavens or broken by

Conviction. Thus, in such contexts, the difference between using a

Crack of the Heavens or not is a modest increase in damage output at the cost of a significant penalty to durability.