Spells: Wizard Wards

[Haish]

Bump.. not a huge priorit, but something that would be a great fix for us casters!

[Acillatem]

Hey it's Saturday!

[Bossco]

Rune also does not currently absorb damage from lava (spell damage, I guess?). I'm nearly positive that it did absorb lava damage on live.

[Rhalous]

This mechanic is one of the reasons the wizard epic is so hot. A near 800 point rune that absorbs manastone damage.

I don't know if Alla comments are good enough, but if there are, then go here and find "manastone" on the page.

http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=3719

[Omnimorph]

True this. ^^

One of the bard songs does currently absorb a portion of spell damage I noticed when using a modrod.

[deramius]

Bump

[Acillatem]

Buummp......also - something I noticed yesterday is that if a mob attacks you and you have a damage shield on AND Rune up - the mob does not hit by the damage shield. This is not how it should work - if I mob hits you (regardless of whether or not it casues physical damage) it should get hit by the dmg shield.

[Acillatem]

10 months later....bump.

Some kind of response would be nice - especially seeing how Venril Sathir's primary kill tactic involves this very problem and Kunark is inc shortly. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Malakriss]

I can't recall if it absorbed spell damage in classic, but it definitely absorbed in kunark for VS. In fact it completely negated a mob's ability to proc (i.e. VS lifetap) as long as the rune was up. That mechanic wasn't "fixed" (changed) until much, much later when they finally made procs happen despite the melee hits being absorbed.

[Acillatem]

It absorbed spells in Classic - I played during classic as a WIZ on Tallon Zek - it was an important buff to have [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]