Absorb Magic and Meteor

Ezareth

Absorb Magic (Defensive Posture morph): Significantly increased the maximum amount of damage prevented from this ability.

Anyone able to test this out on Meteor? I know Defensive Posture Reflects Meteor but never understood why Absorb Magic couldn't absorb it.

EnOeZ

Would like to know the new tooltip plz
Someone from the pts ?

ThatNeonZebraAgain

I'll try and figure it out. All I know is Absorb Magic is amazing at shutting down Sorc Crystal Frags

Dracane

I think, all Ultimate abilities should be superior to any minor ability in the game.
Just like Dragon Jump, you cannot block the knockdown. Which is cool in my opinion.

Any Ultimate in the game should work the same way. Meteor, Atronach and all the other ultimates should not be blockable and not be able to be absorbed or reflected. Only my opinion, but they are so expensive, they should have a special feeling to them and should be worth having the title 'Ultimate' Meteor used to be pretty popular when update 1.6 was on pts. It was strong, somewhat new and it always hit.

But now people got used to this long conjuration time and just block right before it comes down and that's how you waste 200 Ultimate for nothing I rarely see this Ultimate nowadays. Maybe in the arsenal of some trash folks who think they can surprise me with it out of stealth. Well it's still very popular in big pvp, but that's mainly due to Shooting Stars effect I suppose.

Maulkin

Dracane wrote: »

I think, all Ultimate abilities should be superior to any minor ability in the game.
Just like Dragon Jump, you cannot block the knockdown. Which is cool in my opinion.

You can block the knockdown, just not reactively. If you are perma-blocking it doesn't knock you down. If you are hoping to react to a Leap, you'll never make it.

Somehow the code decides if you get'll get knocked down or not based on whether you were holding block the moment the DK pressed the ult button.

It's kinda like Dawnbreaker in that sense

Dracane

mike.gaziotisb16_ESO wrote: »

Dracane wrote: »

I think, all Ultimate abilities should be superior to any minor ability in the game.
Just like Dragon Jump, you cannot block the knockdown. Which is cool in my opinion.

You can block the knockdown, just not reactively. If you are perma-blocking it doesn't knock you down. If you are hoping to react to a Leap, you'll never make it.

Somehow the code decides if you get'll get knocked down or not based on whether you were holding block the moment the DK pressed the ult button.

It's kinda like Dawnbreaker in that sense

Thanks for confirming this. And I thought I was crazy or so.
It knocks me down most of the time, but not always. I think you're right with that.
Let's hope it's a bug, that it sometimes doesn't knock you down through blocks. But considering it's the only ultimate that does this (Meteor seems to do it either sometimes).... the knockdown might be a bug.

Akavir_Sentinel

The combination of Nikulas Heavy Armor + scales + absorb magic is hilarious. I don't care what projectile you send my way, that [snip] is getting blocked, absorbed, or reflected. Even if I'm completely out of resources I still have a 25% chance to reflect it.

Ezareth

Dracane wrote: »

I think, all Ultimate abilities should be superior to any minor ability in the game.
Just like Dragon Jump, you cannot block the knockdown. Which is cool in my opinion.

Any Ultimate in the game should work the same way. Meteor, Atronach and all the other ultimates should not be blockable and not be able to be absorbed or reflected. Only my opinion, but they are so expensive, they should have a special feeling to them and should be worth having the title 'Ultimate' Meteor used to be pretty popular when update 1.6 was on pts. It was strong, somewhat new and it always hit.

But now people got used to this long conjuration time and just block right before it comes down and that's how you waste 200 Ultimate for nothing I rarely see this Ultimate nowadays. Maybe in the arsenal of some trash folks who think they can surprise me with it out of stealth. Well it's still very popular in big pvp, but that's mainly due to Shooting Stars effect I suppose.

Meteor is and always has been a garbage ultimate. It only kills newbs and creates lag in zergs.
I take a little over 1000 damage from it when I block it on PTS because it's a projectile and with a S&B and Absorb magic slotted projectiles only do 29% of the after resistances damage.

Absorb magic however has nothing in the tooltips about a maximium damage theshold and it should absorb any magic projectile not just weak ones. If a DK can reflect a meteor and if defensive posture can reflect it, then absorb magic should absorb it simple as that.

Ezareth

Dracane wrote: »

mike.gaziotisb16_ESO wrote: »

Dracane wrote: »

I think, all Ultimate abilities should be superior to any minor ability in the game.
Just like Dragon Jump, you cannot block the knockdown. Which is cool in my opinion.

You can block the knockdown, just not reactively. If you are perma-blocking it doesn't knock you down. If you are hoping to react to a Leap, you'll never make it.

Somehow the code decides if you get'll get knocked down or not based on whether you were holding block the moment the DK pressed the ult button.

It's kinda like Dawnbreaker in that sense

Thanks for confirming this. And I thought I was crazy or so.
It knocks me down most of the time, but not always. I think you're right with that.
Let's hope it's a bug, that it sometimes doesn't knock you down through blocks. But considering it's the only ultimate that does this (Meteor seems to do it either sometimes).... the knockdown might be a bug.

I block Meteor reactively all the time. The only time I ever get knocked down is if I try to get fancy and try to get a dodge roll in before it hits.

Thalmor-Nordmaster

Akavir what are you going to do when Nikulas wants his armor back?

Dracane

Ezareth wrote: »

Dracane wrote: »

I think, all Ultimate abilities should be superior to any minor ability in the game.
Just like Dragon Jump, you cannot block the knockdown. Which is cool in my opinion.

Any Ultimate in the game should work the same way. Meteor, Atronach and all the other ultimates should not be blockable and not be able to be absorbed or reflected. Only my opinion, but they are so expensive, they should have a special feeling to them and should be worth having the title 'Ultimate' Meteor used to be pretty popular when update 1.6 was on pts. It was strong, somewhat new and it always hit.

But now people got used to this long conjuration time and just block right before it comes down and that's how you waste 200 Ultimate for nothing I rarely see this Ultimate nowadays. Maybe in the arsenal of some trash folks who think they can surprise me with it out of stealth. Well it's still very popular in big pvp, but that's mainly due to Shooting Stars effect I suppose.

Meteor is and always has been a garbage ultimate. It only kills newbs and creates lag in zergs.
I take a little over 1000 damage from it when I block it on PTS because it's a projectile and with a S&B and Absorb magic slotted projectiles only do 29% of the after resistances damage.

Absorb magic however has nothing in the tooltips about a maximium damage theshold and it should absorb any magic projectile not just weak ones. If a DK can reflect a meteor and if defensive posture can reflect it, then absorb magic should absorb it simple as that.

You basically agreed with what I said. Meteor used to be good, only because it was kinda new and nobody really used it before 1.6 was available. People didn't expect Meteor.
But it has always been a laughable Ultimate for pvp, only fools get hit by it. This loud crumbling and the big blue circle can't be missed.

Thalmor-Nordmaster

it's sparkly!! I use SS sometimes like at keep doors on top a zerg ball or if they are not paying attention.


P.S Edited to add Did I mention it's Sparkly !! but 200 ulti

tinythinker

ThatNeonZebraAgain wrote: »

I'll try and figure it out. All I know is Absorb Magic is amazing at shutting down Sorc Crystal Frags

Also for magicka DKs whose only move is spamming lava whip. Actually had one run away once after I took no damage from 10 straight whips.

Ezareth

tinythinker wrote: »

ThatNeonZebraAgain wrote: »

I'll try and figure it out. All I know is Absorb Magic is amazing at shutting down Sorc Crystal Frags

Also for magicka DKs whose only move is spamming lava whip. Actually had one run away once after I took no damage from 10 straight whips.

Don't forget Crushing Shock + Power Overload + Magicka Nightblade. I'm pretty certain it absorbs concealed weapon as well. It's basically at worst a 1/1 against any magicka ability out there except you get healed.