ball of lightning

Noctus

i rly thought theres gonna be change in that skill but that *** still absorbs force pulse, haunting curse, entropy, fury none of which are actual projectiles like chrystal shard or lightattacks etc.

who in their right mind thought this is a good idea ?

devs rly forcing people to play stamina. everything in this game is designed to go for stamina in pvp it seems.

Waffennacht

Kinda thought it was suppose to absorb pulse

Jameson18

You can see all of those things in motion when casted at the target. I would assume that indicates that the ball will absorb them.

Spurius_Lucilius

It is annoying. Force Pulse is a beam, not a projectile. Similar skill can’t absorb it, but ball of lightning can magically eat away those non-projectile range attacks!

katorga

Waffennacht wrote: »

Kinda thought it was suppose to absorb pulse

I thought pulse was explicity NOT considered a projectile. Back in the DK wings days, it was not impacted by their reflect and not considered a projectile.

Either way, ZOS said they were making an undefined change to BoL to make it act like 1HS absorb. Does that skill absorb Force Pulse?

I cannot see any difference, and maybe it is even more effective.

Waffennacht

I remember they saying pulse was a beam and could not be reflected.

They did not say beams couldn't be absorbed explicitly afaik

katorga

During PTS they said

"This ability’s projectile absorption now operates more closely to Spell Wall or other abilities that deal with absorbing/deflecting ranged attacks."

Spell wall - aimed at projectiles, pulse is not a projectile.
absorbing skills generally absorb a set amount of damage, with no reference to damage type
Deflecting skills generally act on projectiles

Nothing in 7.06 patch notes, so maybe they did nothing at all to the skill.

SHOW

I watched it absorb a meteor last patch LOL

so broken...

I've even gap closed past the ball, so that the ball was behind me, and all my shots boomerang backwards instead of hitting the guy I'm touching...

this skill might need a slight adjustment LOL

Waffennacht

katorga wrote: »

During PTS they said

"This ability’s projectile absorption now operates more closely to Spell Wall or other abilities that deal with absorbing/deflecting ranged attacks."

Spell wall - aimed at projectiles, pulse is not a projectile.
absorbing skills generally absorb a set amount of damage, with no reference to damage type
Deflecting skills generally act on projectiles

Nothing in 7.06 patch notes, so maybe they did nothing at all to the skill.

Absorb spell has a reference with the word "casted spell projectiles" iirc

katorga

Waffennacht wrote: »

katorga wrote: »

During PTS they said

"This ability’s projectile absorption now operates more closely to Spell Wall or other abilities that deal with absorbing/deflecting ranged attacks."

Spell wall - aimed at projectiles, pulse is not a projectile.
absorbing skills generally absorb a set amount of damage, with no reference to damage type
Deflecting skills generally act on projectiles

Nothing in 7.06 patch notes, so maybe they did nothing at all to the skill.

Absorb spell has a reference with the word "casted spell projectiles" iirc

LOL, which means it does nothing the way the other existing things do it, and who knows what it possibly does. We all know the definitions in this game are fluid....is it a projectile, a beam or some hybrid of the above. How many years were players trying to figure out what rapid strikes was? Judging by what sets it proc'd it could have been both, either or neither.

Sanguinor2

katorga wrote: »

LOL, which means it does nothing the way the other existing things do it, and who knows what it possibly does. We all know the definitions in this game are fluid....is it a projectile, a beam or some hybrid of the above. How many years were players trying to figure out what rapid strikes was? Judging by what sets it proc'd it could have been both, either or neither.

Did you know that bol absorbs the dk gap closer? Because it does.

gariondavey

I threw up once and bol absorbed it

Sedare38

Noctus wrote: »

i rly thought theres gonna be change in that skill but that *** still absorbs force pulse, haunting curse, entropy, fury none of which are actual projectiles like chrystal shard or lightattacks etc.

who in their right mind thought this is a good idea ?

devs rly forcing people to play stamina. everything in this game is designed to go for stamina in pvp it seems.

I like that it can absorb ultimates like Meteor. /sarcasm

Noctus

Sedare38 wrote: »

Noctus wrote: »

i rly thought theres gonna be change in that skill but that *** still absorbs force pulse, haunting curse, entropy, fury none of which are actual projectiles like chrystal shard or lightattacks etc.

who in their right mind thought this is a good idea ?

devs rly forcing people to play stamina. everything in this game is designed to go for stamina in pvp it seems.

I like that it can absorb ultimates like Meteor. /sarcasm

its a magicka skill and i tell u as a magsorc player myself its the skill i hate the most in pvp its worse than that chrystalize *** that wardens have.
id be fine with it just absorbing light attacks or smthing and giving a defensive buff like major mending but the skill as it is shoots our own leg.