Annulment.

AllPlayAndNoWork · November 2014

Annulment the light armour active ability... I thought only works on magicka attacks / damage ??

Its just that the morph Dampen Magic also absorbs physical damage as well.

Is this supposed to happen ?

Draxys · November 2014

Pretty sure that it's first and foremost a damage shield- the shield takes 50% less dmg from spells but full damage from physical attacks. That means that it does indeed protect from physical damage until it runs out.

s7732425ub17_ESO · November 2014

If it affects physical damage, it's a bug and should be reported. As of the patch a few weeks ago, it is no longer a generic shield. It should just absorb spell damage.

MADshadowman · November 2014

I can't confirm this. no phisical damage gets absorbed.

RinaldoGandolphi · November 2014

s7732425ub17_ESO wrote: »

If it affects physical damage, it's a bug and should be reported. As of the patch a few weeks ago, it is no longer a generic shield. It should just absorb spell damage.

I can confirm that no stamina based ability is absorbed by Dampen Magicka....any ability that uses magic as its resource is migitated by Harness/Dampen Magic which is how its intended...NB Teleport Strike is an example, its classified as a magic attack and its damage dealt is based soley on max mana and spell damage making it a spell attack even if it don't look like one.

Those saying Annulment or its morphs are not working right are not chekcing the source...take any stamina based skill and use it against an Dampen Magicka user and you will see it won;'t protect you.

Dampen Magicka is still quite good though considering all class skills in the game use Magicka and Spell damage as their bases and thus can be migitated by Annulment.

CPT_CAPSLOCK · November 2014

@woodsro u are soooo wrong. There are no stamina or magicka attacks, there only are physical attacks and spell attacks and Teleport Strike for example is a physical attack, that doenst get effected from Annulemt.
Most Melee attacks are physical attacks btw.

//but it should be said, that they are thinking about a change to that cause it cause some confusion

@Draxys u are totally out of date, it got patched a few weeks ago.

@AllPlayAndNOWork Annulement doesnt absorb physical attacks, but if u have another shield running you will get the magicka from harness magicka back when the other shield absorbs a physical attack. Thats a bug, but known since the changes to harness mag.

//just saw that u are talking about the dampen morph, cannot confirm anything about that morph.

Merlin13KAGL · November 2014

Spell based only.

The short version is this: If it's normally mitigated by spell resistance, Dampen Magicka will mitigate it first, returning magicka up to three times per cast.

In the same way Armor (not counting passives here) does nothing for spell resist, Spell resist, and thus Dampen Magicka does nothing for physical mitigation.

Also, if you're seeing physical damage get blocked, are you sure it's not an enchantment that's actually getting blocked, so less damage goes through making it appear it's doing something it's not?

Armor/Spell resist
Dampen Magicka/Hardeded Ward (or Healing, if you prefer)

Opposite sides of the same coin.

AllPlayAndNoWork · November 2014

Well Dampen Magic does in fact absorb physical attacks - The only attack I used was focused aim.

Sorry about the small size but its all there, plain to see. All together 5050 physical damage was absorbed.

Merlin13KAGL · November 2014

AllPlayAndNoWork wrote: »

Well Dampen Magic does in fact absorb physical attacks - The only attack I used was focused aim.

Sorry about the small size but its all there, plain to see. All together 5050 physical damage was absorbed.

You're add-on's confused.

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