It's been working like that since launch (except when they messed up the skill). Eclipse was my favorite way to troll OP DK's wing spammers back in the old days. Everything needs a counter... just break free out of it or purge it
Savos_Saren wrote: »You can literally apply Total Dark to a DK that casts wings for defense and just spam him with javelin and he'll unintentionally commit suicide.
I was wondering why more and more Templars were using this skill lately.
Savos_Saren wrote: »It's been working like that since launch (except when they messed up the skill). Eclipse was my favorite way to troll OP DK's wing spammers back in the old days. Everything needs a counter... just break free out of it or purge it
I've been using wings for a long time... I've never once seen it like this, though.
I'm finding mDK less and less appealing these days.
Yep haha, volatile+jabs and ooh boy it hurts, 4 ticks of it in 1s since volatile procs per melee damage, not per melee attack. And eclipse reflects every single target direct damage.
It never breakfrees properly either. Bashbashbash and a lot of damage later.
Savos_Saren wrote: »It's been working like that since launch (except when they messed up the skill). Eclipse was my favorite way to troll OP DK's wing spammers back in the old days. Everything needs a counter... just break free out of it or purge it
I've been using wings for a long time... I've never once seen it like this, though.
I'm finding mDK less and less appealing these days.
Savos_Saren wrote: »Wings are just becoming less and less useful as this comes to light. They don't reflect secondary effects from attacks, they're rendered useless after four light attacks, they're too expensive, and now I figured out that they can kill me if a Templar hits me with Total Dark.
FFS, ZOS.
Savos_Saren wrote: »Wings are just becoming less and less useful as this comes to light. They don't reflect secondary effects from attacks, they're rendered useless after four light attacks, they're too expensive, and now I figured out that they can kill me if a Templar hits me with Total Dark.
FFS, ZOS.
They never reflected already active effects - imagine DoT arrows - can't reflect a poison if you already have been stung, obviously.
It depends on the situation, though I would like for the developers to look into the issue of attacks, that go through the wings, maybe because there are too many effects at one time or whatever the issue is. That might be which makes you feel, they are less and less useful. Same as with the buggy mist form, it wouldn't surprise me to see many vampires seeking a cure now.
Savos_Saren wrote: »Wings are just becoming less and less useful as this comes to light. They don't reflect secondary effects from attacks, they're rendered useless after four light attacks, they're too expensive, and now I figured out that they can kill me if a Templar hits me with Total Dark.
FFS, ZOS.
They never reflected already active effects - imagine DoT arrows - can't reflect a poison if you already have been stung, obviously.
It depends on the situation, though I would like for the developers to look into the issue of attacks, that go through the wings, maybe because there are too many effects at one time or whatever the issue is. That might be which makes you feel, they are less and less useful. Same as with the buggy mist form, it wouldn't surprise me to see many vampires seeking a cure now.
Savos_Saren wrote: »Yep haha, volatile+jabs and ooh boy it hurts, 4 ticks of it in 1s since volatile procs per melee damage, not per melee attack. And eclipse reflects every single target direct damage.
It never breakfrees properly either. Bashbashbash and a lot of damage later.
How the [snip] can our defensive skills kill us, man? Geez. The counter to that should be that we can reflect the damage from Backlash...
Savos_Saren wrote: »Yep haha, volatile+jabs and ooh boy it hurts, 4 ticks of it in 1s since volatile procs per melee damage, not per melee attack. And eclipse reflects every single target direct damage.
It never breakfrees properly either. Bashbashbash and a lot of damage later.
How the [snip] can our defensive skills kill us, man? Geez. The counter to that should be that we can reflect the damage from Backlash...
Wings defends you by negating enemy projectiles and doing direct damage to the casting enemy. Of course that direct damage you deal would be reflected by Total Dark. Don't pretend that Wings is solely defensive, either; one of its morphs is explicitly about increasing the reflect damage you deal to other players. The fact that mDK defenses also have offensive components is one thing that makes mDK so strong. The flip side of that is that Total Dark is more dangerous to mDKs than to other classes.
If you're playing correctly, you should only have Total Dark on you for about 1-2 seconds before the break-free works anyway. If you're getting burst down in that time because a templar has lined up a Total Dark reflect + Sweeps combo, maybe you got outplayed.
I can understand reflected spells counting, but Volatile Armor ticks dealing Total Dark damage to the DK is most likely a bug and should be addressed.
I can understand reflected spells counting, but Volatile Armor ticks dealing Total Dark damage to the DK is most likely a bug and should be addressed.
I can understand reflected spells counting, but Volatile Armor ticks dealing Total Dark damage to the DK is most likely a bug and should be addressed.
@DDuke are you saying that Volatile Armor DOT ticks are actually dealing Total Dark damage? I'm pretty sure it's the Volatile melee damage return that procs Total Dark, not the DOT ticks. In that case it wouldn't be a bug, since those are individual sources of direct damage, not DOTs.
Savos_Saren wrote: »Let's get something completely clear, though. Technically, Eclipse shouldn't reflect back the projectiles that a DK reflects. Look at the verbiage of Eclipse and it's morphs:
"Eclipse: Envelop enemy in a lightless sphere that reflects back any harmful projectile they cast back at them for 3.5 seconds."
A DK does not cast any of the abilities he reflects.
Savos_Saren wrote: »Let's get something completely clear, though. Technically, Eclipse shouldn't reflect back the projectiles that a DK reflects. Look at the verbiage of Eclipse and it's morphs:
"Eclipse: Envelop enemy in a lightless sphere that reflects back any harmful projectile they cast back at them for 3.5 seconds."
A DK does not cast any of the abilities he reflects.
I think if we descend to that level of nitpicking about the specific verbage of tooltips, we'll find a lot of "bugs" all over the place.
The fact that the armor buff from dk has dmg that can reflectable is crazy.
DK and Templar both have no mobility HOWEVER, Templar can out heal and purify all of the dk dot dmg.
So forcing the dk to then not use its armor buff even further pushes it to the Templar side.
Unbalanced and not good gameplay
I believe this(total dark reflecting back at DK something he already reflected with wings) to be a bug.
Reason: It used to be that any reflectable spell could be reflected two times. A DK with wings up could counter another DK's wings - spell went from caster to target, then back to caster, then back to target.
ZOS fixed this so that any spell could only be reflected once. So they clearly do no want an already-reflected spell to be bouncing back and forth. It seems to me they missed total dark when doing the fixing.