Rune Focus possibly bugged

sentientomega · August 2019

This ability's tooltip reads as follows: "Create a rune of celestial protection. While active, the rune grants you Major Resolve and Major Ward, increasing your Physical Resistance and Spell Resistance by 5280. Standing within the rune increases Physical Resistance and Spell Resistance granted by 50%."

Now, what this means, and was indeed demonstrated a couple of patches ago, is that whether your character's in the rune area or not, you gain the base resistances at a minimum, and the bonus resistance if you were inside the circle.

What I've seen today is that Rune Focus now only offers any resistance (base and bonus) while inside the rune area, in contrast to the tooltip info, and no word of this change was in any patch notes. Is this a bug, or a stealth change?

nickl413 · August 2019

It appears to be working fine on all three of my templars.

sentientomega · August 2019

@nickl413

Working fine how? Like the tooltip says? Remember, it does not say you have to stand in it to get any benefit at all, only extra benefit.

Outside of the rune's area, your health bar's augmented by the resistance buff, and visually shown to be so?

I am talking about the base ability, btw, not any morph. If I'm right, you'd have it morphed. I'm noticing no drop in damage sustained with it active, outside of the rune's area on the base morph.

nickl413 · August 2019

Working fine like according to my character sheet My resistances are up. Yes, outside the rune. And yes I looked at the unmorphed version as well as both morphs.

Just checked, and yes, it augments the health bar and decreases incoming damage.

nickl413 · August 2019

Correction: Health bar is NOT augmented outside the rune, however, incoming damage is reduced.

sentientomega · September 2019

nickl413 wrote: »

Correction: Health bar is NOT augmented outside the rune, however, incoming damage is reduced.

That would make sense, since it wasn't that easy to see whether or not everything was working as it should. I will have to check again, though; experiment with damage being dealt by enemies, because I could've sworn that during the dolmen fights, in which I was alone, I was taking the same damage as if the rune wasn't active at all. For sure, I've seen the resistance buffs active on the buffs bar, I really hope they do prove to be actually providing that resistance when I start testing again.

sentientomega · September 2019

You're right, @nickl413 . It *is* working, I turned on combat numbers, and tested it with a wolf NPC. In the rune area, outside the rune area with said rune active, and without the rune active at all, there doesn't seem to be an huge amount of mitigation, but it should still help complement Rally's heal with Sacred Ground. It should be of some use, still, unless I decide on a more comprehensive build change. Thanks for helping me out, it's cleared things up.

nickl413 · September 2019

Ya it's not much. Major resolve/ward only adds about 8% mitigation.

OG_Kaveman · September 2019

nickl413 wrote: »

Ya it's not much. Major resolve/ward only adds about 8% mitigation.

You get that regardless of whether or not you are in the rune but you get an extra ~4% while you stand in the rune

FrancisCrawford · September 2019

Did you check the resistance numbers on your character sheet?

nickl413 · September 2019

OG_Kaveman wrote: »

nickl413 wrote: »

Ya it's not much. Major resolve/ward only adds about 8% mitigation.

You get that regardless of whether or not you are in the rune but you get an extra ~4% while you stand in the rune

Yes i know, we are talking about damage mitigation outside the rune.

sentientomega · September 2019

FrancisCrawford wrote: »

Did you check the resistance numbers on your character sheet?

I'm afraid that didn't occur to me in the middle of combat, all that action going on.