Thanks for testing that Arato, I'm almost to IV with Defensive Posture and was curious about the effect of the Absorb morph. Despite it not reflecting the spell back, I'll still be taking it, as I'm building a NB Siphoning (leech) tank.

@Khizank I just morphed the ability last night before I went to bed. I'll hop back on right now (just got home from work) and try to test that out. Sounds like a pretty vicious bug, though the Siphon tree has quite a few of those itself. :wtf:

EDIT: Alright, did some testing on mobs that did only melee attacks and skills (crocodiles), melee attacks and magic skills (hags) and only magic attacks and skills (imps). I didn't experience anything even close to what you've got going on, sorry. Only thing I can suggest is reporting it as a bug if you haven't already.

I had the effect on friday, as tank in the Fungal grotto against that spider queen. I activated absorb magic. Because I was hit very hard, I was healed (by a groupmate)- but this heal affected only the pink bar. Later, when the effect faded, it did not fill the pink part red, only the small red bar remained, which had 5% left, but almost full pink bar. Like, if Pink bar is used up, then you get healed, that "new" pink bar does not count as actual HP (or only the part, that was not healed).

So I tried to reproduce it yesterday. Seems that - if it was a bug - fixed. Or those times it was something different...

I saw something else while playing around with mudcrabs . When the pink bar goes lower, there still is a dark grey bar, that goes down at the same time like the red/pink bar - like temporary hitpoints or something like that. But it is hard to tell, if it really 'absorbed' damage... When the effect fades, only the red/pink bar remains as actual hitpoints. Whatever it is, it is not described in the text...

Edit: made it clear I was healed by a groupmate, sorry for being a bit unclear there...

@Koensol‌
You could be right about health increase. You can see the Duration, when you mouse-over on the icon in the "k" menu (at least if you morphed it...)

Btw, I edited my post above, to make it clear I was healed by a groupmate (not the skill). I would assume, that a heal from another player should not be lost when the Skill runs out.
Else, a Healer has real problems healing a tank that uses absorb magic, because he has no chance to see the real HP (seeing pink plus red as one in his interface).

Why does the description not match with what the skill really does? This really should be clarified...

Anzer wrote: »

@Koensol @Khizank I don't believe this is the case. Testing the skill out while solo, the overlay bar seems to be the potential damage amount that the skill can absorb. I've only ever noticed my missing health regained by the mechanic, not that my maximum health was increasing.

On that note however, the skill does not seem to work against channeled spells, or it only works on the first tick of the channeling. I'll need to try testing it a bit more, but keep an eye out for enemies with channeled attacks. Also, the skill will absorb CC spells and cancel out, but with no health gain to yourself (of course, since the spell didn't do any damage). So be careful about which spells you're using the skill on.

I'm not entirely sure on the health increase either, but that is what I felt it did when I used it and the tooltip suggest this as well. But what I'm sure of is that it doesn't absorb channels. It only works on fired projectiles like magic bolts, fire balls, lightning balls, etc. No beams or channels or other spells.

Koensol wrote: »

Actually it is ridiculous that so many people on this forum are arguing about the effects of abilities and are unsure if it is working as intended. The tooltips in this game are the worst I have seen in ANY mmo I have ever played. And I'm playing them for about 10 years.

Yes, the tooltips are pretty atrocious. It'd be nice if we saw a bit of QA proofreading on everything. One of the passives in the Templar Dawn's Wrath line (Enduring Rays) increases the duration of Danw's Wrath abilities. That isn't a typo on my end.

The morphs are quite simple really, one returns the damage and the other absorbs the damage and changes it with 100% + health. Absorb Magick is great for Player versus Player especially on resources.