Guardian Sphere Rocks!!

[Tro]

<DIV>I just upgraded this to Adept III.. Here is my most recent experience.. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Myself (52 Guard) and my 51 Temp Wife/50 Dirge and 43 Wizzy doing the eyepatch HQ in Everfrost. We were collecting shards and when we got to the blue (I think) shard, there was a white flappy (48 or ^ ^ ^ Heroic) Named mob flying around that naked tree in the middle of this area killing other mobs as it flew by them.  We thought "well don't this beat all" .. We waited and he de popped and got the shards..</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Later on we had to go back to that same exact spot and kill another named (The last one out of three we had to kill).  Well you guessed it.. Flappy is back.. so we </DIV> <DIV>say screw it.. we killed a couple roamers near us and I pulled this thing. We figured what the heck, we can just evac if needed lol.. Anyway, I pull it with arrow and then couple taunts, got it situated and then hit MD, our 30 sec mitigation buff, GS and Wall of Brawn (Think that was the order). All CA's at Adept III except MD at M2.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>We got it down to 43% but the Temp ran out of power.. (Little more DPS or another healer and we would have had it). I scrolled my text up to see how effective GS was.. I did see the Stoneskin proc atleast twice but was kinda busy and didn't notice exactly how many times.. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>As I scrolled up, my jaw dropped. I saw an entry that said (Can't remember the exact workding): "Your Stoneskin absorbed 1742 points of damage".. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I f'ing love this !! I was wondering why I wasn't dead within the first minute or so of the fight.. We were in a hurry to get this done so I didn't read al the text concerning GS but was happy to see that much damage absorbed.        </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Anyone else see similar results?</DIV><p>Message Edited by Trook on <span class=date_text>11-14-2005</span> <span class=time_text>03:23 AM</span>

[Exill]

Yep, SoE finally made one of our spells actually useful. Go figure. But I do thank them for that.<div></div>

[Tro]

<DIV>Well I certainly do thank them (And that happens rarely at best). </DIV><p>Message Edited by Trook on <span class=date_text>11-14-2005</span> <span class=time_text>03:32 AM</span>

[Urglu]

That's unmittigated damage it absorbed.

[Mig]

Gaige says, "This will be adjusted soon."<p>Message Edited by Migyb on <span class=date_text>11-13-2005</span> <span class=time_text>12:56 PM</span>

[Tro]

Ofcourse Gaige says that.. it's a positive change for us guards. That's what I expect from him so I pay no attention. <DIV> </DIV><p>Message Edited by Trook on <span class=date_text>11-13-2005</span> <span class=time_text>10:26 AM</span>

[aislynn00]

<DIV>That Guardian Sphere currently absorbs damage dealt to us directly, as opposed to via the damage transferral aspect of the ability, is probably a bug and so will be changed sooner or later.  Too bad, really; it truly <EM>is</EM> a nice class upgrade.  Now, if they'd give our hate generation an overhaul, remove the shield breaker aspect of Tower of Stone, and leave GS untouched, I'd be downright happy playing my class again.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV>

[Macross_JR]

<span><blockquote><hr>aislynn00 wrote:<div>That Guardian Sphere currently absorbs damage dealt to us directly, as opposed to via the damage transferral aspect of the ability, is probably a bug and so will be changed sooner or later.  Too bad, really; it truly <em>is</em> a nice class upgrade.  Now, if they'd give our hate generation an overhaul, remove the shield breaker aspect of Tower of Stone, and leave GS untouched, I'd be downright happy playing my class again.</div> <div> </div><hr></blockquote>Why is it a bug?  Are we Guardians not part of the group?  It is a group buff, Guardians are part of the group, so I see it as working as intended.</span><div></div>

[ReviloTX]

<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> Trook wrote:<BR> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>We got it down to 43% but the Temp ran out of power.. (Little more DPS or another healer and we would have had it). </DIV> <DIV> </DIV><BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE>Or you could have just had a bruiser tank it :smileysurprised:<BR>

[Aethane]

<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> ReviloTX wrote:<BR><BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> Trook wrote:<BR> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>We got it down to 43% but the Temp ran out of power.. (Little more DPS or another healer and we would have had it). </DIV> <DIV> </DIV><BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE>Or you could have just had a bruiser tank it :smileysurprised:<BR> <BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR>used guardian sphere to tank the named for the carpet part 3 quest, mob casts ice comet for BIG dmg, first try without guardian sphere, BAM one ice comet, 12k dmg, i died, group wiped, second try used guardian sphere this time, procced and absorbed 15k dmg, i lived and shortly after we killed him. Do that with your big bad bruiser <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[Tro]

<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> Aethane wrote:<BR><BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> ReviloTX wrote:<BR><BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> Trook wrote:<BR> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>We got it down to 43% but the Temp ran out of power.. (Little more DPS or another healer and we would have had it). </DIV> <DIV> </DIV><BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE>Or you could have just had a bruiser tank it :smileysurprised:<BR> <BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR>used guardian sphere to tank the named for the carpet part 3 quest, mob casts ice comet for BIG dmg, first try without guardian sphere, BAM one ice comet, 12k dmg, i died, group wiped, second try used guardian sphere this time, procced and absorbed 15k dmg, i lived and shortly after we killed him. Do that with your big bad bruiser <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> <BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE>I would like some clarification please.. does the Stoneskin absorb nuke damage only or both nukes and melee?

[Shakir10]

<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <P></P> <HR> <P>Trook wrote</P> <P>I would like some clarification please.. does the Stoneskin absorb nuke damage only or both nukes and melee?</P> <BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR> <DIV>it will obsorb a shot of any one stream of dammage,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>So it (the stone skin) can obsorb a shot of Magic/Divine/Heat/Cold/Poison/Disease/Crushing/Piercing/Slashing.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I don't know if there is streight dammage done from mental spells, but if so I immagine it would obsorb a shot of that too.</DIV><p>Message Edited by Shakir1065 on <span class=date_text>11-14-2005</span> <span class=time_text>04:03 AM</span>

[Tro]

ok thanks.. Appreciate it..

[lostsandman]

<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> Aethane wrote:<BR><BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> ReviloTX wrote:<BR><BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> Trook wrote:<BR> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>We got it down to 43% but the Temp ran out of power.. (Little more DPS or another healer and we would have had it). </DIV> <DIV> </DIV><BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE>Or you could have just had a bruiser tank it :smileysurprised:<BR> <BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR>used guardian sphere to tank the named for the carpet part 3 quest, mob casts ice comet for BIG dmg, first try without guardian sphere, BAM one ice comet, 12k dmg, i died, group wiped, second try used guardian sphere this time, procced and absorbed 15k dmg, i lived and shortly after we killed him. Do that with your big bad bruiser <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> <BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR>don't they have Tsunami which is better than this (for themselfs anyway). eg it can also take dmage for 15s?

[Exill]

Bruisers have an ability called Stone Deaf (absorbs 3 magic hits) which could have done the exact same thing.<div></div>

[Urglu]

<blockquote><hr>Exill wrote:Bruisers have an ability called Stone Deaf (absorbs 3 magic hits) which could have done the exact same thing.<div></div><hr></blockquote>Not to mention theirs works everytime, we have to get lucky and have it proc at the right time.

[Skha]

<span><blockquote><hr>Urglunt wrote:<blockquote><hr>Exill wrote:Bruisers have an ability called Stone Deaf (absorbs 3 magic hits) which could have done the exact same thing.<div></div><hr></blockquote>Not to mention theirs works everytime, we have to get lucky and have it proc at the right time.<hr></blockquote>It doesnt.</span><div></div>

[Urglu]

<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> Skharr wrote:<BR><SPAN><BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> Urglunt wrote:<BR><BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> Exill wrote:<BR>Bruisers have an ability called Stone Deaf (absorbs 3 magic hits) which could have done the exact same thing.<BR> <BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR><BR>Not to mention theirs works everytime, we have to get lucky and have it proc at the right time.<BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE>It doesnt.<BR></SPAN> <BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR>Isn't that a bug though.