I Love Intercept...

[OrcSlayer96]

<DIV>Thought i would start a good natured post on our finally fixed intercept line and the high hits we absorbed and lived to tell about it, was doing a trash run last night in Labs and intercepted our guardian with my offense stance on and recieved around 9,000 damage out of buffed 9,400 health.  I love using this spell now on people that get agro or mt when he drops in low yellow or been hot by mit debuff.  Pallies have the unique advantage of being able to recover most if not all of our lost health by our sacrament line and other heals.  Been competing with other guildees on how much damage we cantake and still live(we are a fighter heavy guild).  </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Besides posting your experience with intercept(high damage, funny situations, etc..), i had a few questions to ask the community.  If multiple fighters cast intercept around the same time, is it the last one that sticks or the highest level of intercept?  If you ward yourself then intercept the damage, does your ward factor in the already mitigated intercept damage or does it do another mit check?  Is it possable to do a intercept chain on a initial pull where palle 2 intercepts pallie 1 who intercepts mt?  It looks to me like a intercept has a chance to procing a devout essense just like a normal hit to you, has anybody else noticed this?  If a tank is warded by say a mystic and then a pallie casts intercept, whhat is the order of precedence, does the intercept hit first, and ward is ignored, or ward hit first then overflow intercepted or does one or the other drop as a conflict?  I was thinking of creating a macro that will say in raidsay the target of my intercept then cast intercept so we dont have many fighters wasting there intercept, does anybody else use similar tactics?  If i intercept lets say 6,000 points of damage, is that hate i am generating myself as a psuedo heal to the tank or is it non agro generating?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I have my ideas on these questions but would like others views to see if i am close or way off, any input on these questions or just friendly posts on intercepts is appreciated...<img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></DIV>

[Leawyn]

I hardly ever use it. I always seem to use it when the MT takes a hit for like... 200. LOL!

[Anariale]

We pretty much mandate that every plate tank uses Intercede every time its up, while our leather tanks save theirs for when the tank gets hit with a large spike damage.  The damage is easily healed up by the group heals that your healers are casting anyways while raiding.Still, Id be a bit concerned about getting hit for 9K through an intercept... thats REALLY high.  Your mit under 4K or something?W<div></div>

[Geekyone]

<P>My monk buddie killed himself Intercepting for me.  Hahaha.  I told him to use intercept "occasionally"...guess he used it a bit too often.</P> <P>As for answers to your questions...I have no clue.  I know I use it when I can and it's a good thing.</P>

[Wulfborne]

<DIV>A lot of good questions you brought up there.. I'll have to play around and see if I can find out the answer to any of them.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>However, I too am concerned for your safety if you are getting a 9k hit through Intercept. I don't have the greatest miti in the world (especially since I usually give AC to the MT of the raid, and then go offensive to up some DPS) but I have yet to get hit that hard, and use the intercept a lot.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Maybe the stars aligned just right and it completely bypassed your mit and crit on you or something...</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Sir Hawke Holyblayde, Hero of Maj'Dul</DIV>

[Porky_uk]

<P>I've seen the itercept be really bad before, similar to the 9k damage, sometimes more.</P> <P>The obvious thing to look at is MIT, but what really hurts is an OT iintercepting your damage and the mob hitting with a really big AOE.</P> <P>It essentially doubles the damage.</P> <P>Gorbash<BR>Blind Guardians<BR>Everfrost</P>

[OrcSlayer96]

<DIV>Heheh I actually did something stupid to recieve that hit, shortly before the intercept, one of our players lagged in the zone and pulled the name by proximity, causing us to wipe instead of being locked out 6 days.  When we formed up i amends the the warlock tossed on my mit buff to MT and mistakenly choosed offense stance instead of defense.  When MT pulled the mobs, i warded him being as our mystic wasnt on yet.  One of the mobs switched to me long enough to tag me with a mit debuff, Mt gets nailed with a droag hitting him with hammer strike i think and i see my health drop 9,000 points.  This was a extreme case for me, usually i have defense stance on and take anywheres from 200 to 3500 damage with occassional hard to define damage where a barrage may have added to the total.  I can confirm that intercepts do indeed have a good chance of proccing a devout essense.  Last night we ran another trash mob run that yielded a cloth drop and at no time did i get agro yet recieved around 8 or so essences from my intercepts.  I did have one death when i intercepted our MT at the top of the stairs next to Pradus named and had a terror organ knock me back down to the bottom of the stairs.  Intercept took 1,200 damage but the fall slammed me with 8,600 damage.  I swear as a dwarf i take damage if i take more than 1 step at a time down a stairs...<img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></DIV>

[Wulfborne]

<DIV>But at least you're harder to knock over, what with the lower center of gravity and all... <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>~Sir Hawke Holyblayde, Hero of Maj'Dul</DIV><p>Message Edited by Wulfborne on <span class=date_text>07-13-2006</span> <span class=time_text>08:35 AM</span>

[OrcSlayer96]

<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> Wulfborne wrote:<BR> <DIV>But at least you're harder to knock over, what with the lower center of gravity and all... <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>~Sir Hawke Holyblayde, Hero of Maj'Dul</DIV> <P>Message Edited by Wulfborne on <SPAN class=date_text>07-13-2006</SPAN> <SPAN class=time_text>08:35 AM</SPAN><BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE>A nice feature of being a dwarf is when i feel like adding insult to injury i equip a polearm when battling epic mobs,  with the right camera angle and position, it looks like i am inflicting a  nuetering job to the epic that we are fighting.  Payback  for the smack those mobs are spewing at the last 15% or less health...<img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />  Lets see how that Droag can reach a high note with a halbard to the groin area..heheheh<BR>

[Leawyn]

<DIV>I <3 Steel.... forever and ever. <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></DIV>

[Squelch]

<DIV>First off i forget the name of the one i use, intercept or intercede. I use the highest level one, will call it intercept throughout the post weather thats correct or not. Well.... Seems Intercept was changed again AFTER it was fixed. I have M1 intercept, the spell says i intercept 100% and take 0% damage. A couple of weeks ago, using this in the Labs, this was true. I would take 0 damage on an intercept. But now a week or 2 later i AM taking damage from this. Not that kind of damage that is risking my life, maybe ~1-2k Max on a hard hit to the MT. It seems like my master has reverted to a adept 1 or 3 level, even though it says i take 0% damage. Can anyone shed some light on this?</DIV>

[Wulfborne]

<P>Hmm, I'm thinking you may have read it incorrectly, as I havent seen a change, and i also have the master 1 version.</P> <P>It states that you (the one "intercepting the damage" will take 100% of the damage from the hit (new and improved - it checks your miti before damage now) and the person you intercepted FOR will take 0%.</P> <P>Lower versions have you taking 100% of the damage, and the person you are saving takes a small amount, something like 25%, etc. I can't find a reference currently that states the amount.</P> <P>~Sir Hawke Holyblayde, Hero of Maj'Dul</P>

[Squelch]

<div><blockquote><hr>Wulfborne wrote:<div></div> <p>Hmm, I'm thinking you may have read it incorrectly, as I havent seen a change, and i also have the master 1 version.</p> <p>It states that you (the one "intercepting the damage" will take 100% of the damage from the hit (new and improved - it checks your miti before damage now) and the person you intercepted FOR will take 0%.</p> <p>Lower versions have you taking 100% of the damage, and the person you are saving takes a small amount, something like 25%, etc. I can't find a reference currently that states the amount.</p> <p>~Sir Hawke Holyblayde, Hero of Maj'Dul</p><hr></blockquote>You would be 100% correct... I mis read it. I never used the ability before, just in the last couple weeks. I guess when i was using it and didnt think i was taking any damage, i must of been intercepting ordinary low meele damage...</div>

[Seidhkona]

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[Leawyn]

<DIV>My favorite FTW comic!</DIV>

[BigDaddy253]

<P>That is just...way wrong.</P> <P>As for Intercept, I use it all the time when raiding.  Takes a few hits off the MT and I have used on more than one occasion to save a few casters and souts bacon when they pull arrggo.  They always seem to love me when I do that!</P>