Curse

Seron Dalar · Sep 10, 2005, 05:23 AM // 05:23

Why doesn't it block Stone Daggers? I'd bet there are other examples of this, but I was doing the Lion's Arch Titans quest earlier, packed Swirling Aura, put it on-- every Stone Dagger hit. It says it blocks "arrows and magical projectiles"-- so that should include Flare, Ice Spear, Stone Daggers, Stoning, Water Trident, Fireball, Phoenix... anyone know what's up with that?

bunnys are ebil · Sep 10, 2005, 05:24 AM // 05:24

magical projectiles is wand+staff orb thingys that they shoot

Seron Dalar · Sep 10, 2005, 05:35 AM // 05:35

Oh... what the hell. Then Swirling Aura is completely useless, aside from its awesome animation. Give it a 30-second recharge, 45 even, and then I'd consider it, but 60 seconds is just way too much.

Mercury Angel · Sep 10, 2005, 03:25 PM // 15:25

It could be the standard deal falling under the heading of, 'misleading or blatantly incorrect' description.

(Not at you, at the person that wrote the descriptions.)

I have NEVER heard staff and wand attacks called 'Magical Projectiles' prior to this skill. Projectiles, Attacks, and when a skill doesn't affect both arrows and wand/staff hits, it'll be arrows that're the only attacks affected, in which case they specify arrows.
There is NO skill that specifically addresses wand/staff hits, and seeing as this skill includes arrows, I see no reason to start. Ranged Attacks would fall under the heading of both.

Magical Projectiles is the name used to refer to magical offensive spells that fire of a projectile that can miss through manual movement on the part of the defender, and do not automatically hit the chest piece.

Either this skill is in need of a description change, or it's broken like Mist Form used to be, one way or the other, and I hope it's broken. The effect sounded unique and interesting. If it's just the description that's wrong, it's overpriced and has a crappy recharge, like Magnetic Aura.

Mercury Angel · Oct 13, 2005, 05:58 PM // 17:58

I took those skills out to play with a group of ice imps, which spam Ice Spear, a water-based magical projectile.
Their wand/staff attacks rarely hit, but the ice spears hit 100% of the time. Every ice spear animation that got to me dealt damage, eventually killing me with ease when Armor of Mist wore off, dealing 72 damage a cast.

It is definitely either broken or misleading, and I'm going to go out on a limb and venture- misleading.

[I apologize for the double post, but in this instance, I don't think editing a month old thread is going to share the information]