Curse

tastegw · Apr 03, 2005, 07:42 AM // 07:42

Protective Bond
While you maintain this Enchantment, target ally cannot take more than 5% damage at one time. When Protective Bond prevents damage, you lose 6-3 energy or the spell ends.
Enchantment - 25 energy, -1 regen - 2 cast - 0 recharge

my question here is.

is it 5% of the damage itself
or is it 5% of your total life

say i have 500 life does this mean protective bond makes the dmg i take in 25 or less, that isnt so bad now that i think about it.

or does it mean that say you hit me with a 100 dmg shot, i only take 5 dmg?

lol either way, i think this is a great skill if used on a energy wise build.

i am asking this question because of another skills wording.

Protective Spirit
For 5-19 seconds, target ally cannot lose more than 10% health due to damage from a single attack or spell.
Enchantment - 10 energy - 1 cast - 5 recharge

both of these are great skills to keep somebody alive when they are at low health.

say you have 10 health and player x hits you with 500000 dmg, you dont die. thats awesome. because you only loose 1 health from that 500000 dmg hit. Protective spirit allows you some time to heal yourself or get healed by others on your team, imo, this is a must have skill for any healing or protective monk............keeping your team alive= priceless.

mostro · Apr 03, 2005, 08:51 AM // 08:51

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Originally Posted by SuperJ24

Protective Spirit
For 5-19 seconds, target ally cannot lose more than 10% health due to damage from a single attack or spell.
Enchantment - 10 energy - 1 cast - 5 recharge

both of these are great skills to keep somebody alive when they are at low health.

say you have 10 health and player x hits you with 500000 dmg, you dont die. thats awesome. because you only loose 1 health from that 500000 dmg hit. Protective spirit allows you some time to heal yourself or get healed by others on your team, imo, this is a must have skill for any healing or protective monk............keeping your team alive= priceless.

I think Protective Spirit allows 10% of your max health as damage, not your current health (so it would allow max damage of 48 per attack for someone without health modifier). I don't think the spell works like you were hoping for. But someone more experienced with the spell would have to confirm this.

It is still a good spell because it can absorb a lot of spike damage from elementalist spells for example. But it won't do much good if your enemy uses high frequency low damage attacks such as IW damage.