AMS nerf - Ambiguous Wording

#0 - March 24, 2009, 12:55 a.m.

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Note: I think the AMS nerf was justified. Its a niche most of us didn't want and I hope getting the ability downsized will help for balancing us in other areas of the game as well.

That being said:

Unholy

* Anti-Magic Shell now absorbs absorbing 75% of the damage dealt by harmful spells (up to a maximum of 50% of the Death Knight's health).

Does this mean the bubble will "pop" at 50% of our max health? i.e. at roughly 20k damage absorbed it will dissipate and leave us without protection from magic even during the duration?

Or will the effect simply not absorb more than 20k per magic attack for the duration?

Also, are the magic effects counted as well?

Ghostcrawler

#109 - March 24, 2009, 4:27 a.m.

Q u o t e:
Its just a cap on the mitigation.

If an attack did 100% of your health, you would take 50% of your health in damage. Instead of 25% without magic surpression and 0% with it. The bubble would be gone afterward too.

I'm not exactly sure if this really "solves" anything though. Its still guaranteed survival against anything a tank is actually supposed to get hit by. It just stops you from say, eating frost breath from Saph or the 1,000,000 damage rocket strikes from Mimiron with magic suppression. Well, actually I suppose it does make it significantly less effective against plasms blast, so it does make the skill weaker against some of the things tanks actually get hit by.

This is fairly accurate, and yes Mimiron (and similar situations) was the problem here, not QQ from other classes.