Yep, I was reading through some stuff (lost it now) but it said that necros don't gather the full hp potential of a lifetap if a mob is runed. It was either partial or it only took what the rune didn't cover, so it would still be possible to have VS's lifetap go through if the melee damage and proc happened in a fashion that out-damaged the rune. This makes the most sense as I do also recall having BoF disappear and be hit for some random number of points of damage (this of course was partially due to resists, but I was hit for <10 damage on multiple occasions). It would make sense that an unresisted 800 damage AE would cause 4 points of damage if you had BoF... I just can't recall a situation in which that occurred.
I'll look for that info again.. I JUST READ IT but closed the window after making my post.
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Yep, and the wizard epic was essentially a component free steelskin/diamondskin. That's why it was nice in classic zones in conjunction with a manastone. This is also why enchanters, wizards, necros, etc generally always kept a skin/rune up for PVP or encounters with AE direct damage effects (like TOV, which you mentioned).
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Yep! Kept every class not being watched for healing safe, or at least slowed down the rate that mana had to be wasted healing a caster that got nailed by an AoE.
Also, <3 Wizard Epic + Manastone <3