Spells: Enchanter Rune line

[Omnimorph]

Originally Posted by Gorroth [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Runes absorbed all kinds of damage. I remember enchanters casting rune IV on a tank for one of the first Venril Sathir kills on my server. Venril used melee and spell damage.

Not quite, the reason this was cast on people for VS was that when a mob lifetaps someone with rune, whilst the damage still takes a portion (or all) of the rune, the damage done doesn't get fed back to the caster as hit points.

VS casted a lifetap so if he did hp damage to you he'd heal himself, hence why a rune prevented this.

I stand by that it didn't shield against dot damage though [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Edit: reread what you said, yes it did protect against the spell damage that he procced... which is probably what you were saying =.=

[dali_lb]

Why it also worked on DoT's. they work exactly like DD's. They just do the magic dmg each tick. If a rune is present it will absorb the dmg.

[Omnimorph]

I remember dying quite a bit on live to dots, and that was with rune up, I can't vouch for it in the very earliest of live (I was still learning my class, bad memory etc.) but i don't ever remember it being like that. Could be i'm wrong...

Fall damage, don't think rune protected against that. Lava damage, don't think it protected against that either... drowning [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] didn't protect against drowning damage. I don't think it protected against dots. Anyone else's thoughts?

[guineapig]

I honestly can't remember any more.
I just know I used to use it to absorb nuke damage all the time on raids. That combined with Berserker.

[swamp]

Should protect against DD's, including the DD portion of DoT's.

Should not protect against the DoT portion of DoT's.