Spells: Rune spells not absorbing spell damage.

[baub]

Rune definitely blocked spells during Kunark and Velious..

Luclin I can't comment on as that is when I stopped playing

[Throb]

I'm absolutely sure it always did, up until I quit in the OoW era. Problem is I'm having trouble finding evidence outside of mine and other people's recollections.

[guineapig]

Just going to throw this in there. Bards have a separate song for damage absorbing rune song and spell damage absorbing rune song. Not sure if that's any indication of anything...

I honestly can't remember if I ever used Rune to block spell damage... Also, I spent more time playing post-Luclin than I did pre-Luclin.

[Aadill]

http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/s...tml?spell=1931

Increase Absorb Damage by 16 (L1) to 796 (L53)

I know for a fact the wizard epic (Staff of the Four) was all about some absorbing spell damage. It says nothing about absorbing spell damage, as some of the other runes do, and I know spells exist that specifically absorb spell damage, but those I believe stacked with BoF.

I think it was LDoN that upon preordering my wizard was set back to level 50. I went on a Vox raid and never took any damage because I kept recasting my epic. It did wonders in ToV, as well. This spell hasn't changed much according to Lucy, just a bunch of unknown stuff (http://lucy.allakhazam.com/spellhist...31&source=Test)

Although that is a special rune, the regular ones that enchanters cast should absorb damage as well. Here's a raidstrat from The Syndicate:

http://www.llts.org/History.php?p=36VenrilSathir

Granted this is from 2001 but this specifically states runes were used to avoid the lifetap:

2 were enchanters but due to the level differences only 1 could rune since the other couldnt overwrite theirs.

Suddenly a rune missed and Lekne went from full health to dead in about 1 second.

Vs bounced between Nyka and Udyo (the Secondary Assist) for a few seconds as the enchanters key runes up absorbing his LifeTap

[Throb]

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

http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/s...tml?spell=1931



I know for a fact the wizard epic (Staff of the Four) was all about some absorbing spell damage. It says nothing about absorbing spell damage, as some of the other runes do, and I know spells exist that specifically absorb spell damage, but those I believe stacked with BoF.

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).

[Nizzarr]

In fact, the runes were just there to prevent venril sathir from proc'ing his lifetap. They werent absorbing it per say.

Since runes here dont prevent procs -- its gonna be interesting fighting a mob that procs 1.5k lifetap every 3-4 hits

[Scrooge]

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

Since runes here dont prevent procs -- its gonna be interesting fighting a mob that procs 1.5k lifetap every 3-4 hits

I've actually experienced that up close and personal a few days ago...it wasn't pretty.

[Rais]

I'm guessing 99% of the people in the thread never killed VS in kunark. You would know how this spell line works, if so!

Thanks for the update Uth!

[Rottening]

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

I'm guessing 99% of the people in the thread never killed VS in kunark. You would know how this spell line works, if so!

Thanks for the update Uth!

Heh it wasn't until someone mentioned VS that I realized how horribly wrong I was.

[Aadill]

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

Heh it wasn't until someone mentioned VS that I realized how horribly wrong I was.

VS was pretty much the only real necessary use of Rune. Beyond that, it was considered a bonus. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]