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Death Attacks Don't Effect Absorb?

AuthorMessage
Survivor
Apr 06, 2011
4
Why don't death school attacks effect absorbs? When bosses use absorb of either ice or life schools, death attacks do not touch the absorbs, and do damage as they would normally. When I cast absorb on myself, similarly, incoming death spells do not effect the absorb, and do the same damage as they normally would. I've never noticed this happening before, but I was just wondering why this is happening. Is it supposed to be like that, for some unknown reason, or is it a glitch?

Scarlet Firerider

Armiger
Jan 11, 2012
2497
Because life sapping spells are not regular damage spells. Take Skeletal Pirate vs Wraith. The pirate physically attacks and damages the opponent, something absorb prevents. Wraith on the other hand sucks the life out of them and gives the caster half. It's the difference of attack methods. Because no "physical damage" is being done, there is nothing to absorb; there is no incoming damage.

Champion
Mar 27, 2011
405
it's always been that way. Drains aren't damage, so they don't get absorbed.

Delver
Jun 27, 2013
299
All the drain health spells, Ghoul, Vampire, Scarecrow...etc, don't actuall count as attack damage. They hit as Drain Health damage instead. Absorb spells work for straight damage, so don't go into the math for drain spells.
It's always been this way since I started playing a few years back...

Geographer
Oct 09, 2011
946
It's only for drains, not all Death attacks. It's not a glitch as it's always been like that (I think).

Survivor
Feb 07, 2015
2
Yep. It is done that way to create a sense of balance in the game. Drains do less damage.

Dark Sprite: 80-120 (1 pip), would be 165-205 if (2 pips).
Ghoul: 160 damage, drain back for 50% health.

165-205 is greater than 160, on average by 25 damage points or about 14%.

They added that feature for balance.

Survivor
Apr 06, 2011
4
Oh alright, thank you to those of you who are more observant than me. That balance does seem fair.
Thanks