Hello,

does protect on PBAoErs work on uthgard? Somewhere i heard that it should not. If that is the case, it would be good to know, so melees wont have to bother protecting poor little SMs anymore

If that works, it should be written in logs that mobs is distracted by the one who protects you (as for the healer).

Gemma wrote:Hello,

does protect on PBAoErs work on uthgard?

It shouldn't work since protect is not supposed to work for pbaoes and bow attacks.

well it does work on other meele chars.
couple of tanks tried to use it to get aggro from me (VW), it does help a bit although a detaunt on my part seems to move more aggro then they using protect on me, but all in all it should be used for healers as intendet.

you can guard and intercept a bomb, that should be enough.

they dont generate that much aggro anyway inc omparison to healers and DD mages.

just ask the one your protecting if he gets the message "XXX protects you and mob is distracted" or something like that.
if that kind of message shows, its working.

ana wrote:It shouldn't work since protect is not supposed to work for pbaoes and bow attacks.

Excuse me ? Since which patch ? I remember lvling my eld on live a long time ago, and i can assure you that there was a HUGE difference between protect and no protect.
Sauce.

Protect works fine provided you're hitting the mob the PBA-er is.

PBAoE is just another damaging spell. I doubt mobs are intelligent enough to know the difference between a single nuke and a pbaoe nuke

Well there's actually a difference vs another spell : you're right next to the mob. The distance to the mob play a part in the amount of aggro you get iirc. Still, protec works just fine.

arkiel wrote:Well there's actually a difference vs another spell : you're right next to the mob.

Aaaaaaaaaaaand how's that different from using normal nukes at close range ?

Sorry, nitpicking I know.

It's different in that usually, you avoid casting nukes at close range when you have a group, and you rarely cast a long-range pbae. Of course, if you like to cast normal nuke at close range, feel free to do so. :>

Funkling wrote:Protect works fine provided you're hitting the mob the PBA-er is.

PBAoE is just another damaging spell. I doubt mobs are intelligent enough to know the difference between a single nuke and a pbaoe nuke

yeah on uthgard mobs must be stupider than on live cause on live protect has no effect on PBAOE spells...

or maybe it's not the mobs that are stupid, but...
Pana who flame staff once again again


warning given

bah nixian that edit when he even not understand a post... there were no flaming against the staff at all... i have really no reason to do.

i want public appologies

panachier wrote:yeah on uthgard mobs must be stupider than on live cause on live protect has no effect on PBAOE spells...

or maybe it's not the mobs that are stupid, but...

Once again, I'm forced to request a sauce for this. I've always felt the difference on live.

Don't take him seriously he's the forum clown.

If he wasn't so god damn funny he'd probably get banned after the dozens of warnings/mod edits I've seen him get :p