inherent chance to reflect spells?

kyros · 01-31-2008, 06:32 PM

last week or so of playtime has been mostly dedicated to killing jarsath wastes named in a vain attempt to find some trooper scale boots. had a streak of 70+ kills with not even a legendary. drop rate ftl.

anyway, something happened that really bugged me.

a few days ago, i found the drachnid named up and got prepared to pull. i figure i'll start with my fear because it rarely gets resisted and can help me get my debuffs in. it didn't hit, didn't get resisted, it got reflected back at me. the word "reflected" popped up over the mob and everything. so i recover, do my dirge thing, manage to kill it, get crappy loots, etc. yay! so i was thinking to myself afterward, "well, that was odd. i've never seen that mob reflect before." but eh, you know how it is. sometimes mobs have inherent chances for weird little things like that. i made a mental note of it and continued on my way.

well, this morning, as i was screwing around in venril's crown harvesting for loams, i came across another odd event. i got too close to one of the solo skeletons and it aggro'd. it started off by casting its snare - the brigand spell snarl - and lo and behold i get "reflected" over my head and the skeleton gets snared by its own spell. so i kill it, then double check my combat log to make sure i wasn't crazy.

sure enough:

sorry for the color, it translates darker than it appears in-game for me. it says: [10:42 AM] an unearthed soldier tries to confound YOU with Snarl, but YOU reflect.

at this point i'm scratcihg my head. i'm by myself, and i've never seen that before on my dirge. so i go looking through all my buffs, gear, AAs... just to make sure i didn't miss anything. carefully read wayfarer's watch (i think that's the name) which gives a 1% chance to avoid some profession abilities (but it says resist or avoid, not reflect).

so my question is, has anyone else seen anything like this? was a mechanic added to give players and mobs an inherent chance to reflect spells? or is this just some rare and random bug that i've stumbled across twice now?

Faxon · 02-01-2008, 01:03 AM

i have been seeing this too from time to time. accidentally reflected my 50% decrease casting speed/small damage DoT (dragonfire) on my raid in PR the other day, was rather interesting hehe. one of the heroic adds on the first name reflected it btw, wasnt the name

Flaeme · 02-02-2008, 05:15 AM

I had this happen once. Chromatic Shower reflected off a raptor in VP, stifling the entire group.. was O_O but it hasn't happened before that or ever since.

kyros · 02-02-2008, 10:35 AM

i kind of understand / expect this from mobs... just to make things harder since people are always whining about the game being too easy, blah, blah.

and then i reflected something? that just doesn't make sense. if it's supposed to be there, that's cool. it just seems like such a small chance that it really has no bearing on the game.

unless we're about to see avatar loot / epics that will increases your chance to reflect spells? i dunno.

yawgmoth · 02-02-2008, 12:58 PM

think spell refects are in game longer. i had spells refected on me in MMIS already

Pinski · 02-02-2008, 01:42 PM

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Originally Posted by yawgmoth

think spell refects are in game longer. i had spells refected on me in MMIS already

Wow, you had spells reflected on you from mobs which place spell reflect buffs on them?