Deflect(ion)

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Ramgan

Dalayan Beginner
As I started running out of interesting AAs to purchase, I decided to pick up Deflect. After all, it cost only a couple of AAs and it sounded like a decent emergency click.

For those who don't know, the AA is a small radius PBAoE Greater Concussion (-1,000 hate, unresistable, as with many AAs) usable every 8 minutes, with a small knockback thrown in. Basically, it's an emergency click for when you accidentally pull aggro and may not have time to cast the spell itself.

First, I'd like to say that the effect, with the knockback and all, does look pretty nice when used properly. The mobs are thrown back a short ways with shiny red particle effects and start beating on other people. The knockback, however, is something of a problem. Many raid zones, especially the planes, disallow any sort of knockback. As has been mentioned before, this causes Deflect to not function at all in the zone.

Unless this is an intended limitation on the spell, which could be possible, I, for one, would gladly trade this admittedly cool knockback for the option to use it in more zones. Would this be feasible or is it, as speculated, an intentional limitation?
 
The knockback prohibition doesn't really have very much to do with anything other than zone geography; I really doubt it's an intended nerf to the concussion. Moreover, it's definitely possible to remove the kb. Whether that means it'll be changed, on the other hand, I couldn't say.
 
Removing the KB would be a great help with this AA. Besides the planes/prison, Deflection also will not work in xp zones like EC, FR, Rust and a bunchofplacesicantremember.

Think it does actually work in Thaz tho.

I would love to see deflection working regardless of zone.
 
Deflection was an AA I got a long long time ago. When I first got it, I ranked it as one of the best AA abilities, was top 2 I believe. At the time it was so useful, I mainly grinded in normal ol' exp zones, like elds.

It was an incredibly useful AA and was always on my main hotbar. However, after being to many zones after time I have found that this AA simply can't be used most of the time. The effect as well as the knockback are great where you can use the ability, but realistically if the AA were somehow changed to allow it to be used more often, it would actually be worth using post-elds.

This isn't a complete knock on the AA, it was great for a while, but more and more zones prohibit its use.
 
I think this is similar to "Festering Curse" which was limited by the Snare and this got removed too - I'd say we should be able to use Deflect the same way.
 
I'm actually changing zones that disallow KB to only disallow it being cast on players. Zones that forbid KB/flux only do so to prevent players from skipping content and going to unreachable locations.
 
Wiz said:
I'm actually changing zones that disallow KB to only disallow it being cast on players. Zones that forbid KB/flux only do so to prevent players from skipping content and going to unreachable locations.
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gosh wiz. now to skip content i'll have to make a necro get huge hate on a mob that summons, KB it, DA myself, make the necro get summoned, FD, and rez us up. This is highly inconvenient.
 
Are you being silly or fishing for a ban? I'm not sure which, tbh. :hmph:
 
Wiz said:
I'm actually changing zones that disallow KB to only disallow it being cast on players. Zones that forbid KB/flux only do so to prevent players from skipping content and going to unreachable locations.
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To clarify, you're only stopping players from casting KB on players, right? Mobs can still do it?
 
Aaubert said:
gosh wiz. now to skip content i'll have to make a necro get huge hate on a mob that summons, KB it, DA myself, make the necro get summoned, FD, and rez us up. This is highly inconvenient.
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To respond seriously, there is no way I can prevent every form of content skipping, so things like this are just bannable instead.
 
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