Magic Defense/Evasion

[Sutiban]

The Magic Defense and Magic Evasion gear doesn't work as intended. I just took an abnormal Self-Destruct for more hit points than I had while in Dynamis and cut my farming short. I have:

Magic Defense: +9
Magic Evasion: 173

The Nightmare cluster I was fighting was EP and only 1 of the clusters in the monster blew up. You would think that would mean 1/3 of the damage but no, it was higher than my hitpoint total so even if I was at 100% HP, I would've died. I was also over 50 yalms away when it finally blew up so you would think I was far away from the monster so that would also decrease the damage taken. Come on Devs, you put something in the game that isn't working and needs looked at. The damage from self-destruct needs changed so the further you are from the center of the explosion, the less damage you take. It should also be the same thing for Bomb-toss.

[Ophannus]

Self-Destruct is breath damage not magic damage. It ignores Magic Defense. Almost every type of attack that deals damage based on HP is breath(Spirits Within/Flying Hip Press etc). Dynamis mobs have high magic accuracy as they were meant to fight alliance/parties not solo players, due tot his, even though they are "Easy Prey", they were designed towards many people fighting them. That being said they probably have very high magic accuracy, or you got unlucky(even with high m.evasion, your chance of fully resisting is not 100%. Also stop using third-party tools to run 50' away from a bomb using Self-Destruct. It would never have attempted to ready a TP move other than Refueling unless you were within range and happen to flee away within 2.5seconds(impossible to run 50' away in 2.5seconds even at THF Flee Speed.)

[Malthar]

Maybe he was on bst and his pet was fighting it? Stop accusing people because you use these same tools yourself.

I remember when I was leveling bst the old school way and running from self destruct only to be caught anyway. I don't remember if I was >50 yalms, but I know I should have been far enough away, but still died.