Eye for an eye

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Originally Posted by peaches

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Pretty much this. If you've played MMOs like WoW before, you'll be familiar with cooldown rotations. Some bosses have abilities that hit like a truck that either greatly benefit from or simply require a cooldown. If you properly rotate abilities such as EfaE, Virus and Sacred Soil, you can greatly decrease the throughput of these attacks. A perfect example in this game is, as stated above, Mountain Buster (aka table flip) or Death Sentence.

Also, a note on Death Sentence. While Death Sentence is counted as magical damage (ie a WHM Virus will not lower its damage), Virus will still help greatly on the auto-attacks and plummets to come, giving you more time to be able to top off the tank through Infirmity.

I leveled ACN to 34 just to get I4I for my WHM to use. :D
Thanks to OP for explaining what it does.

it's better than i thought. i guess tooltip fail wins again.

i think eye for an eye is great... when it's actually applied to the boss

when it doesn't i get upset

Swiftcast, stoneskin, eye for eye, virus. Need I say more.

Mind = Blown

Dang it, I don't wanna level up another class :(

I need some rare candies.

I was guilty of misunderstanding the tooltip myself.

At a quick glance since it was a buff put on the tank I just assumed it lowered the damage done to him by 10% if it proc'd, not that it actually debuffed the enemy that triggered it.

Thankfully I learned my lesson awhile back, but I approve of spreading the word so more people know it's actually a great ability.

What kind of pot have these people been smoking to think that Eye for an Eye is a bad skill. That skill has saved so many butts in a lot of my runs. To me, it's one of the best things a Scholar (Or any class I suppose) can get for reducing damage.

Dayum... I just realized that too... Ok gotta level my arcanist straight away. Good thing I checked this thread out.

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Originally Posted by Hulan

You numbers are actually off.

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Which is 89% for ad = 3. I'm going entirely off of memory, but I suspect most hard hitting enemies actually have an ad closer to 3.5 (which, due to the exponential nature of the function is still 89%).

Now, granted, monsters that attack less then every 2 seconds get fairly close to a 97% chance, but those are pretty rare.

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Ok you got me there. It´s not 90-97% but 89-97%. Guess I´m one of those spreading missinformation about that skill either. :)

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Originally Posted by Alu79

What exactly is the misinformation being spread tho? I.

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This vvv Read it multiple times in multiple threads.

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Originally Posted by Sinaloa

This does not mean that an average of one in five hits deal 10% less damage.

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