Superbolide having a small window where you actually die before being "invulnerable"

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All of the tank "invulnerability" abilities have a delay before they take effect. Are you sure you aren't just pressing the button too late?

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Originally Posted by Mholito

All of the tank "invulnerability" abilities have a delay before they take effect. Are you sure you aren't just pressing the button too late?

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I don't play a GBR so I don't know for certain, but I've heard that Superbollide drops you to 1hp *then* makes you invulnerable, so there's a very small window where if you get hit by literally anything you die, regardless of what your hp was before using it. If true, that's some real messed up ordering.

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Originally Posted by Mholito

All of the tank "invulnerability" abilities have a delay before they take effect. Are you sure you aren't just pressing the button too late?

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No, I'm not even using any Macros. You can try it out with FULL hp aswell, died plenty of times there using superbolide. Never had problems with Warrior, Paladin or Dark Knight. obviously. Think Superbolide's calculation / Order is just out of place. Should be invulnerable first and then drop the HP to 1.

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Originally Posted by Lodorion

No, I'm not even using any Macros. You can try it out with FULL hp aswell, died plenty of times there using superbolide. Never had problems with Warrior, Paladin or Dark Knight. obviously. Think Superbolide's calculation / Order is just out of place. Should be invulnerable first and then drop the HP to 1.

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The delay has nothing to do with macros. All the invulns have about half a second of delay between activating the skill, and getting the buff.

I am inclined to doubt this issue due to the low amount of people talking about it happening to themselves. Most of the widespread knowledge of this issue comes from secondhand sources. Since there have been so few people who have actually experienced it, it would not surprise me in the slightest if it was simply lack of understanding of the delayed effect.

However, if it is as you say, and this can happen at full health without taking lethal damage, there might be something to it afterall.

Just want SE to look into it and whether confirm or decline they see / do not see a problem. Can try to record it for further evidence. Would have to setup record prog again tho