Addendum to "Turn 4 Clockwork Knights reflecting Flash"

[Kenji1134]

Original accepted post:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...flecting-Flash

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These screenshots were taken over the course of 5 seconds, clearly showing that I am taking damage from Flash, every time I use Flash. This does not seem right.

[Renala]

They counter magic when in melee. Flash is counted as magic.

[Kenji1134]

Yup. But... why?
Flash does no damage, though I believe the enmity value is calculated "like" a damaging attack. But... none of GLA/PLD's natural abilities scale with INT or MND, so why is Flash alone being considered magic, when its more of an invisible, non-damaging aoe weaponskill?

The main issue here is that it feels like an unnecessary catch-22 for a PLD tanking this part.
If I Flash, I take a good chunk of extra damage, so the healers has to heal my more, and I need to Flash more to generate hate on both mobs to keep them off the healer, who's spamhealing me more because I am killing myself with Flash...
Or I could not use Flash and keep rotating RoH combos between the 2 mobs... yet whenever I do that, BOTH of the ST dps who are individually burning the mobs will pull off me...

Granted, I've been successfully tanking T4 for 3 weeks now, so this is not gamebreaking by any means... But it does feel like a bug.

[Furlamseere]

Greetings,

I have attached the additional images you have provided for your "Turn 4 Clockwork Knights reflecting Flash". I cannot guarantee that a direct response will be posted on this thread, but I do recommend checking Here or Here for any details regarding the development team's investigation.