Eye for an eye

[Zaft]

snip

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.

[Crafter]

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

[Zoeila]

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

[hamsteak]

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

when it doesn't i get upset

[JackieChan]

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

[Silverkin]

Mind = Blown

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

I need some rare candies.

[Xikaz]

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.

[Cluebilly]

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.

[faerieflare]

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

[Sinaloa]

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.

What exactly is the misinformation being spread tho? I.

This vvv Read it multiple times in multiple threads.

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