Tired of benediction fail

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Monster winds up an attack.
Activate damage reduction ability before cast time finishes, ability goes on cooldown.
Monster finishes cast.
Monster begins actual attack animation.
Damage reduction effect kicks in due to animation time.
Monster finishes attack animation.
You take damage as if your damage reduction ability never took effect.

This applies to heals, too, which leads to ridiculous combat log texts.

You recovered 6000 health.
You took 3000 damage.
You are defeated.

It's just the way this game is programmed, unfortunately (and has nothing whatsoever to do with latency). They would have to completely redo the combat code to fix it.

I agree

I start casting stoneskin.
twintania starts casting death sentence
Stoneskin applys to tank and shows on his buff list
1.5 seconds later death sentence finshes casting and does damage
Stoneskin absorbs none of death sentence and stays on the tank to absorb the next attack


Any whm who uses stoneskin much in combat can probably relate to this, This games combat is a mess. I dont know if its latency or coding, probably a bit of both, but it effects everything. its not "Intended" with benediction as it effects every other ability the same way. Benediction has a long animation so it compounds the issue same as paladin invincible. Scholar lustrates animation is much shorter so it has a much higher chance of saving the tank but it still suffers the same issues just like everything else in the game.