Mage Shield Question (in General)

My Mage Shield seems to be only protectiong against FB.
The meta-stats description lists it as 'Protects against Direct Damage'

If so, why does it let MM and CoC do unrestricted damage?
I've tried this against MM only mages and I get no protection at all.

Anyone else have this?

It's defo been protecting people against my CoC.....

...Darby Crash takes damage from his own Cone of cold (3835)! Darby Crash's Cone of cold hit Hugo Rune [12682], Tuppe [10045], Cornelius [16799] First round of any DD, Tuppe has a +21 MgS I don't understand...

I had to drop an opponent from my favorites list because he'd equipped a mage shield and it was blocking a large portion of my CoC spell.

Maybe a glitch where MM is concerned? Or something Jon hasn't told us about?

From a battle with a MM only char ------------------------------ Ranged Combat Cost Like 3 Mil takes damage from his own Magic missile (4973)! Cost Like 3 Mil's Magic missile hit Hugo Rune [9030] Cost Like 3 Mil cries "BIFF! BIFF! BOOM!!" And Do Squat takes damage from his own Magic missile (5226)! And Do Squat's Magic missile hit Tuppe [6093] R.I.P. Hugo Rune Cost Like 3 Mil takes damage from his own Magic missile (5594)! Cost Like 3 Mil's Magic missile hit Tuppe [7541] And Do Squat takes damage from his own Magic missile (5879)! And Do Squat's Magic missile hit Tuppe [7837] R.I.P. 2 MCMs -------------- No protection against MM either

It definitely protects against MM.

Sorry about the formatting

It seemed to wrok (at least a little) versus my CoC;

My Cone of cold hit Hugo Rune [19760], You [7826], Cornelius [11329]


Me takes damage from his own Cone of cold (3688)!
My Cone of cold hit You [12214], Cornelius [27911]

Me takes damage from his own Cone of cold (3688)!
My Cone of cold hit You [49451]

(Names changed to protect the spellchecker)

Your MgS seemed to take about 15K off of my CoC. A +21 should be taking 42K shouldn't it?

I would have thought so.

I just took off my cbf, and I found that I was even getting damage from first round Fireball!!!!!!

Look:
His takes damage from his own Fireball (1904)!
His Fireball hit Hugo Rune [9974], Tuppe [4963], Cornelius [6844]

R.I.P. Hugo Rune

He takes damage from his own Fireball (2176)!
His Fireball hit Tuppe [8357], Cornelius [11037]

He takes damage from his own Fireball (2448)!
His Fireball hit Tuppe [11581], Cornelius [15863]



Is there a penalty that I am unaware of with my MgS placing???

Ah.

Is it that 40% capping that Jon was talking about?

Doh! Forgot that... That would make sense...

I just smacked around another +21 MgS.

Two minion team. My CoC usually does around 100K to a single target. I did;

1: 17609 (+21 MgS)
2: 44034

Here the MgS stopped around 26K of damage a little over average for "up to 2K absorb per point". With the 40% cap, if max absorb was rolled (42K) the MgS would only stop a max of 40K damage from my attack.

:)

Unless the 40% cap takes damage splits over minions into account.

In which case the above minion would only take around 20K max from my CoC (with two minions alive...) I hope it works this way!!! It would royaly suck if the MgS cap was figured out from your total damage before it's spread over multiple minions...

Also, you had hit me with a 0.25 AMF in my attack versus you above.

:)

Thanks for helping me get my idiot head around all that.

I guess it's all about keeping your tank alive just that little bit longer

You all do realize that DD damage is quite random, so it's pointless to draw conclusions from just 1 battle?

I only posted one or two battles.
That doesn't mean I only tried one or two battles.