Unusual Attack

So I am usually pretty good at understanding the game mechanics, but something happened while playing today that I am baffled by.  I'm wondering if I came across a rare bug or if there is something about the mechanics that made this possible...

Was fighting in destard today and a normal (not paragon) shadow wyrm hit me for 120 damage with a single melee attack.  Character is an human archer in wraith form with all 70s resist, holding a dragon slayer bow and wearing a fey talisman.  Was not using EoO, but was under the effect of all 4 bard songs.  With bard songs I have 148 hp.  I saw the damage number come up and my life did drop down to under 30 hp, so I didn't just misread the damage number.

Any thoughts?

Edit: both bards are 4x legendary with real skill, so the 120 damage was after the 30% damage reduction, which would indicate an attack of 171.

I also noticed something simila yesterday. Shadow wyrms 1hit dropping me from 150 to 30's.. .and the beasts are now almost unhittable!  pfff

Yoshi said:

"blood oath

it reflects the damage that you deal to it, and you probably deal a lot of damage with dragon slayer + AI

Pinco's UI has a built in script hack to prevent it"

I thought about blood oath, its about the only thing that makes sense... but I never remember seeing the damage numbers pop up like that for blood oath.  Maybe I've always just missed it?

As a mage, Para Shadow Wyrms target me the second I enter the dungeon.  Maybe, they do other types too.  Agree could have been blood oath believe first time a regular Shadow Wyrm cast it on me with my dragon slayer in hand I took 180 damage.  Know better than to cast when I see that now.

Have not noticed any other spells that hit for over 100 but at the door especially you can ger killed quite quickly.  Was dead within 5 seconds of entering last night.  Paras shadow wyrms and dragons seemed souped up last night.

Luckily they are dumber than the skeletal things in Fire that did blood oath.  The shadows do not do it as soon as you hit them.  And they die pretty fast so it is not the most common way I die there.

Getting hit with Blood Oath is definitely a curse. I used Word of Death on Scalis once without noticing he had me under Blood Oath and I got hit with 700 damage points as a result.

Merus said:

So I am usually pretty good at understanding the game mechanics, but something happened while playing today that I am baffled by.  I'm wondering if I came across a rare bug or if there is something about the mechanics that made this possible...

Was fighting in destard today and a normal (not paragon) shadow wyrm hit me for 120 damage with a single melee attack.  Character is an human archer in wraith form with all 70s resist, holding a dragon slayer bow and wearing a fey talisman.  Was not using EoO, but was under the effect of all 4 bard songs.  With bard songs I have 148 hp.  I saw the damage number come up and my life did drop down to under 30 hp, so I didn't just misread the damage number.

Any thoughts?

Edit: both bards are 4x legendary with real skill, so the 120 damage was after the 30% damage reduction, which would indicate an attack of 171.

This is what we have been talking about. I thought we just mentioned in other threads about "touching" and dying within 3 to 4 seconds. I was trying to be conservative because 150 to 30 is indeed  possible within 2 secs and if we don't run in another 2 secs it may mean another death.

Seth said:

Merus said:

So I am usually pretty good at understanding the game mechanics, but something happened while playing today that I am baffled by.  I'm wondering if I came across a rare bug or if there is something about the mechanics that made this possible...

Was fighting in destard today and a normal (not paragon) shadow wyrm hit me for 120 damage with a single melee attack.  Character is an human archer in wraith form with all 70s resist, holding a dragon slayer bow and wearing a fey talisman.  Was not using EoO, but was under the effect of all 4 bard songs.  With bard songs I have 148 hp.  I saw the damage number come up and my life did drop down to under 30 hp, so I didn't just misread the damage number.

Any thoughts?

Edit: both bards are 4x legendary with real skill, so the 120 damage was after the 30% damage reduction, which would indicate an attack of 171.

This is what we have been talking about. I thought we just mentioned in other threads about "touching" and dying within 3 to 4 seconds. I was trying to be conservative because 150 to 30 is indeed  possible within 2 secs and if we don't run in another 2 secs it may mean another death.

I normally have no issue with regular shadow wyrms, they die easy.  Even the paragon’s aren’t too bad… but a single attack from a normal shadow wyrm for 120 damage while under the 30% damage reduction is something I haven’t see before.  The part that’s throwing me off was seeing the damage number come off my character… I don’t remember seeing that from blood oath before, but it’s really the only thing that makes sense.  It seems unusual that with all the fighting I’ve done in Destard this event (probably around 1500 drops) this is the first time I’ve been hit with blood oath, but it’s possible.

Merus said:

I normally have no issue with regular shadow wyrms, they die easy.  Even the paragon’s aren’t too bad…

Merus said:

Seth said:

Merus said:

So I am usually pretty good at understanding the game mechanics, but something happened while playing today that I am baffled by.  I'm wondering if I came across a rare bug or if there is something about the mechanics that made this possible...

Was fighting in destard today and a normal (not paragon) shadow wyrm hit me for 120 damage with a single melee attack.  Character is an human archer in wraith form with all 70s resist, holding a dragon slayer bow and wearing a fey talisman.  Was not using EoO, but was under the effect of all 4 bard songs.  With bard songs I have 148 hp.  I saw the damage number come up and my life did drop down to under 30 hp, so I didn't just misread the damage number.

Any thoughts?

Edit: both bards are 4x legendary with real skill, so the 120 damage was after the 30% damage reduction, which would indicate an attack of 171.

This is what we have been talking about. I thought we just mentioned in other threads about "touching" and dying within 3 to 4 seconds. I was trying to be conservative because 150 to 30 is indeed  possible within 2 secs and if we don't run in another 2 secs it may mean another death.

I normally have no issue with regular shadow wyrms, they die easy.  Even the paragon’s aren’t too bad… but a single attack from a normal shadow wyrm for 120 damage while under the 30% damage reduction is something I haven’t see before.  The part that’s throwing me off was seeing the damage number come off my character… I don’t remember seeing that from blood oath before, but it’s really the only thing that makes sense.  It seems unusual that with all the fighting I’ve done in Destard this event (probably around 1500 drops) this is the first time I’ve been hit with blood oath, but it’s possible.

They do not do it as often as the skeletons in fire did.  Luckily.  I have been hit twice that I recall.  First time died. Next time I luckily was able to hop back before hitting it.

“Just apple when blood oathed, or disarm self of press tab to stop attack. Or like I said Pinco’s UI will play the game for you and it’s automatic tab to stop attack when blood oathed. 

Speaking of unusual:

I was playing then came here.  I can not attack these Water Eles with spells and as you see my Triton is not hitting them either.  Is it pacifist hour or what?

I moved here and same thing, I can't attack this drake and my pet does no damage...


I logged off and on,  I cant attack anything.  

Have had similar things happening to me,  Did not want to say anything because I thought it was just my account.  Might be the result of lag.  You are ahead of where the game is or something like that.