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Super Reflexes: Anyone Else Getting "Deflected"

Allstar_Guard

By Allstar_Guard,
Posted on: 2009-07-01 21:12 in Scrappers

 

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wouldnt deflected be ranged attacks and dodges would be aoe/melee?

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Are you telling me you can't dodge a ranged attack?

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Realisticly? No, you can't. If you 'dodged', it means you found cover before the bullet was actually fired. It moves too fast to be dodged after being fired.

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wouldnt deflected be ranged attacks and dodges would be aoe/melee?

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Are you telling me you can't dodge a ranged attack?

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Realisticly? No, you can't. If you 'dodged', it means you found cover before the bullet was actually fired. It moves too fast to be dodged after being fired.

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We ARE Super Heroes, you know.

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I know, and even most superheroes have trouble dodging bullets. Spiderman does it, but he gets early warning. Daredevil has been shown to deflect a bullet with a billy club but that's highly unlikely. Flash has been shown to dodge a bullet, but then it's also taken pains to show that when he's in full speed mode the world slows down for him, and he has to go into lower speeds to do stuff like catch glass in order to protect people. Most super heroes aren't depicted as dodging bullets so much as wearing armor or just plain trying NOT to be in the line of fire to begin with.

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...I don't get the concept of absorbed with MOG and the archmage accolade...

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I'm pretty sure absorb is supposed to represent absorbing enemy fire, or taking the hits but with enough defense that they don't actually DO anything when they hit. In MoG's case it's probably healing the injury away before it has time to register, the accolades are all magicy so you can say they work however you want.

 

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DO you have a resistance power like Tough in your build? You will get Deflected at times if you actually resisted the attack, rather than dodge it.

 

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I always thought it meant when they miss a to-hit check versus accuracy check..

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Accuracy and tohit are mutually exclusive parts of a single formula to determine end the end chance to hit.

I believe it depends on the effects on you at the time. I know that when I pop MoG I get "Absorbed" repeatedly. I'm pretty sure it's a flavor effect that depends on the assumed method of added defense from the power that is on. I'd assume it randomly picks a power on you to draw the effect from if you've got multiple on.

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I think his point was more to describe the fact that you should get the messages when the mob fails to hit you thanks to a power you have running rather than just plain bad "dice roll."

So blah blah even con blah blah 50 percent chance to hit you run power blah so they have only 25% to hit you and now you get the message when they roll between 25-50 and the usual MISS or whatever when it's 50-100. Hope I described that right. IIRC it was flavor added so people would actually notice when buffs were doing things for them.