Emperor's Ward / Warped Flesh worth it?

[Zealote]

Yeah I did see that thread actually, but find it a bit confusing. Are you saying that absorbs took armour/resists into account on AoR?

Mitigation by toughness is calculated first, then absorb is applied. Mitigation by armor/resists is applied to any remaining damage.

I understand that to mean that absorbs should only take toughness into account (which is how I thought it worked, but could be wrong). Then after absorbing the max dmg possible, if there's any left, armour/resists are applied.

[bloodi]

I cant say on what drugs is footpatrol2 high on today.

I am merely linking how it works last time it was tested.

[Zealote]

Ah well that's what I'm asking, for confirmation of how it currently works (i.e. whether footpatrol2 is correct), as I can't get in-game to test it myself atm.

But thanks for the link.

[Luicetarro]

The only thing that you will benefit from is, that some skills will fail to work, if you're lucky enough to have EW active. If a skill doesn't deal damage, it's effect will fail as well.
So a blocked punt, knockdown, etc. will fail if if does hit EW.

Noticed that stuff as I was catched off guard while farming. EW was active, due to mobs hitting me and skills of my enemy failed quite a lot.

But the benefits are by far too low to be a valid option in high-tier PvP.

[Zealote]

If a skill doesn't deal damage, it's effect will fail as well.

That's true if you avoid an attack (block/parry/dodge/disrupt), but I'm pretty sure it shouldn't work that way with absorbs. Are you saying that's how it's currently implemented?

[Gachimuchi]

The only thing that you will benefit from is, that some skills will fail to work, if you're lucky enough to have EW active. If a skill doesn't deal damage, it's effect will fail as well.
So a blocked punt, knockdown, etc. will fail if if does hit EW.

wrong