If that’s the case. Then why is it Reflect and barrier cause 0 damage to be reflected?
If I cast the Reflection of Good weapon onto my first troop. And the AI does skull damage against it. (Which happens right after the cast 90% of the time).
Then zero skull damage is reflected back at the AI due to the barrier.
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Can’t have it both ways.
Incoming damage shouldn’t matter what kind of skull reduction or barrier the troop has. It should be purely based on the attack damage then. If it’s working as intended with Gloom Leaf. Then it’s not working as intended against Barrier.
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I’ve updated the OP. Thanks.
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The dmg isn’t done to the troop; it is done to the barrier. The barrier doesn’t have reflect; the troop does.
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I can’t tell in the first animation who is attacking.
The extra damage is not caused by Gloom leaf’s Thorns?
The hero is attacking and Thorns is reflecting the damage back.
Updated the OP again to include a GIF that shows the actual damage being taken is reflected back as 50%.
Rather than the actual incoming damage.
Oh and that doesn’t make sense because of Dodge Traits.
A troop that has Dodge can still Dodge skull damage and retain it’s barrier. So if the barrier kicks in first before the traits then it wouldn’t be possible to dodge skull damage and have a barrier up at the same time.
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But if you have dodge, you’re not going to sit there and wait for my attack to hit your barrier. You’ll try to dodge it first, and fail, cuz I’m that gud. Then I’ll hit your barrier, which still doesn’t have reflect.
And I’ll mutter to myself, because I should’ve equipped Banishment so I could’ve dispelled both Barrier and Reflect with that 4 match…maybe.
So basically the barrier is granted Dodge but not Reflect. Got it.
This white board makes more sense…
The barrier doesn’t have dodge, the troop doees. But if my attack misses the troop, it won’t hit the barrier, because I missed both. You moved, the barrier followed you, I swung and missed. No glancing blow, no foul tip. It’s not GW Bracket science. I think you’re making it too complicated.
Just don’t ask me to explain why a Guild that scores 0 points only drops 2 brackets, because if I can’t make sense on Barriers, I got no chance with that. Now back to your regularly ‘working as intended’ topic. GL HF
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My bad. According to you the Dodge trait kicks in before barrier. But the Reflect damage trait or status effect kicks in after barrier. But the damage used to take down the barrier isn’t Reflected. Understood.
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Tis Gloomleaf with the issue, not the barrier/reflect - going to make doubly sure here and get back to you next week on it.
The barrier triggers before the reflect effect does thereby negating damage.
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The subject was kinda derailed.
Just want to make sure that the issue I’m raising isn’t so much about barrier. But potential damage compared to actual damage.
I saw Gloomleaf in July just as much then as now and I don’t remember it being an issue.
If it is bugged, which seems highly likely at this point… It’s causing Tower of Doom to be a way more difficult event that originally designed. I feel like any guild that finishes in the top 100 this week should have a little extra reward for their troubles. Considering they are the ones who be plagued by the bug the most.
Gloom leaf already removes all the armor off anyone in the ultimate Doom room from just one cast. So to have 50% of 100 damage to it Reflected back (even when it’s low on health) is basically insta death for any troop without barrier if it already did skull damage to get GL that low on health already.
The troop receiving the damage from reflect will not benefit from having Armored or Spell Armor.
This does not mean Armored/Spell Armor troops will reflect full damage.
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I just wish we had better documentation of:
- The order in which effects are applied.
- The intended behavior of how effects interact.
It sounds daunting, but so is navigating one of these threads every couple of months when someone can’t sort out how some complicated interactions are supposed to behave.
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My Titan with Mang had barrier up, and simultaneously matched Brown and skulls. He did not have barrier after. I’m still waiting for the next opportunity to match both simultaneously without barrier to see if I suicide or the Brown gives barrier before the reflect dmg hits.
But then Doomskulls that hit adjacent skulls have those single points counted as separate dmg to be reflected…
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Any news on this 2 month old bug report?
@Kafka
A guild member just asked about Reflect skull damage trait and reduced skull damage traits interaction. I wasn’t confident about what to tell them since there wasn’t a resolution with this report.
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Not yet sorry, I’ve asked the team to prioritise Guild War and other issues at the moment.
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