Arthur! Monkey Outta Nowhere!

vfb · #1 February 19th, 2008, 03:31 AM

Excluding level-8 items:

50% protection (luck): Faithful, Lucky Coin, Pendant of Luck

80% protection (air shield): Shield of Valor, Robe of Missile Protection, Silver Hauberk, Amulet of Missile Protection

100% protection from 1 arrow (twist fate): Shroud, with S9/S10 god

20-80% protection (air shield): Shroud, with A4-A10 god

Other armor, shields, or items do not help, because the arrow is Armor Negating.

Artifacts or other means of getting the (luck/air shield/twist fate) attributes will provide protection as above.

Sir_Dr_D · #2 February 19th, 2008, 10:37 PM

The best defense it to really just get indy commanders in the same provibce as valueble targets. Pepole really only use this spell against either lone, or low hitpoint targets valuable targets. It won't be worth casting if there is a larger group of disposbale commanders in the provice. That is also a good defense against assasination.

lch · #3 February 20th, 2008, 07:21 AM

The best defense is a Robe of Shadows. If I recall correctly then the spell does no damage at all to ethereal commanders. Good air magic can prevent from landing a hit, too, I think.

vfb · #4 February 20th, 2008, 07:42 AM

Not at all. There was another thread talking about this at about the same time:

http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...?Number=581736

A robe of shadows did nothing, the seeking arrow is magic damage. I didn't try with air magic on the target, but I don't see how that could help, since it's not like you get an MR roll to resist.

lch · #5 February 20th, 2008, 07:51 AM

Hmm. When I was sieging Arco in our game, all air queens gulped down the seeking arrows without any damage. Maybe they have special rules, the flavor text from the message made it sound like it was due to their etherealness. Or maybe I am confusing this with the Wind Rides that were fired along with them. But my eagle kings were mostly unscathed, too. Maybe they were wearing amulets of luck, I had some of them with it.

vfb · #6 February 20th, 2008, 08:34 AM

I just tested this. Thuella got the "managed to escape her deadly fate" message. Never got the message for Aella, she gets hit every time. Thuella got hit sometimes. Nephele also escaped her fate sometimes. But it's less than 50% protection. More like 20%.

Mystery!

Okay, I tried with an Arch-Devil. He "managed to escape his fate" too! (On the fifth arrow.) Maybe flight gives partial protection from seeking arrow?

Micah · #7 February 20th, 2008, 08:53 AM

Remember there's about a 6% chance that the protection DRN will exceed the damage from the 8AN arrow as well, so an odd miss or two could just be indicative of some lucky dice.