Does air shield protect against seeking arrow?

vfb · #1 February 10th, 2009, 06:34 PM

That's right. There was a thread on Seeking Arrow a while back, and I think the result was that if your commander was targeted by a seeking arrow, only the following item (including shroud bless) effects would have a chance at helping him survive:
- Air Shield
- Luck
- Twist Fate

I'm not sure if the following help:
- Ritual of Returning (so he only gets hit by one arrow out of a Seeking Arrow barrage)
- Elixer of Life/Crystal Heart
- Twiceborn
- Immortality

The global Perpetual Storm also blows seeking arrows off course I think.

analytic_kernel · #2 February 10th, 2009, 07:13 PM

As supporting evidence, one of the strings in the executable seems to be a message for the blown-off-course outcome. (There's also a typo in said string.)

Code:

#strings dom3_amd64 | grep course
Mighty storms blew the arrow of course and it was not able to find any target.
Suddenly an arrow appeared out of the sky and headed straight for %s's heart. But %s's magical missile protection knocked the arrow from its course and %s got away without a scratch.

lch · #3 February 11th, 2009, 07:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vfb

That's right. There was a thread on Seeking Arrow a while back, and I think the result was that if your commander was targeted by a seeking arrow, only the following item (including shroud bless) effects would have a chance at helping him survive:
- Air Shield
- Luck
- Twist Fate

Didn't check, but AFAIK Ethereality helps, too.