Monster Spiral Pierce

Originally posted by [b]Perceval[/b]
http://www.eathena.ws/board/index.php?autocom=bugtracker&showbug=1659

2 Things:

1.) kRO has changed the behavior of Spiral Pierce when casted by Monsters. It's always considered to be ranged now, independant from the distance between the player and monster. Which means, a Crusader's Defending Aura should reduce the damage by 80% even when directly tanking it, Pneuma should completely block the attack, Blinding Mist should apply the damage reduction and so on.



2.) I heard it many times: "Ghostring doesn't work in PVM". However, it seems that the Ghostring card is supposed to apply reductions when used in PVM against certain monster skills that are forced neutral. In the newest video of Doddler about killing Beelzebub by tanking it, he mentions that he was using a Ghostring card to reduce Beelzebub's Spiral pierce damage. It's noticable in the video that his Lord Knight was taking a very small amount of damage when tanking the Spiral Pierce (he didn't have devo at some part of the video).

Source: http://rojournal.doddlercon.com

Also please read through some comments in his Journey Blog where his Teammate Lupus refers to the usage of Ghostring armor against Beelzebub's Spiral Pierce.

http://rojournal.doddlercon.com/comments.php?id=71

To sum it up, some investigations should be done regarding the status of Ghostring armor, because currently in eA, it ony reduces Earthquake Damage.

Thanks for your time and keep up the good work.