User talk:Xemnas

Sliver Armor
You added a note to the Sliver Armor about it targeting the "adjacent foe with the highest armor". How did you learn this? --Shadowcrest 19:58, 23 October 2007 (UTC)


 * I learned this because I farm bosses with it and it always targets them, and if I have more than one enemy type near me it targets the melee ones as opposed to the spellcasters. --Xemnas 22:52, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Perhaps the melee people are closer? I'll try shadow stepping next to a caster, I'll post again in a minute. --Shadowcrest 22:54, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Just went out and tried on a group of Heket. I Death's Charged in next to a Blood Cowl Heket, it (sliver armor) started hitting him until 2 warriors came in. It switched to the warriors, killed them, then switched back to the Blood Cowl (necro, 60 AL) and killed him while 2 Beast Sworn Heket (rangers, 70 AL +the 30 vs elemental damage) stood there and tried to hit me with their axes, along with their level 15 pets. So, while actually a good theory (I thought it just might be true for a minute), it appears to be incorrect this time.--Shadowcrest 23:03, 23 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Sliver Armor targets the closest thing to you or the thing with the highest armor (in that order of priority), which would always be melees because they run as far into you as possible before attacking (which would be all the way pushed up against you) and they GENERALLY have higher AL and you can't get any closer than that to any spellcaster anyway because you can't just run inside of them (unless you shadow step which would put you there). So naturally it targets the closest thing with the highest AL which is melees which will follow you to the spellcaster and get as close to you as you are to it. It's all very confusing but heres the deal:
 * 1) Sliver Armor will target a spellcaster while the melees are still a good distance away (and even then it may retarget the melee when it gets in range).
 * 2) Sliver Armor will usually target the person you shadow step to.
 * 3) Sliver Armor always targets bosses unless they have lower AL than enemies around them (unlikely).
 * 4) Sliver Armor will target the closest enemy or the first person to get in range if all the available foes have the same AL.
 * 5) Sliver Armor will keep targeting the enemy it is engaged in until it dies or SOMETIMES it will retarget to another foe but only just when it comes into range.
 * Is that a good explanation? [I had an edit error when trying to submit this--you posted your comment while I was typing mine so I had to copy/paste my thing from the previous page and other confusing things] :) --Xemnas 23:18, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
 * What about bosses like Ssuns, Blessed of Dwayna, Hajkor, Mystic Flame, and Chkkr Locust Lord? I highly doubt they have less armor than the casters or even the warriors/assassins near them, however my Sliver Armor rarely targets Ssuns or Chkkr, and about 60% of the time it hits Hajkor. If it doesn't go for Hajkor it kills the Margonite Reapers and the Executioners, and then if it doesn't hit Hajkor after they die it hits a Ruby Djinn (usually). I always shadow step to the boss. And while farming Eshim Mindclouder, I tried running up to a Whistling Thornbrush (or something like that, its a paragon) and though I was closer to the Thornbrush it targeted a Mirage Iboga. Any ideas? --Shadowcrest 20:33, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
 * In Guild Wars, there is an exception to every rule. Maybe with some enemy types the armor doesn't follow the spellcaster < melee rule. And also, in many high level areas the enemies may well have more armor than the boss, or at least equal. And, Sliver Armor has a higher chance of targeting an enemy if you target it yourself and often, if your SA's target dies, it will switch to your current target even though the chances are stacked against it. Sliver Armor is one of the most mysterious and unexplainable skills in Guild Wars and, without explainations from the Designers, will most likely remain that way forever, --Xemnas 00:12, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I've seen it target regular warriors over a ranger boss. Often. --Macros 00:28, 25 October 2007 (UTC)