Talk:Mark of Protection

I disagree with the Build suggestion on this one. Because this skill is usually used by Healing monks with little or no points in protection prayers. That's because after you use this all your other protection skills became useless for 10 seconds, so it is more usefull to use little or no other protection skills with this elite and there are little or no downsides to this, because the healing effect is really not the point of this, it's that this skill will make player immune to damage for 10s and that effect is not linked to any attribute. --Geeman 01:02, 31 Aug 2005 (EST)


 * Reversal and MoP don't make you invulnerable. They both reverse only up to their stated damage.  With high protection, it's almost invulnerability.  A hit that's hard enough can still hurt or things that make you "lose" health go through  everything (I believe; I know they go through protective spirit).  With zero protection, MoP reverses only 6 damage, so if you get hit for less than 12, you get healed.  If you get hit for 12, it's negated.  If you get hit for more than twelve, you take that damage less twelve, effectively.  But, the range is relatively wide so the effect grows quickly.  --Fyren 01:49, 31 Aug 2005 (EST)


 * I'm not sure that is true, Fyren, with regards to MoP. I've seen mobs take 1 damage whilst this skill has been active, but never any more. This leads me to believe that it negates all damage (apart from some rounding error generated 1 dam point) and give you back a portion of it as HP. 148.177.129.213 20:14, 11 Oct 2005 (EST)


 * I'm certain that's how reversal and MoP work. The only explanation I can offer for always hitting for one is you were always hitting for the same damage or you weren't paying enough attention.  --Fyren 20:56, 11 Oct 2005 (EST)


 * That would imply that, as a mesmer using 12 Fire attrib. I was never doing more than (49x2=)98 damage. And that I was therefore consistently doing 99 damage. Does that sound very likely? I was also using Backfire worth 119 damage. *shrug* It isn't worth arguing about, I'm just stating what I've experienced. 148.177.129.213 21:42, 11 Oct 2005 (EST)