Talk:Deflect

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New Theory?

From my experience, deflect appears to be an evasion type that is seperate from dodge/parry/block entirely. Attacks that can be dodged/parried/blocked cannot be deflected and vice versa. For instance, the new 51 point protection paladin talent can be deflected, but not dodge/parry/blocked. Additionally, the chance to be deflected seems to be drastically increased if you are using a weapon you have a low skill in. Perhaps the deflect mechanic is for weapon skills that are programmed to behave like spells? Ajonos (talk) 23:59, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

Deflect

Was fighting a ghostly steward in kharazan (near moroes) and "Deflect" whent by on my Scrolling Combat Text was tanking at the time so I didn't get a chance to look through my combat log till after it was gone. Now I'm intrigued...if I had to guess what I deflected I would guess the attack that the stewards do that makes you drunk. But I have no idea. I'm an arms specc warrior was in def stance at the time with a sheild and sword equipped. Sounds like some aditional testing is needed :) Darbad 23:23, 27 March 2007 (EDT)

I also got a deflect, two to be precise. After the first one i came to Wowwiki to see what this new form of mitigation was. I can confirm that i deflected the Drunken Haze attack off the bloodmaul brutemasters in Blades edge. Out of three attempts, i deflected two of them, both of them were deflected with both blade flurry AND evasion going, so either of those moves may have had something to do with it. My rogue is 66, the mobs are 65-66. My guess is it is something blizzard is planning on implementing into the game, and its in here by accident seeing as the only reported spottings of a deflect occur with attacks that make you drunk, which are not like other attacks.

Occurences

In the article, it is mentioned that Deflects do only occur against drunk effects. However, for example some mobs in Hellfire Penninsula can deflect damage for a short period of time. If this statement only considers player deflects, this should be mentioned. --bfx 18:52, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Deflect damage? I think entire attacks/abilities are deflected, a reduction in damage (the stoneskin totem effect or a limited invulnerability potion) would be different. Deflect would roll up on the scrolling combat text and show in the log as well, I'd imagine. It did for me:

I figure it's a deflect because I "resisted" a knockback ability (their charge has a horizontal punt) --WoWWiki-Falos 01:39, 26 April 2008 (UTC)