New bug discovered today thanks to Darxide: any time you both have Backlash and Rock Hard at the same time, Rock Hard won’t ever absorb any damage and only redirects from Backlash would happen (alongside 50% damage reduction from Backlash), even if Rock Hard’s shield is bigger than Backlash’s.
The logs would display both redirects and absorbs when absorbs don’t actually happen. In the screenshot below, you can notice damage in red, and an absorb at the same time, which isn’t normal.
If the B shield is bigger (can happen if it crits, happens to me since maxed crit power), the RH shield displays the same value in the logs than what B gives, which should be a lie since RH’s shield is always a static amount.
In the 2nd screenshot, you can notice RH being equal to 41043, which doesn’t make sense since its maximum is 39322 (from the 1st screenshot).
Rock Hard starts working again properly if Backlash fades before Rock Hard (it absorbs damage properly).
There might be multiple bugs here, both in the logs and in the mechanics.
This is how things should work:
- No absorbs in the logs if they actually don’t happen.
- Display the correct value in the logs for Rock Hard even if a higher shield is already present (like a crit Backlash). This should translate into Rock Hard giving 39322 in the 2nd screenshot.
- A higher shield should always overwrite a lower one, however since Backlash’s shield has additional effects, i’m not sure how things should be intended here. For now, Backlash keeps having priority over Rock Hard. It seems that both shields coexist, which also makes sense since Backlash isn’t an absorb shield but a redirect shield. Since no overwriting happens here because the nature of both shields is different, then both shield should work (Rock Hard should absorb the remaining damage incoming through Backlash).
PS: If you stick to the rotations explained in the guide, these problems shouldn’t happen to you.