Effect added.
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The paladin ability Cover now raises enmity towards the paladin and lowers enmity towards the party member under attack.
Comment form SE on the effect. Little detail.
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Players:Add an ability that absorbs a party/alliance member’s enmity.
SE: Though it doesn’t absorb enmity directly, Cover has an effect that is very close.
A test on the enmity transfer by foldypaws. Link
Some testing on cover. It appears that every time the PLD takes non-zero damage that would have been aimed at the cover target, a certain amount of enmity is gained by the PLD. Intimidations also appear to count.
Testing on a mandy in La Thiene [A] that I meleed down to 2% without taking any damage or losing any shadows: Libra: Me: 100%, PLD 0%. Cover was activated, PLD took a number of hits for 0 damage due to phalanx/stoneskin, and intimidated the mandy once. After cover wore: Libra: Me: 100%, PLD 6%.
Then, the PLD canceled stoneskin/phalanx and repeated the test, this time taking a number of hits for non-0 damage. Before Cover it was 100% Me 12% PLD (I assume due to volatile enmity decay), after Cover it was Me: 97%, PLD 100%.
At no point did the PLD take any action on or do any damage to the mob.
Testing should still be done to confirm that the cover target *loses* enmity, and not that the PLD just gains it for taking hits, but it seems likely given the description in the update.
My quick and messy seems to contradict Foldypaws'.
Grabbed a bee at HP#1 in Ceizak. Had my mule spam Flash and aspir on it(about all the enmity+ actions I had on WHM). I was mostly winging this, so I didn't track exact enmity values.
On Martel I had Phalanx and SS up. So he never took any damage. Used cover on Ard, and btw the time cover wore, Martel had hate. Martel took no actions but covering ard. Ard's actions should have had more than enough CE to maintain hate regardless of VE decay, so enmity transfer had to have occurred.
And most of the attack from the Bee missed. I suspect that the activation requirement for the enmity transfer is simply intercepting an attack intended for the coveree.
I intend to do more detailed tests later.
-Confirm if enmity transfer occurs on missed hits, as long as the hits are redirected.
-Attempt to quantify the enmity transfer values per hit. % based? Static values? Is VE affected?