The Maelstrom upgrade for GA, 'Absorb' also eats allied projectiles as well as enemies

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  • Describe the issue you are experiencing:

The greataxe ability maelstrom can eat projectiles with its upgrade absorb, however it also eats allied projectiles.

  • Is this a bug or an exploit: bug

  • (if a bug) How did the issue effect your gameplay: eating big allied CDs is self sabotaging and can be used to grief.

  • (if a bug) Were you able to recover from the issue: not really lol

  • What are the steps to reproduce the issue as you experienced: used a maelstrom with absorb, shoot a gravity well at it as an ally

Is the fact allies (particularly in wars) can eat it, is terrible

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This issue has been in since launch.

And has never been on any ā€˜knows ofā€™ list.

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it also ā€œdeletesā€ allied heals, allied gravity wells, allied projectiles, allied everything

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Yes!

Yet silence!

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is this only if you have the absorb perk? I mean the tooltip does say, ā€œConsumes ALL projectiles while Maelstrom is activeā€?

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Yes it is with the absorb.

Iā€™d like communication because itā€™s really debilitating, I have no clue why it would or should consume allies and not just enemies right?

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Zzz bump

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Thereā€™s nothing worse as a healer sending in a beacon to your team in point in war and having it eaten by one of your own DPS or tanks. It should only effect enemy projectiles but sadly itā€™s coded poorly and impacts your own tesm

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Or poison arrows, or fireballs, or orbs of decay, or gravity wellsā€¦

Yumyumyum sacrifices for the maelstrom

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so itā€™s ALLā€¦i wonder if itā€™s not the worst thing given that itā€™ll also prevent the other team from doing damage/healing as well. sorta like a net zero Impact. heals donā€™t go in but you donā€™t eat the damage from enemy arrows and fireballs etcā€¦

still would be nice if only enemy stuff got blocked
how is reap feel for people in war?

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Dog shit because of the rubberbanding.

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yeah thatā€™s sorta what it feels like. been trying without the two perks in maelstrom andā€¦well that just sucks. Itā€™s feels like you HAVE TO use it :-/

or whirlwind but that feels like Iā€™m spinning a pool noodle around lol

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bump

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What was for dinner guys? Had a few beacons in OPR :yum:

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Bump

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Manā€¦

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I wonder if it would be easy to seek out a list of community mods/cms/devs and tag literally all of them,

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You think they actually care? They would ignore it and go back to doing nothing when it comes to improving the game

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I love it when my tanks are dying on point and I send a beacon in for it to be eaten by one of my allies

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iā€™ll keep at it for another two weeks.

Iā€™ll eventually outspam the millions of idiots posting about the earring, clipping issues and random furniture memes