Why don't death school attacks effect absorbs? When bosses use absorb of either ice or life schools, death attacks do not touch the absorbs, and do damage as they would normally. When I cast absorb on myself, similarly, incoming death spells do not effect the absorb, and do the same damage as they normally would. I've never noticed this happening before, but I was just wondering why this is happening. Is it supposed to be like that, for some unknown reason, or is it a glitch?
Because life sapping spells are not regular damage spells. Take Skeletal Pirate vs Wraith. The pirate physically attacks and damages the opponent, something absorb prevents. Wraith on the other hand sucks the life out of them and gives the caster half. It's the difference of attack methods. Because no "physical damage" is being done, there is nothing to absorb; there is no incoming damage.
All the drain health spells, Ghoul, Vampire, Scarecrow...etc, don't actuall count as attack damage. They hit as Drain Health damage instead. Absorb spells work for straight damage, so don't go into the math for drain spells. It's always been this way since I started playing a few years back...
