Nyx Absorb - No Damage Dealt

[Terrornaut]

There have been times where I've used absorb and have successfully tanked a ton of gunfire with it.  Enemies have been nearly in the small bubble around her, to varying distances away.  Sometimes though, no enemies will take damage at all - enemies in plain, unobstructed sight.  

 

This happens to me with grineer more than other factions, typically in the wide open rooms while enemies are near one of the walls and boxes (like that big wide open room on the mining tileset that has the large ramp on one side, then the two ramps that go way up going in the other direction).

 

Sometimes it does tons of damage, often I see it do none, whether enemies are hugging or 10 feet away.
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I often wish I could press 4 again to detonate it early, but really when often enough it doesn't do any damage at all, there isn't much for me to say.

Streamline, stretch, constitution are equipped.  I've also had focus on her a couple times (no point really) just to see how psybolts felt.  One of the times absorb did no damage at point blank, I definitely had focus equipped.

[Farren]

It might just be catching on some hitbox and then stopping because that's how Absorbs' damge return works, maybe it's latency, or maybe it's trying to tell you to make Warframe into your personal RTS. :P

[Turtleshellon]

You do understand that absorb does exactly what it implies. It absorbs damage and returns whatever damage it gets. If you are being heavily attacked while absorb is on then it will have a high output damage. If you are being lightly attacked then it will put out low damage. This skill has many flaws and hopefully it will be fixed. 2 main problems I have with absorb. 1: It does not have any type of agro so you may not even be attacked which will result in 0 damage output "this happens a lot". 2: When you are dealing with higher level mobs you have to be really careful. In the survival event I popped absorb about 35 min in while in the middle of a lot of infested and it was absorbing a lot of damage but the mobs were high level and the damage output did not kill them. What that means is all the 30 plus mobs that were hitting me during absorb, most did not die. What happened was soon as absorb was over I instantly died because of the number of mobs already attacking me that did not die from the blast. Nyx needs to have an invulnerable time after absorb is over like 2 seconds or something because she is very vulnerable when it is over if the mobs do not die. The skill also needs to have agro so mobs will actually attack you and make the skill useful but you can't make one change without the other. If you add agro to the skill without the invulnerable element after it is over then you will create a worst problem and die a lot in the way I described. 

[Terrornaut]

I am saying that while being attacked, shot plenty from enemies all around, damage sometimes does not happen.  I'm not talking low damage, I'm talking zero damage.

To a degree I'm okay with mobs not being taunted, this game has good AI, why would they attack something that's sucking in all their bullets?  Tanking for a few friends or holding out is okay.  I'm not going to complain about the taunt factor being added though.  I just wish the range was clear and that this problem didn't happen.

[Turtleshellon]

I am saying that while being attacked, shot plenty from enemies all around, damage sometimes does not happen.  I'm not talking low damage, I'm talking zero damage.

To a degree I'm okay with mobs not being taunted, this game has good AI, why would they attack something that's sucking in all their bullets?  Tanking for a few friends or holding out is okay.  I'm not going to complain about the taunt factor being added though.  I just wish the range was clear and that this problem didn't happen.

You might think it's 0 damage, it just very low from the input. Without agro the skill is useless. Nobody attacking you, no damage done. Without agro the skill is not viable at all and is more of a hit and miss type of thing rather then a reliable skill that can be used strategically.