Electric Elemental Ward does not benefit from the overguard change

[DeMonkey]

The recent changes allowing Chroma to work well even with overguard were great in my opinion, however there is one part of his kit that is still negatively affected by overguard, Elemental Ward with the electric effect.

Unlike cold's damage "deflection" which works whether it's your overguard, shield or health being hit, the electric effect only works if you're taking shield or health damage. Personally I feel overguard damage should be considered. Chroma's own tips specify that it's simply "incoming damage" that generates lightning arcs, not that it needs to be health or shield damage. As it is, overguard completely removes any effect from electric Elemental Ward.

Given that Elemental Ward is Chroma's subsumable ability as well, this is an issue that affects not just Chroma.

On another note, I don't want to create a separate feedback thread for this, but I recall the lightning arcs actually coming off of Chroma and hitting enemies in the past. Nowadays nearby enemies are just zapped without the lightning arc effect, which lowers the cool factor by about 90%.

[WhipandT3ar]

On 2024-04-11 at 6:41 AM, DeMonkey said:

The recent changes allowing Chroma to work well even with overguard were great in my opinion, however there is one part of his kit that is still negatively affected by overguard, Elemental Ward with the electric effect.

Unlike cold's damage "deflection" which works whether it's your overguard, shield or health being hit, the electric effect only works if you're taking shield or health damage. Personally I feel overguard damage should be considered. Chroma's own tips specify that it's simply "incoming damage" that generates lightning arcs, not that it needs to be health or shield damage. As it is, overguard completely removes any effect from electric Elemental Ward.

Given that Elemental Ward is Chroma's subsumable ability as well, this is an issue that affects not just Chroma.

On another note, I don't want to create a separate feedback thread for this, but I recall the lightning arcs actually coming off of Chroma and hitting enemies in the past. Nowadays nearby enemies are just zapped without the lightning arc effect, which lowers the cool factor by about 90%.

I'm so tired of going into squads with hildryn and seeing a Dante or a stynax