Originally Posted by Multibocks
Grounding totems and spell reflection have some strange behaviors with spread aoe and frontal cones, I've not full tested their effect on everything but they do some interesting things... one day I'll test it all out and see what can be done. If the target of a spread aoe (chain lightning, for example) has grounding or spell reflection, it gets grounded or reflected and doesn't spread.
I don't know for sure, but I believe incinerate + fire&brimstone will work like chain lightning - if the target has a reflect or ground, it will be reflected or grounded and not spread, but not the entire thing (an incinerate hitting 15 targets doesn't reflect 15 back, unfortunately).
More interestingly I discovered Chaos Wave - a frontal cone aoe, is completely absorbed by spell reflection or a grounding totem - hitting no one but not being reflected back at the warlock. A certain multiboxing warlock has had 5 simultaneously cast chaos waves go into the ether from a single spell reflection - they hit no one, not even the casters.
Another fun fact - since chaos damage (like chaos bolt, chaos wave) do not have an actual magic class and go through magic immunities, they default to physical damage when they hit an immunity. So, oddly enough Hand of Protection makes you completely immune to Chaos Bolt. Anti Magic Shell has no effect.
What I've always wanted to know is if you reflect procs - i.e. ele shaman mastery. I know a guy who has 100% mastery who'd be easy to test on - will he get hit by his own spell twice?
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