For some reason, the Armor of Faith spell seems to affect enemies.

 

1) Create game

2) Do the Medreth quest until you can attack Medreth

3) Cast Armor of Faith with Priest

4) Notice enemies are boosted

 

Expected: No boost to enemies.

 

 

As an aside, my whole party swung everything they got on that dwarf. The fight was crazy long and those enemies were sword sponges, but that dwarf had a defense rating of 135+ and could only take him down with graze attacks. Took a good 20 minutes +. Something's off here.

Edited September 4, 201411 yr by Headbomb

Oh wow, is that what it was?  I was playing on Path of the Damned and the dwarf had 157 deflection, but yes I cast the priest spell.  I thought it was just way overtuned since 157 meant that everyone literally could not hit him with basic attacks.  Was finally able to down him by using basically every ability I had, including the priest ability that hits him for burning damage and drops deflection by 25.

 

Kudos to you sir on figuring it out.

Like this.

 

I don't recall casting Armor of Faith in this encounter, but I may have...

I thought the fight with that dwarf was so hard becuase I set my difficulty to Path of the Damned. Guess it was just him having insane defense.

Well spotted. I just thought the crazy armor was yet another bug.

Funny thing: I haven't cast armor of faith and that Cowled Dwarf had 115.5 Defense: he teared down my whole party just because he didn't want to die. :/

Edited September 7, 201411 yr by Metalloman

Haven't cast it either and while at some point, the cowled dwarf had 155 defense, after 10 minutes of futile attempts at hitting him, he was up to 165, and two of my characters were fatigued, with single digit defenses. The fight was very slow even with the other enemy characters' lower defenses...

 

http://abload.de/img/defenceh2ctq.jpg

 

[edit] changed image to link to preserve forum's width

 

[edit2] played at normal difficulty setting, with expert mode on, if that has any influence on this issue

Edited September 9, 201411 yr by samm

The Cowled Dwarf is a priest from what I understand, I saw him cast spells like stamina regen and armor of faith.

 

Now there are other issues with crazy DR, but it is still possible that he is responsible for his own buff too.