okay so a spell like absorb elements the assumption seems to be it gives you resistance to the incoming damage, get hit by a fireball you use it and take 1/2 damage from fire including the fireball that triggered the reaction and will continue to until start of your next turn, so in effect you got resistance at the same time or a moment before the damage hit. Kind of like how an attack of opportunity is in response to creatures leaving your reach you get the attack off while they are still within reach. Shield you get the Ac vs the attack that hit but it specifies that.
Okay for something like misty escape on a fey warlock, its a reaction teleport to taking damage. Assuming the 30 feet gets you out of reach of the damage do you take damage at all. Do you teleport away a moment before it hits, like your attack of opportunity goes off a inch before they are actually out of your reach. Or unless it has a line like with shield where it says it works against the attack that triggered it, you get hit, take the damage and misty step.
I read it like you take the damage and then misty step. But reactions are kind of weird in that they happen a moment before the triggering event frequently.
What confuses it imo is absorb elements. The spell captures some of the incoming energy, lessening its effect on you and storing it for your next melee attack. You have resistance to the triggering damage type until the start of your next turn.
That first sentence reads like fluff text and neither line really says directly and works against the damage that triggered it where as shield says, Until the start of your next turn, you have a +5 bonus to AC, including against the triggering attack,
I am pretty sure the intent on absorb elements is to work on the triggering effect as its pretty rare you are going to get hit multiple times in the same round by fire damage, sure it happens if fighting multiple fire elementals or mephits or something, just not often enough for the spell to exist. But it is also a 1st level spell so i don't think that interpretation would be out of line. Still it is not explicit, where as shield is as is a illusionists illusory self. So when does the reaction occur on this and misty escape, and similar features.
I read it like you take the damage and then misty step. But reactions are kind of weird in that they happen a moment before the triggering event frequently.
You've got the right idea. The reaction will (cough should) indicate when the reaction resolves before the trigger, and otherwise always occurs after.
I agree with DxJxC, in terms of timing, a Reaction takes place immediately after its trigger unless the Reaction’s description says otherwise, which Misty Escape does not.
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okay so a spell like absorb elements the assumption seems to be it gives you resistance to the incoming damage, get hit by a fireball you use it and take 1/2 damage from fire including the fireball that triggered the reaction and will continue to until start of your next turn, so in effect you got resistance at the same time or a moment before the damage hit. Kind of like how an attack of opportunity is in response to creatures leaving your reach you get the attack off while they are still within reach. Shield you get the Ac vs the attack that hit but it specifies that.
Okay for something like misty escape on a fey warlock, its a reaction teleport to taking damage. Assuming the 30 feet gets you out of reach of the damage do you take damage at all. Do you teleport away a moment before it hits, like your attack of opportunity goes off a inch before they are actually out of your reach. Or unless it has a line like with shield where it says it works against the attack that triggered it, you get hit, take the damage and misty step.
I read it like you take the damage and then misty step. But reactions are kind of weird in that they happen a moment before the triggering event frequently.
What confuses it imo is absorb elements. The spell captures some of the incoming energy, lessening its effect on you and storing it for your next melee attack. You have resistance to the triggering damage type until the start of your next turn.
That first sentence reads like fluff text and neither line really says directly and works against the damage that triggered it where as shield says, Until the start of your next turn, you have a +5 bonus to AC, including against the triggering attack,
I am pretty sure the intent on absorb elements is to work on the triggering effect as its pretty rare you are going to get hit multiple times in the same round by fire damage, sure it happens if fighting multiple fire elementals or mephits or something, just not often enough for the spell to exist. But it is also a 1st level spell so i don't think that interpretation would be out of line. Still it is not explicit, where as shield is as is a illusionists illusory self. So when does the reaction occur on this and misty escape, and similar features.
You've got the right idea. The reaction will (cough should) indicate when the reaction resolves before the trigger, and otherwise always occurs after.
Misty escape definitely occurs after the damage.
I agree with DxJxC, in terms of timing, a Reaction takes place immediately after its trigger unless the Reaction’s description says otherwise, which Misty Escape does not.