I haven't used it in a while, but I believe your dodge still has a cap.

If your max dodge is 25% and you active this ability, you will get a 25% dodge.

Monsters can bypass dodge like they can bypass fortification.

Artorias wrote on Oct 4^th, 2015 at 1:45pm:


Wouldn't put it past Turdbine to code it as a +100% to your current dodge.  So if you have 5% it becomes 10%.

Starkjade wrote on Oct 4^th, 2015 at 1:59pm:


No, it's not that.

Meld sometimes bugs out.  you hit the ability, it does the flip, and says "like a shadow."   If it doesn't do that, say you don't have enough room to make the backflip, it doesn't work.

It's affected by dodge cap. It's completely useless: https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php/381212-Compilation-of-ED-Bugs

Shuy wrote on Oct 4^th, 2015 at 1:52pm:


totally wrote on Oct 5^th, 2015 at 4:29am:

dodge cap is completely unrelated. you get 100% dodge bonus by all means.
as a side note, if you are hit by emeny while backflip, meld into darkness is considered to be activation failure
and the effect disappears immediately.

thus slightly difficult to activate MiD in mixed fight.

totally wrote on Oct 5^th, 2015 at 11:49am:


I agree with you that if you are offering a dodge 100% feature, then the dodge cap needs to go up with it.  Since nobody has a dodge cap of 100% any other way.  Otherwise, they description should be - "increases dodge%  to whatever your dodge cap is currently for 9/12/15 seconds".

Starkjade wrote on Oct 5^th, 2015 at 3:35pm:


But, Turbine...

I gotta say that when I use uncanny dodge (pretty much every time in a fight with multiple opponents or a strong one) the actual dodge goes up

When I use(d) Meld into Darkness I didn't notice any benefit whatsoever so I assume there can only be two possible explanations:

- the dodge is restricted by your current cap and, therefore, it's useless for a toon that relies on dodge since it's probably capped anyway. I know it's says 100% but it must be a bug.

- the skill actually doubles your dodge value and it's useless anyway (at least for the cooldown it has).

I already re skilled the ED and invested the points elsewhere. I don't care if this skill is WAI or not.
The benefit is absent or so small that it actually doesn't make a difference

Bigjunk wrote on Oct 5^th, 2015 at 4:07pm:


Helpful. It's also listed as being wrong here: Meld Into Darkness, active: +100% for 6 seconds, does currently not exceed the dodge cap (bugged). (Shadowdancer). Is this wrong too?

Cheers.