Guild Wars 2

My “projectiles” get reflected and damaged myself while hitting thief using dagger storm. It happened to me several times. Did it happened to anyone? This is ridiculous because it is supposed to block projectiles and if they are really projectiles there should be a projectile finisher.

That’s how it works in this game.
The thing is, Reflected projectiles absolutely cannot be reflected again.
Basically, he reflects ‘em back at you, and they hit because you cannot reflect them – they were already reflected once.
On the other hand, projectiles from his dagger storm that will be reflected off you won’t be reflected by his dagger storm back again, either.

Untarget him and fire them in a different direction. Despite the animation’s appearance, the projectile absorb from ZD is omnidirectional.

amethyst.3264:

My “projectiles” get reflected and damaged myself while hitting thief using dagger storm. It happened to me several times. Did it happened to anyone? This is ridiculous because it is supposed to block projectiles and if they are really projectiles there should be a projectile finisher.

That’s the danger of using a Sword. There is something similar with Greatsword where you using Binding Blade on 5 targets and all 5 of them get reflected back at you because enemy Mesmer decided to Feedback, you end up taking over 10k damage(and possibly 1 hitting yourself).

Projectiles can only be reflected once, so your Zealot’s Defense projectile reflection part will never help against your own projectiles reflected back at you.

Sword is a very bad choice of weapon against someone who has reflect. Along with Zealot’s Defense, the 3rd hit of your auto-attack chain is also considered projectiles, and you hit yourself 3 times if it is reflected back at you.

Best response to daggerstorm is retaliation and protection, stand there, profit