Am i reading this wrong?

General Discussion
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Ok. I’m playing Highlander Mage against face Hunter.

he’s wearing me down while i try to stabilize a board and heal as i can.

i’ve used zephrys and reno(hero card) and all i have is a barrier to keep me alive while my board is doing the job and i’m nearly there.

all i need is that barrier…and i draw it. so i have 3 armor and 1 health, and i play the barrier … oh sweet i’ll have 12 lives so i’m good. in two turns i win.

the secret reads “when your hero is attacked, you gain 8 armor”.

next turn he can’t do anything on board, he hero powers.

and i go down to 1health 1 armor … and my secret doesn’t proc…

hold on a minute …

…my hero has just been attacked…and the secret didn’t proc…am i reading this wrong?

by then i played dragoncaster and power of creation, and i summoned two khartut defenders (probably misspelling it) …

and had my secret proc’d, i would be able to destroy the minions and heal and go on to win the game…

…if you’ve made it this far, congratulations!! now i have a question…

… am i reading this wrong? should it be fixed? should the secret proc? what are your thoughts??

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no. it only counts as an attack if a minion or another hero (via a weapon or druid’s hero power for example) slam into your hero and damage it. spells and hero powers (like hunter’s or mage’s) don’t count as attacks.

no. it works as intended.

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sigh

oh well…i still think if a spell (or hero power) takes health out of you, it is attacking you…but hey…not here to discuss semantics. it was just a rant in story form.
now i know what to expect! thanks for your time.

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I kind of agree with you… But what i understand is that “attack” is a prefix or a keyword that explains the action taken by minions and heroes… Thus not applying to spells and hero powers that deal “spell damage”