It sort of does absolutely nothing other than prior to the initial contact of magic. Most people with any sort of brain can tell you mages have way too much potential with ecu to change fight offensively. I feel like ecu should be a defensive magic class (support.) A crazy idea here giving magic reflect x amount of time as a buff to footies to give them 100% resist roll to keep them in more of a support roll. It would truly help out getting zerged. Since 99% of the mechanics in the game are to help zergs and good melee players have counter reduction vs other melees which does nothing now does it. If you turned down the mana cost and made it so mages kept having to reflect footies so they dont get completely crushed by mages would be pretty cool.