Armorsmith Archive
Thread: Is Post CU armor actually doing anything?
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WarHokie
Sat Apr 30, 2005 11:07 am
#1
May be a silly question to ask, but I thought maybe the armorsmiths with combat alts would have studied this closer than ordinary comat players.
When I wore armor on TC, it displayed damage like:
"You take X, out of a possible Y, your armor stopped Y-X points of damage"
now, what I see is:
"Enemy hits you for X"
In my tests, the X is roughly equal if I wear my armor or not. I've tried with padded and stormie armor, and neither appear to actually do anything. My guild tested it, and found much the same thing, eventually just hunting unarmored and experiencing no noticable difference.
Is this unique to Sunrunner, or has anyone else noticed this?
Thanks!
-Dalnara
When I wore armor on TC, it displayed damage like:
"You take X, out of a possible Y, your armor stopped Y-X points of damage"
now, what I see is:
"Enemy hits you for X"
In my tests, the X is roughly equal if I wear my armor or not. I've tried with padded and stormie armor, and neither appear to actually do anything. My guild tested it, and found much the same thing, eventually just hunting unarmored and experiencing no noticable difference.
Is this unique to Sunrunner, or has anyone else noticed this?
Thanks!
-Dalnara
wickedHangover
Sat Apr 30, 2005 11:11 am
#2
i'm noticing it too, i'm not an armorsmith, i just came here to find out what recon armor was...but yes, my armor work better in my backpack than on me.
Kindbeer
Sat Apr 30, 2005 11:37 am
#3
If you change the option for combat chat to verbose in the chat options then you will see shat it is doing for you. It will say how much damage you took first and that is what got through the armor, then what damage type, then how much was prevented by the armor. Remeber the first number is damage taken after the armor has already worked. The last number is what was prevented.
Never tried without any armor on. It looks too cool 
Message Edited by Kindbeer on 04-30-2005 11:38 AM
Ryal
Sat Apr 30, 2005 8:33 pm
#4
Along the same lines, are Mini Suits still a viable option? I know boots and gloves are meaningless now, but how much armor do you need to wear? and if you are missing pieces what is the effect?
darevsool
Sun May 01, 2005 1:28 am
#5
not sure there's even a need to attempt a 'mini-suit' anymore. From what I understand, when you equip one piece of armor you have the same hinderance as a full suit. If you mix 2 classes of armor you get the heaviest hinderance of the 2 types.
I haven't tried it, but that is what I remember reading that they were shooting for.
Mcgreag
Sun May 01, 2005 4:06 am
#6
First go to options (ctrl+o) an then the chat tap I think it was, at the buttom you can set it to give you more combat spam (like how much your armor protected).
PaladinX333
Sun May 01, 2005 5:37 am
#7
In my testing the numbers are fairly easy to figure out too. If your kinetic protection is 4000,the armorwill stop 40% of the damage from a kinetic attack. I was able to determine this by attacking lvl 15 cu-pas with and without armor. It was perfectly consistant too.
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