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KinesthePowers

Thu May 13, 2004 9:21 pm

I need clarifaction about special vs base how do I explain the difference of these to customers?

does 80% special offer more protection than 80% base and so on and so forth. In the last few weeks I've been hearing a lot of mixed things about it and Id like clarifacation, or atleast of push in the right direction to the info

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Silvadeus

Thu May 13, 2004 11:29 pm

#2

Message Edited by Silvadeus on 05-13-2004 11:32 PM

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Ox-

Fri May 14, 2004 7:38 am

#3

There was a recent thread asking a similar thing, and unfortunately my reply there was wrong so I hope I wasn't a part of your confusion.

The correct answer is there is no difference between special protection and effectiveness. 80% in special protection will reduce the amount of damage exactly the same as 80% in effectiveness.

I'm not the only one to test and verify this recently.

Besides the amount of protection, there is one difference between them however. If you slice the armor and get an effectiveness slice it will not change special protection. It will only increase effectiveness.

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XaverriJade7

Fri May 14, 2004 7:49 am

#4

Don't Special Protections tend to be higher than Base Protects on unsliced armor? If you for some reason don't want to slice your armor, then having high Special is more beneficial in those cases.

However, since Base can be sliced higher and Special cannot, it's sometimes nice to put Cold or something into Special which won't be used against you that often so that the others can be sliced up to 90% (hopefully).

Regardless of what category (Base or Special) a damage type falls into, 80%here is the same as 80% there. Hope that helps you clarify.

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