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Thread: Question about synthsteak and armor

turrix
Tue May 04, 2004 10:41 am
#1

My question is when you eat a synthsteak while wearing armor does the damage reduction occur after the armor has blocked what it has?



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BabyRancor
Tue May 04, 2004 2:23 pm
#2

Hmm - I'll have to check again. I could have sworn I was taking no damage.



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BabyRancor
Wed May 05, 2004 12:40 am
#3

Yes - it blocks damage after the armour has taken its hit, however the % damage reduction from the synthsteak is calculated on the initial damage not on the damage reduced by the armour.


So essentially, if you have good armour on you'll see that the armour has blocked 70% or so, and the synthsteak (if high enough %) will take away the remainder damage.


End result is that you take no damage at all from the hit.





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sciguyCO
Wed May 05, 2004 12:56 am
#4






BabyRancor wrote:

Yes - it blocks damage after the armour has taken its hit, however the % damage reduction from the synthsteak is calculated on the initial damage not on the damage reduced by the armour.


So essentially, if you have good armour on you'll see that the armour has blocked 70% or so, and the synthsteak (if high enough %) will take away the remainder damage.


End result is that you take no damage at all from the hit.




I don't think that's right, although I'm not positive on the order of the damage reduction.


I think (have to double check when I get home tonight) that the initial hit gets the reduction from the synthsteak, even before it shows up in your combat spam. So if you are under the effect of a 25% reduction synthsteak, and you see "creatures hits you for 600 damage", followed by "200 damage was mitigated by defensive buffs" that means the actual hit was 800.


The armor resistences (and 50% reduction if you get hit with an AP0 attack) calculate off of the 600 damage you got hit for. So for an AP0 weapon and 70% resistence, that original 800 gets reduced like this:


  • 800 * (1 - 0.25 )= 600 (synthsteak reduction, the 600is what shows up in combat spam, and you also get the message "200 damage was mitigated by defensive buffs")

  • 600 * 0.5 = 300 (AP0 vs AR1 reduction)

  • 300 * ( 1 - 0.7 ) = 90 (70% resistence, combat spam shows "armor blocked 510 damage")

So after all your damage reduction, you should see a "-90" over your toon's head.


The spam does get confusing, especially since the damage reduction from synthsteak shows up after the spam showing what got blocked by your armor. And the initial hit damage shown in the spam has already had the synthsteak's reduction subtracted, which is why adding up the amount mitigated and the amount blocked by armor is greater than the initial hit shown.





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