Combat Medic attack stacking. Help?

[John Robinson]

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Combat Medic's poison attacks, poison resistance attacks, and initiative curse attacks. 
 
I'm driving myself crazy trying to figure out how the multi-turn attacks are going to stack.

1	Bio-Poison Slugs	3 Turns	+20 Bio-Poison damage
2	Toxin Terror	3 Turns	-2 Initiative, -10 Bio-Poison Resist
3	Bio-Poison Grenade	3 Turns	-2 Initiative, -10 Bio-Poison Resist , +14 Bio-Poison Dmg
4	Snakebite	3 Turns	-15 Bio-Poison Resist

1.)  If I land a hit with 2 and 3. Will target initiative be reduced by -4 ?  

2.)  Do initiative attacks stack the same way as critical hit percentages?
      For example a follow on attack with Pistoleer's, Tricky Gunplay, curses -6 initiative for 2 turns.  

3.)  If I land a hit with 2, 3 and 4.  Will poison resistance be lowered by 35?
     
4.)  If I land a hit with 1 and 4.  Does this mean the target is taking 35 points of poison damage?

Really appreciate shinning a flashlight on this mental cockroach of confusion. 

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[fallen]

1. yes.
2. A -2 Init debuff followed by a -6 Init debuff = -8 Init debuff. Simple stacking, no percentages involved.
3. Yes, simple stacking of poison resist = -35
4. Negative Res and Special Damage works like Heroes of Steel. If you have negative poison res and take a point of poison damage, it causes 2 damage. So, if you take 20 Bio-Poison and have -15 Res, you take (15 x 2 because there is only -15 to double) + 5 (the remaining poison damage). However, remember that poison damage is ROLLED like normal damage, so you don't guarantee to get 20, you get WeightedDice(20) which is 10+D10.

So, full example ... Let's say 10+D10 = 12 (rolled a 2). You have -15 Poison Res, so up to 15 Poison damage can be doubled = 24 BP damage.

[John Robinson]

Thanks, especially for the weighted dice / HoS comparison.

Really demonstrates the importance of having V.W. when facing an enemy Combat Medic.

Vaccination Watch

Buffs entire team with +10% Armor, +36 Bio-Poison Resist for 3 Turns

[drspendlove]

Seems like it isn't the best for balance if the best counter to a combat medic is a combat medic.

[Cory Trese]

Apr 21, 2018 20:59:16 GMT -5 drspendlove said:

Seems like it isn't the best for balance if the best counter to a combat medic is a combat medic.

Thank goodness it isn't, right?

[fallen]

Apr 21, 2018 20:59:16 GMT -5 drspendlove said:

Seems like it isn't the best for balance if the best counter to a combat medic is a combat medic.

Lol why?

Careful, Exo-Scouts also have poison! So will Assassins oh my!

[drspendlove]

I haven't been overly worried about poison in general. But I thought the earlier sentiment was that you must use a Combat Medic ability to fight against Combat Medics or you are at a serious disadvantage. But meh. I was just commenting. I didn't mean anything too serious by it.

[fallen]

Apr 21, 2018 22:34:34 GMT -5 drspendlove said:

I haven't been overly worried about poison in general. But I thought the earlier sentiment was that you must use a Combat Medic ability to fight against Combat Medics or you are at a serious disadvantage. But meh. I was just commenting. I didn't mean anything too serious by it.

But you really don't. It's a debuff

Sorry if that hasn't been clear. Bio-Poison is a debuff like any other debuff and can be purged by many different Jobs.

Hmm, thanks. Good reminder to teach the AI to be smarter about purging.

[drspendlove]

Hah! I was half-asleep while writing both comments. Sorry if they didn't make sense!