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Post by John Robinson on May 19, 2014 18:23:02 GMT -5
I might have missed this when Fyona first arrived. But when doing a routine audit of her talent table to sync with v2.1.43
there is something about Holy Strickening I don't understand.
Holy Strickening(5) Curses 3+Invocation Turns. 3AP 42 SP. -4 Dodge, -12 Resistance, -2 All Resists.
At level 5 and higher the "All Resists" appears new to me. How does it differ from the regular subtracted Resistance?
Is the -12 Resistance elemental only? the -2 death?
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Post by fallen on May 19, 2014 18:30:07 GMT -5
The -12 reduces the combat Stat Resistance.
The -2 All Resists reduces Fire, Ice, Holy, Lit, Earth.
I hope that helps explain it! This is the only Curse in the game that modifies the Resistance stat.
Resistance is like Toughness for magical damage.
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Post by John Robinson on May 19, 2014 18:57:49 GMT -5
BIG help. Got it thanks, I will tweak the table.  Edit: 5:14 pst table tweaked haha |
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Post by En1gma on Aug 1, 2014 14:26:04 GMT -5
Question- how exactly does Strickening create weaknesses (I know it must be brought below zero)? Can it only make weaknesses with *elemental* resistances or does it work with combat resistance as well? Thanks in advance =)
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Post by fallen on Aug 1, 2014 16:19:20 GMT -5
En1gma - Weakness is caused only against a specific element.
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Post by CdrPlatypus on Aug 1, 2014 21:51:03 GMT -5
If a mob does not list a specific resistance do multiple types of magic damge help overcome soak like +2 holy + 4 fire; or is it best to stack one element?
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Post by fallen on Aug 1, 2014 22:36:45 GMT -5
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Post by contributor on Aug 2, 2014 2:27:11 GMT -5
Basically the general resistance that you see when you pull up a monster stat box shows their resistance vs. all types of magical damage. If you're doing multiple types of magical damage they all get rolled (soaked) against this separately.
Then there are specific resists such as "Resists Fire." That creates an extra soak roll when Fire damage is done. So if somebody resists something specific that damage is getting soaked twice.
Now if they are weak verse a particular element and/or Holy then the damage caused by that element is actually increased by their specific weakness before it is soaked against their general resistance.
So at higher levels of Holy Strickening Fyona is reducing general resistance and she is also decreasing elemental resistance which in most cases actually creates weaknesses because the monster has no specific resistance vs. various elements or Holy.
Say the spell cast in the OP is cast on an Ice Troll that has 22 general resistance and 6 resistance of Lightening and Ice each. After the spell is cast he will have a 10 general resistance and 4 resistance of Lightening and Ice. He will also be weak verse all other elements and Holy by 2. So say Karjtan pounds him with a firebolt for 56 damage of which 36 is base damage and 20 is actual fire damage. The fire damage is actually increased by 2 because of weakness vs fire created by Fyona's Strickening. So then 22 fire damage is rolled against the Trolls now general resistance of 10.
If Lightening damage were done it would be soaked first against the specific resistance (4) and then the general resistance (10).
A final note. You only get the bonus of weakness vs. up to the amount of damage you've actually done. So if if somebody has a weakness vs. Holy of 12 but you only do 8 Holy damage it's only going to add on an extra 8 damage not the full 12. But hey, you've still doubled your Holy damage.
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Post by CdrPlatypus on Aug 3, 2014 19:51:06 GMT -5
Thank you lurker for the excellent explanation
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