07-30-2006, 04:44 PM
Quote:All of this immunity bidniss seems a tad off. I don't recall my source on this one, but I believe the 20% effectiveness when breaking immunity only applies when you are actually...breaking the immunity. Yeah, that makes sense, dunnit? Examples, ho!Hi,
Monster A has 110% physical resistance (and is immune, obviously). Amplify damage should lower him to 50% physical resistance (10% over 100 * 5 = 50%, 100% - 50% = 50%). Too many fifties in that one.
Monster B has 105% physical resistance. Amplify damage should lower him to 25% physical resistance. (5% * 5 = 25%. 100% - 75% = 25%)
Monster C has 120% physical resistance. You can't break his immunity with Amplify Damage.
Seems a bit counterintuitive, so if anyone wants to dispute me here, I'll try to dig up that source (or maybe just concede the point out of laziness).
--me
I don't think that's how it works.
From what I've heard (and what my testing shows), it's more like this:
Monster A has 110% physical resistance. Amplify damage lowers the resistance to 90% (110% -100%*0.2)
If an immunity is tried to be broken (which is the case when the monster has >= 100% resistance), then AD as well as LR (and perhaps Conviction - I don't know) are only working at 20% effectiveness, which in case of AD equals only a by 20% lowered physical resistance of the targeted monster.
Monster B has 105% physical resistance, which gets lowered to 85% (105% - 100%*0.2).
Monster C has 120% physical resistance, which gets lowered to 100%, and is still immune.
That's what I think. Feel free to correct me, though.
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