Quote:No. The % damage taken goes to mana works on the amount of damage you take, while the mana loss is based on the amount of damage absorbed.
Okay, I think I understand. So the more damage I take, the more damage is turned into mana, correct? I'll get test in Hell Cows right now to verify and then modify this post. The information I got on the damage of hell bovines was NOT from the .mpq for 1.1 listed in the Phrozen Keep, but from the diabloii.net Darkness site:
http://darkness.diabloii.net/beastiary/nor...mal/hellbovine/
I tested in nightmare. So NM hell bovine does 59-95 damage. Over the extent of my testing of 20 attacks, I took an average of 42.2 mana damage with 32 being the lowest and 52 the highest.
According to Tommi's site, damage goes to mana happens before energy shield absorb, so if I took 77 average damage with 135% damage goes to mana, I would of gotten back 103.95 mana per attack. However, mana cost for mana shield would of been (200% - 75% from telekinesis = 125%) 77 x 1.25 = 96.25. That means I should of been gaining an average of 7.7 mana per hit.
Am I doing the math incorrectly or am I not understanding something?
Okay, according to your post, damage goes to mana happens on the damage recieved AFTER mana shield absorb. This means on 77 damage, I absorb 74% of this and am delt 20.02 average health damage. 135% of 20.02 health damage = 27.027. Thus if I lost 96.25 mana per attack, and gained 27.027 per attack also, I would effectivly loose 69.223 on average, comming fairly close to my numbers (assuming 1.1 is different than what is listed on the Darkness site). That sucks :P . I thought damage goes to mana happened before mana shield aborb (total damage delt as it states on Tommi's site). He needs to update his site then.
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