08-17-2003, 08:59 PM
Actually there is a major bug in the internal (DLL) formula that is being used to display the life of minions on the skill screens. For most of them they are not correctly generating the amount of life to show the player on the character screen. The skills are however generating the amount of life correctly for what will actually be getting used in the games actual play. For example check out how badly that the necro skeletons and skeletal mages life is being displayed verses what teh game actually uses in this thread.
http://www.theamazonbasin.com/d2/forums/in...3&t=29043&st=15
While the problem with inncorrect life values is very bad with the skeletons, it still is happening to some degree with most of the "monsters" that have a complex life calcuation to display to the character. This does not mean that the life that is actually being used in the game for the monster is not being correctly handled though. See my testing example in that thread concerning the life of the skeletons.
For the case of the synergy that is applied to the Bone Armor skill; in the skills.txt file the amount that is actually set up for the skill is a straight addition and not a percentage as the character screen is indicating. The error in this case appears to be a matter of using the wrong description string (showing +X% intead of just +X) for the skill display, not the value that is calculated to show as the amount to be absorbed.
With the amount of skill points available to be spent, this can be good that the 'synergy bonus' is better than spending skill points on the skill itself. Putting most of the points into Bone Wall or Bone Prison will allow them to have good durations while still giving the necro a good defensive armor of indefinate duration. For balance though the bonus might be better at +10/level instead of the +15/level as it is currently.
http://www.theamazonbasin.com/d2/forums/in...3&t=29043&st=15
While the problem with inncorrect life values is very bad with the skeletons, it still is happening to some degree with most of the "monsters" that have a complex life calcuation to display to the character. This does not mean that the life that is actually being used in the game for the monster is not being correctly handled though. See my testing example in that thread concerning the life of the skeletons.
For the case of the synergy that is applied to the Bone Armor skill; in the skills.txt file the amount that is actually set up for the skill is a straight addition and not a percentage as the character screen is indicating. The error in this case appears to be a matter of using the wrong description string (showing +X% intead of just +X) for the skill display, not the value that is calculated to show as the amount to be absorbed.
With the amount of skill points available to be spent, this can be good that the 'synergy bonus' is better than spending skill points on the skill itself. Putting most of the points into Bone Wall or Bone Prison will allow them to have good durations while still giving the necro a good defensive armor of indefinate duration. For balance though the bonus might be better at +10/level instead of the +15/level as it is currently.