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Plague Fire Math

scoutmasterjscoutmasterj Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 101 Arc User
edited February 2014 in General Discussion (PC)
I looked back at some old posts from August about Plague Fire enchantment, but I still don't quite understand the math.

I have 24% Armor Pen and a Greater Plague fire. The threads seem to indicate that the plague fire is still useful because the target can get a negative damage resistance? What is the math behind this. If the Plague Fire procs three times what is happening math wise between it and Armor Pen?

Perhaps the argument isn't valid anymore. A few posts seemed to think that it had been changed since August.
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  • dodgododgo Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 870 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    any minus % is actually positive.

    say u have -4%; it actually adds 4% to your damage :)
  • s3ven0fmines3ven0fmine Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    Plague fire does not but enemy's into negatives.
  • sean99999sean99999 Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Hero Users, Neverwinter Knight of the Feywild Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    s3ven0fmine wrote: »
    Plague fire does not but enemy's into negatives.

    I have done my own log parsing and plague fire DOES bring enemy's resistances into negatives.
  • inthefade462inthefade462 Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    there is no such thing as bringing resistances into the negatives.

    all debuffs are damage buffs. ignore every tool tip and parse them for yourselves.

    each stack of greater plague fire adds 3% bonus dmg. it can stack x3 so +9% dmg, though its very hard to maintain 3 stacks.
  • eton3000eton3000 Banned Users Posts: 230 Bounty Hunter
    edited February 2014
    this is so old news....
    why cant people understand that all debuffs have no relation to armor penetration?
    0-24% armpen whatever you may have, you will still get bonus damage because ALL DEBUFFS ARE ACTUALLY DAMAGE BUFFS
  • tang56tang56 Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users, Neverwinter Knight of the Feywild Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    Sigh. Why are people even arguing about if it's a negative opponent def debuff or a positive player buff. The maths is the same.
    RIP Neverwinter 26/06/2014
  • inthefade462inthefade462 Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    because a negative opponent def debuff implies that a Mob has a defense score. it implies that there is some relation between what the tool tip indicates and what it actually does. it implies that it is calculated along with armor penetration, and that are both are necessary to "achieve negative resistance," and because the math isn't the same.
  • kolbe11kolbe11 Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    Old argument, same topic, different date... Sigh.

    Google and you shall see.

    Furthermore, people need to post their /combatlog 1 and/or their math or it just plain doesn't matter.
    "It is said that idle hands are the Devil's tools: Idle geek hands, however, came up with gunpowder, nuclear weapons, and toilet plungers." -Illiad
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