Please explain the Blacksmith's active bonus

mittensofdoom

On damage taken:
15% chance to reflect 10% of damage. If the same target is hit 4 times it will reflect 3 times the damage taken.

The wording of this confuses me. Can someone explain in idiot terms what this all means. Is the target me and does reflect mean reduced damage?

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ryugasirius

mittensofdoom wrote: »

On damage taken:
15% chance to reflect 10% of damage. If the same target is hit 4 times it will reflect 3 times the damage taken.

The wording of this confuses me. Can someone explain in idiot terms what this all means. Is the target me and does reflect mean reduced damage?

A redcap does 1000 damage to you. You have 15% chance to reflect 100 damage (10%) on the redcap.

If the redcap lives enough to activate the reflected damage for 4 times, the 4th time he will take 300 (30%) damage instead, and the count resets to 0.

mittensofdoom

Ohh ok thank you for the clarification, sounds like quite a good bonus then

abaddon523

It might be good for a tank in some instances, but really it's a minor bonus. A 15% chance to reflect 10% of the damage equates to a 1.5% reduction in damage taken. Not much really. All enemies besides bosses should die before they hit you four times so the fourth hit bonus won't contribute much to your damage.