test content
Logo
What is the Arc Client?
Install Arc
potential Sanctuary problem discovered for oath of protection (circle of light)
krzrsms
Member Posts: 164 Arc User
Our protective circle didn't seem to be providing the protection it once did by casual observation so I decided to take a closer look.
According to the tooltip including the section for Oath of Protection:
You erect a zone of safety where you gain 30% increased damage resistance and allies gain 10% increased damage resistance and are rapidly healed. You are immune to control effects while maintaining this zone.
Oath of Protection: You gain 60% damage resistance and allies gain 20% damage resistance.
Most of this works fine, but the damage resistance does not. I'm fairly certain it used to, and I am not aware of when it changed. No idea if this was part of the recent nerf or not.
To test I went to WOD. I stood in a group of mobs and measured damage both before and after applying sanctuary. There was no change to the damage amounts. 60% damage resistance would certainly be a noticeable change, and there was none, as in 0 change. My current total damage resistance was listed as 46.7, so even if sanctuary were to take you to 60%, that would still be a noticible ~14% change. There was a group hitting me regularly for 962 both before and after applying Sanctuary.
It is possible to hold shift and bring up your character sheet. I did this, after the above change. On looking there my concern was validated, there was 0 change to my damage resistance while holding the sanctuary vs after it had run out, or viewing without it being applied at all.
After hearing several observations that paladins felt they were getting killed easier after the nerf. This could be one reason. Our shield is now not a shield at all, but a healing circle.
According to the tooltip including the section for Oath of Protection:
You erect a zone of safety where you gain 30% increased damage resistance and allies gain 10% increased damage resistance and are rapidly healed. You are immune to control effects while maintaining this zone.
Oath of Protection: You gain 60% damage resistance and allies gain 20% damage resistance.
Most of this works fine, but the damage resistance does not. I'm fairly certain it used to, and I am not aware of when it changed. No idea if this was part of the recent nerf or not.
To test I went to WOD. I stood in a group of mobs and measured damage both before and after applying sanctuary. There was no change to the damage amounts. 60% damage resistance would certainly be a noticeable change, and there was none, as in 0 change. My current total damage resistance was listed as 46.7, so even if sanctuary were to take you to 60%, that would still be a noticible ~14% change. There was a group hitting me regularly for 962 both before and after applying Sanctuary.
It is possible to hold shift and bring up your character sheet. I did this, after the above change. On looking there my concern was validated, there was 0 change to my damage resistance while holding the sanctuary vs after it had run out, or viewing without it being applied at all.
After hearing several observations that paladins felt they were getting killed easier after the nerf. This could be one reason. Our shield is now not a shield at all, but a healing circle.
0
Comments
So Im encouraging others to test real quick and see about confirming this observation.
Any of my comments not posted in orange are based on my own personal opinion and not official.
Any messages written in orange are official moderation messages. Signature images are now fixed!
I left a foe hits me during 10 minutes, regular damage was between 1800-1900.
excluding critical hits.
Once Sanctuary is up, regular damage is between 750-850. It seems normal.
But if I apply some kind of damage reduction like Circle of power.
The results are the same, after and before sanctuary.
So based on purely speculation I believe it just help you to reach 80% reduction cap.
it doesn't add a extra layer of damage reduction like GF guard.
I dont have ACT installed since I formatted my pc, and I will not install it until weekend... probably.
Maybe I will perform extra test then.
BTW I think the Sanctuary activation problem is a reported bug already, several times it doesn't activate. you need to put your shield down and activate again.