(PvE) Martial Mastery Information

Tactician Capstone effects:


- Restores 0.25% of Total Action Points per 1% of the GF's HP lost of postmitigated damage (ie, after damage debuffs/damage resistance/etc etc).
- This AP re-fill scales with damage resistance. So, for example, if you currently have 15% damage resistance, you multiply the AP refill of Martial Mastery by 1.15x.
(At time of writing: unknown if damage resistance multiplier can exceed 1.80x)
- Does not scale with typical sources of Action Point gain (ex: CON's AP Gain bonus, Recovery, Inspiring Leader)



In my pursuit of more GF knowledge, I decided to figure out how the hell this violation of common sense feat works.

This was the GF used.


Here was the first test:


Each hit of the Survivor’s Wraps deals 2.5% of total HP and hits 10 times. As ACT counts Action Point gain in 1000s, we can deduce that each hit from the Survivor’s Wrap restored 0.625% of total AP (6.25% of a single % of Action Points) per Survivor’s Wrap hit.

Doing a basic arithmetic:
2.5/0.625=1/x
2.5x=0.625
x=0.25

This pattern holds true when I tried it on the torch in Tomb Exhume.


These torches deal 5% of maximum HP per hit. (fyi for potential testers: this has potential...)

In the above screenshot, the torches deal 1821.14 damage to the GF.
1821.14/36422 = 0.05000110, as expected to 5 decimal places of accuracy.

For each 5% of HP the GF lost, Martial Mastery restored 1.25% of Total Action Points.
1.25% total Action Points/5% of total HP = 0.25% of total Action Points per 1% HP lost.

As for how the damage resistance bonus affects the Martial Mastery bonus, it’s quite simple: it “stands in” as your Action Point gain multiplier. So, if I had 25% damage resistance, the game would multiply the Martial Mastery AP refill by 1.25x.

How I found this out was using United, which gives 5% damage resistance.


Besides using United, I was in Drowned Shore as well, so my HP was reduced to 32,155.

2295.46 was the HP I lost. Out of a maximum of 32,155 HP, that means I should have lose 7.01387% of total HP. Losing 7.01387% of max HP means I should have generated 1.78468% of total Action Points.

Seeing as I had United (5% damage resistance buff) but no other sources of damage resistance, I can multiply the AP generated by 1.05x. If you do that, the Action Points generated was 1.873920...which is exactly as calculated, correct to 4 decimal places.