Lvl 11 Stone Barrier

MarcA - Harshlands wrote: »

sage stone barrier was my very first sage skill i got it as a pk drop from some archer at 8X

Borsuc - Raging Tide wrote: »

God dammit why do people think of subtracting reduction percentages b:surrender

The difference between 50% and 75% is not "15%" in terms of effectiveness and survival. It is double survival. You get 1/4 damage reduction compared to 1/2... 400 would hit as 100, meaning you die twice as hard as 50% and four times as hard as 0%.

On the other hand... the difference between 50% and 0% is the same as 50% and 75%... double survival.

Just for extra thought, the difference between 75% and 100% is not 25% survival... it is infinite. You are immune to damage. (impossible in game of course, max is 90% or 1/10 damage)

Going from 0% to 3% is **** I agree... going from 80% to 83% is awesome.

Adroit - Lost City wrote: »

You are doing the math just fine, I think Borsuc's point is that saying 3% reduction means nothing without its context. So if you had 0% and went up to 3%, you would take 3% less damage.. but if you were at 94% reduction and went to 97% reduction (not possible in game) you'd be taking 50% less damage. That extra 1-2% reduction could be fairly significant if your reduction is already high :P

Thrasymachus - Sanctuary wrote: »

You are confusing yourself I think, but math can sometimes turn one around.

Look at it like this:

If you had 50% resistance and got hit with a 100 damage hit before resistance, then you would lose 50 hp. Now if you add a piece of gear or something to gain 5%, you now have 55% resistance. If you got hit with that same blow again, you would now lose 45 hp. The difference between 45 and 50 is 5, and 5 is 10% of 50. So adding a 5% resistance if you're already at 50% means you take 10% less damage, not the 5% it's name suggests.

In your case, of 55% originally, you would suffer a blow of 100 damage with 45 hp lost. By adding 3%, you would now suffer a loss of only 42 hp, improving your damage reduction by 6 2/3%. In the case of the wizard with 94% reduction, he would suffer that 100 damage by losing 6 hp. When he increases his resistance to 97%, he would lose only 3 hp, improving his damage reduction by 50%.

These proportions remain true no matter what the amount of damage dealt. If our impossible latter wizard is hit with a 10,000 damage blow, he would suffer 600 lost hp at 94%. By adding only 3% resistance, he halves his loss to a mere 300hp.