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kaeajakaeaja Member Posts: 517 Arc User
I was reading something in Zone chat that caught my eye. Something about having a 120% chance to cause shields to have a 99% damage resistance to either all or specific kinds of damage. Anyone know how this is achieved? I asked someone I had been talking to at the time and he read that it was a bug that was fixed. Could anyone add more to this please?

Basically id like to know if this is really a bug or legit, cause it sounds like a bug, though again it would help to know how its done.
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  • willamsheridanwillamsheridan Member Posts: 1,189 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    120% sounds impossible. Even 100% would mean you get the resistance from the first hit so you would always have it and no one would be able to kill you except maybe with radiation that ignores shields(but there is no weapon that has such a high radiation Damage to kill someone only with that) or maybe Tetryon if the proc still reduces your shields and then you woudd just have your unprotected hull. Still that would be a totally overpowered ability

    Sounds to me like someone got confused with the Borg 3 piece set Ability:
    Set 3: Reactive Deflection

    Passive
    1% Chance when hit to reduce all incoming damage by approximately 99% for 2 seconds. This cannot occur more frequently than once every 30 seconds.

    not 120% but 1% for 2 seconds. Where the 0 comes from , i do not know
  • azurianstarazurianstar Member Posts: 6,985 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    My guess is you being an engineer and using RSF, Shield 3, TSS2, and someone casting Extend Shields 2.
  • l30p4rdl30p4rd Member Posts: 334 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    The problem here is you heard it in zone chat. Whatever you hear there take with a pinch of salt as it is usually bull manure.

    I think someone was pulling peoples legs or was misinformed themselves.
  • mimey2mimey2 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    Shields, with only a few very small exceptions are also capped at 75% resist (like hull/health). Only a few things can get around that. Like on the ground, you can briefly obtain 99% resists on shields with an engineer and a certain DOFF for example.
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  • altechachanaltechachan Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    l30p4rd wrote: »
    The problem here is you heard it in zone chat. Whatever you hear there take with a pinch of salt as it is usually bull manure.

    I think someone was pulling peoples legs or was misinformed themselves.

    I'm with this guy. Never trust what you hear in Zone chat.
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  • mjarbarmjarbar Member Posts: 2,084 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    Like everyone else take what you read in zone chat with a pinch of salt.

    However I know that the Vesta pack if you combine all three consoles create an inpenetrable shield, so it is possible they were thinking of this. Now along with other abilities and traits may be able to boost that up some more, but as I don't have the Vesta pack (yet!) I couldn't say for sure.
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  • szerontzurszerontzur Member Posts: 2,724 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    Hard to say, there are a handful of things that make you extremely resistant to damage like the D'ridthau phasing device and Solanae 4-set metaphasic shields. There's no way to get that kind of resistance permanently though, to my knowledge(which is a good thing).
  • kaeajakaeaja Member Posts: 517 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    mjarbar wrote: »
    Like everyone else take what you read in zone chat with a pinch of salt.

    However I know that the Vesta pack if you combine all three consoles create an inpenetrable shield, so it is possible they were thinking of this. Now along with other abilities and traits may be able to boost that up some more, but as I don't have the Vesta pack (yet!) I couldn't say for sure.

    I hope you enjoy the Vesta, its been an amazing ship ever since I got it and I indeed use the three piece set :3
  • groomofweirdgroomofweird Member Posts: 1,045 Arc User
    edited May 2014
    I have a voth bastion and as I'm not online (on my crapberry infront of the tv) I forget the stats on the shield console, but it does give you an insane damage resist over a short time it really does make you near invincible for a short time, but it halves your damage output and slays your movement speed if I remember correctly. But that would be something comparable to what you heard.
    Though 120%? I forget the stats offhand but that does sound a little... Off.
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