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quickdraw74
Member Posts: 104 Arc User
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Probably going to be a stupid question, but I'm going to ask it. Will any of the percentages apply to skills that have 0 points spent in them?
Example: You have 0 points spent on shield hardness. If you add 4% to it, does it do anything for the skill? Last time I checked 4% of zero is zero.
I just don't want to waste a perk point on a skill that will never benefit from it.
Example: You have 0 points spent on shield hardness. If you add 4% to it, does it do anything for the skill? Last time I checked 4% of zero is zero.
I just don't want to waste a perk point on a skill that will never benefit from it.
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protoneous
Member Posts: 3,174 Arc User
Yes. Zero plus anything is no longer zero.quickdraw74 wrote: »Probably going to be a stupid question, but I'm going to ask it. Will any of the percentages apply to skills that have 0 points spent in them?
Adding 4% shield hardness is the same as adding +20 to the skill. You end up with harder shields so no waste.Example: You have 0 points spent on shield hardness. If you add 4% to it, does it do anything for the skill? Last time I checked 4% of zero is zero.
I just don't want to waste a perk point on a skill that will never benefit from it.5 -
tom61sto
Member Posts: 3,676 Arc User
All Endeavor Perks are useful without needing Skills in that area. Shield Hardness percentage is a negation of incoming damage, not a multiplication of your existing Shield Hardness Skill.5
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Um you do realize 4% of zero is still zero? IDK if everything that's on the endeavor list has a base value above zero; but if so, yeah, anything that starts at zero without a skill point added to it would most likely remain at a zero.
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I know..... right. I'm just going to apply it and see. Outside earth space dock and on a patrol mission it says 0 in the skill right now.
Honestly the only reason I asked is because this game has weird math. Just got back into playing again. Tried searching for answers, but found none. Even if it doesn't add a bonus to the skill I'll eventually be left no choice but to take them..... 3 years from now..lol.
Didn't do anything. Not that I'm disappointed..got enough HP in shield to take a beating. Even checked the resistance numbers they look unchanged, but I'm assuming those are from hull armor. Who knows.....I just thought I'd ask.
In a related question would other or any endeavor related stat increases show up here such as CrtH and D ? Am way behind on them myself.
Perks for Crit H and D for Space will show up in the percentages on the Ship window. There's more exceptions than rules when it comes to this stuff, such as all the stuff expressed in points named the same as a modern Skill will show up in the Ship screen, but non-standard stuff like Control Resist will not. Edit: Just realized that about the only thing named the same as a regular Skill is Kit Performance on ground. Some stuff will show up somewhere on the Ship/Character screen, like armor points coming out as the resist percents (after going through a convoluted calculation) but some there's no display for.
No problem.