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Blue Damage Numbers

culmenationculmenation Member Posts: 0 Arc User
edited December 2013 in The Academy
Hi, im running the omega set.
And when i shoot some thing with shields I notice some blue colored numbers going up.
My question is what are these numbers exactly?

They are different from the white number for teammate damage, and the yellow for my regular damage.
I'm using the omega set... so are these blue numbers additional shield drain?
I notice they are regularly higher then my regular damage
Or are they my damage + shield drain?
or something else?
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  • celavazmycelavazmy Member Posts: 128 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    i have only 2 numbers appearing; first white (it seems bit blue, but it isn't blue) and second yellow numbers. White numbers are the damage against shields and yellow against hull.
    Are 3 numbers appearing for you?
  • anazondaanazonda Member Posts: 8,399 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    It's shield only-damage.
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  • culmenationculmenation Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    celavazmy wrote: »
    i have only 2 numbers appearing; first white (it seems bit blue, but it isn't blue) and second yellow numbers. White numbers are the damage against shields and yellow against hull.
    Are 3 numbers appearing for you?

    Im using the omega set which adds shield drain to your attacks. I see three numbers some of the time.
    anazonda wrote: »
    It's shield only-damage.
    So it is shield drain?
    The card on my weapon says something like -33 shield drain on all energy weapon attacks... but most of those are significantly higher then 33.
    So is the card just wrong ? it wouldn't be the first time.
  • voporakvoporak Member Posts: 5,621 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    I think when someone in a Jem'hadar ship uses the Dominion Tactical Interface (or whatever it's called, the one from the carrier), blue numbers appear. I believe this shows the damage going towards the 15,000 needed to take the vulnerable subsystem offline.

    But then again, you'd need a Jem'hadar ship with the console and using it to get those color numbers, so I'm not sure if that's what you're seeing.
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  • tc10btc10b Member Posts: 1,549 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    culmenation wrote: »
    Im using the omega set which adds shield drain to your attacks. I see three numbers some of the time.


    So it is shield drain?
    The card on my weapon says something like -33 shield drain on all energy weapon attacks... but most of those are significantly higher then 33.
    So is the card just wrong ? it wouldn't be the first time.
    Whatever your DPS of the weapon is it is divided between the shield and the hull of the enemy minus resists etc.

    If your opponent has a shield facing, the dps will always be done to the shields first and the hull second (bleed) The yellow numbers indicate the hull damage dealt and the white numbers are the shield damage dealt.

    The in game parser isn't very good, so the numbers might seems a little off from what you observe.
  • zuehlzuehl Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited December 2013
    celavazmy wrote: »
    i have only 2 numbers appearing; first white (it seems bit blue, but it isn't blue) and second yellow numbers. White numbers are the damage against shields and yellow against hull.
    Are 3 numbers appearing for you?

    Not sure that the set I'm using affects the color of the numbers I see, but I use the Assimilated Set from the Omega Rep System.

    My question was and what brought me to this thread was:

    While in combat I see two colors of numbers, yellow and white. What does the larger yellow font mean?

    I have had non-crit hits in the small yellow font as well as the large and I have had crit hits in the small font as well as the large.

    As for the white numbers, I have always assumed that was team/ally damage as that is what I sometimes use to "find" the action since I didn't invest a lot of skill in sensors. I have seen white number before attacking a target, so I doubt it is recording my damage to their shields.

    **Edit** Okay, upon paying closer attention; I do see the two different numbers scrolling up during my attack of a target. That still leaves me wondering what the different sizes of fonts mean. If the blue represents shield damage and yellow represents hull damage, what does the large yellow number mean?
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