Curse

Mared Text · Jul 13, 2005, 11:19 PM // 23:19

I am somewhat new to this game and as a primary necro I have been trying to get some answers to questions regarding various aspects of the game, as of yet I have been unsuccessful in-game therefore I have come to these boards in search of answers.

My first questions is in regards to health regeneration and degeneration. The way that health regenerates in this game is after you have been out of combat for a short while your health starts to regenerate, the longer you are out of combat the faster your health regenerates untill it is going at an extremely fast rate. My question about this is wether the health regeneration is exponential or linear in increase. For example, is 5 regeneration marks the equivelant of 5 times 1 regeneration mark? Or is the increase exponential where 5 arrows is much faster than 5 times 1 regen mark.

Also in regards to health degeneration does this function the same way? Is it linear or exponential?

Another question regarding health regen/degen, how much health per second is regended or degened with 1 mark? I have been trying to compare the necro ability "life siphon" and other dots to dirrect damage abilities such as vampiric gaze, shadow strike and vile touch, unfortunately I have no way of comparing them when I don't know how much damage per second life siphon does with the full 3 marks active.

Questions about armor. How much damage does 1 point of armor negate? I understand that armor affects spells as well as physical damage in this game. Does armor negate the same amount of each or are they different? If so whats the difference and whats the exact spects on how they work. Does armor affect life degen ablities or does it only work vs dirrect damage? Does it function differently depending on the type of magic of physical attack that is being used?

Last but not least, I was playing in a pvp arena last night and someone used an ability that caused some massive health degeneration to me, the icon displayed looked like a clenched fist with the fingers tward me with blood coming out of the fist and running down the wrist. It ended to fast for me to move my mouse up to see what it was (i was kind of busy fighting) if anyone can tell me what this ability is and what class uses it I would appreciate it.

I have many more questions but I guess this will have to do for now, thx alot.

Skrilling · Jul 14, 2005, 12:00 AM // 00:00

To answer health regen/ degen, each "strike" give/takes 2 health pts per second. Each energy regen strike gives 1/3 of a pt of energy per second.

That skill was Blood is Power, a necro spell that increased your energy regen by up to 5 strikes (or more beyond 12 blood magic) for 10 seconds, probably cast by your ally. It would have a gold trim around it since its an elite skill.

As for skills that armor affects, it is calculated as such: damage is multiplied by some form of e^-(armor class) with armor 60 resulting the damage that is displayed on the skill or weapon. For example, if a fireball says i will do 80 damage to a target, and your target has 60 armor vs fire, that target takes 60 damage. If that target has 100 armor vs fire, they take 40 damage. Damage reduction is a straight number based on how good your reduction is.

Since you are a necro, many of your skills are not affected by armor class. Anything that says "steal health", or "target takes x damage" without specifying the damage type is not affected by armor class. Example of spells of this nature are vampiric gaze, spitfull spirit, or signet of agony. the only example of a skill that is affected by armor in the necro line at the moment is deathly swarm (cold damage).

Excer · Jul 14, 2005, 06:12 PM // 18:12

actually, i think u were bleeding? sry if this sounds stupid, but that sounds like the description =P