Apr 23, 2005, 06:14 PM // 18:14 | #21 | |
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Apr 23, 2005, 06:16 PM // 18:16 | #22 | |
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Apr 23, 2005, 06:24 PM // 18:24 | #23 |
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Yeah, none of the skills that ignore armor - with a few exceptions like earth spells like Obs. Flame - say they bypass armor. As a general rule, most Mesmer and Monk skills do, any life stealing Necro skill does while direct damage Necro skill don't and, of course, Warrior, Ranger, and Elementalist skills generally don't as well.
It's just one of those things where it would be nice if the descriptions were more detailed. But if you read a lot of them - like me - you can generally tell. Armoring ignoring skills will say something along the lines of "target takes x damage" or target takes damage, target suffers damage target loses health, wording along those lines means you don't care about armor. While armor affected skills say something along the lines of "target foe is struck for x damage" or the skill strikes for damage, damage is inflicted, damage is dealt, wording along those lines means armor is a factor. Not 100% accurate but, then, neither are the skill descriptions.
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Apr 23, 2005, 06:46 PM // 18:46 | #24 |
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Ah I see, so their secretly forcing us to read! The school board must be in on this!
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Apr 23, 2005, 08:30 PM // 20:30 | #26 | |
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I can find the quote if I dug around a bit, but I'm sure someone here knows what I'm talking about. Edit: here it is from the Armor Selection Guide in the Guides section: "One important note however. No armour type effects Mesmer damage, Holy Damage, Dark or Chaos Damage. So damage from Mesmers, Smiters and Necros can be largely taken from the equation (with the exception of Death Magic's Deathly Chill and Deathly Swarm which uses cold (water) elemental damage). So when armour says +Elemental ??? it means exactly that ??? protection versus Elementalist damage only." I guess the answer is that "normal" armor does not ignore damage from these other types, but Elemental damage pluses, as is stated, effect only Elemental damage: makes sense. Last edited by Diamondspider; Apr 23, 2005 at 08:39 PM // 20:39.. |
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