Originally Posted by Dascocad

On some of the Assassin's Armors, it says, "Reduces Deep Wound Duration by X" Does that mean...?????

Originally Posted by JR-

Funnily enough that means it reduces the duration of deep wound.

Originally Posted by Dascocad

On some of the Assassin's Armors, it says, "Reduces Deep Wound Duration by X" Does that mean...?????

Originally Posted by fb2000

I meant not as a total shutdown, but a severe reduction in efficiency, be it a Guardian, ward vs melee, hex, blind/cripple, you get the idea. ritualist spirits are another way to cripple up the dmg dealing capability of our beloved warriors, in a rather annoying way (spammz0rn spirits 2 aggro away)

as for the saccing skills, my point was, if Deep wound wouldnt reduce hp based on the Max hp you have, why would saccing do the same? hmm kinda hard to explain what I mean, but its neither here, nor there, nothings gonna be changed regarding such basic engine elements imo

Originally Posted by Warskull

A few people have mentioned the 1 hp thing and this can be somewhat complex to explain. There is no such thing as free health or energy in guild wars. Whenever something increases your max health or energy it increases your current health or energy by the same amount. Whenever something reduces your max health or energy it reduces your current health or energy also.

This is best seen with endure pain. If you are at 50/500 HP and use endure pain to gain 300HP you are brought up to 350/800 HP. Over the course of endure pain you take damage and are dropped to 100/800 HP. When endure pain runs out you lose both 300 max health and 300 current health. This would take you to -200/500 HP. When in negative health your HP always displays as 1 and any hit will kill you. You have to be healed out of your negative health. So if you monk infuses you for 250 HP when he sees your health bar plummet. You are healed for 250, but 200 of that resolves the negative health taking you to 50/500 HP.

Deep wound is the same way. Since the attack damage is applied before the deep wound it is possible for the attack to not kill you, but the 20% HP reduction from deep wound to push you into negative health.

Originally Posted by LouAl

Side Note: I am not sure whether a spell like Healing Breeze, Watchful Spirit, Mending, etc will kill you or not, I have never tested it.

Originally Posted by BhaalSpawn

In reference to that whole necro sacrificing skills here's the explanation: Example. Order of the Vampire costs 10% hp to cast so say instead of the percentage being taken from your overall hp; say it was taken from your current hp, as the change to DW would suggest. So a 100hp necro would take 10dmg and be at 90/100 then casts it again, but this time it does 9dmg instead of 10dmg leaving him at 81/100. The problem arises when said necro's hp falls to/below 4/100. You cannot take 10% from 4 the game would round it off and you'd still be at 4/100 making it impossible for said necro to kill himself; which on a 55 necro would be a scary thing indeed.

I hope this clears that up.

Originally Posted by lucifair

this is incorrect...when it comes to saccing health lets say using ur example of a 100/100 necro saccing 10% health constantly...he would keep losing 10 health every sac cuz thats 10% of his MAXIMUM health...now say he dies and gets resed wit only 30/30 health...each time he sacs he would lose 3 health. Also they always round up when it comes to saccing for how much damage u take...ie a guy wit 12 health max would sac 2 health, so a guy wit 4/100 would sac himself to death.