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Is the starforge nerf retroactive?
Is the starforge nerf retroactive?
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What all does Imbalanced Guard's "Maximum Damage Reduction For Any Type is 50%" do.
'Cause if that counts resists, it's worthless. And if it effects all other sources of reduced damage taken as well as armor, it'll be less good (but still highly usable!) than if it only effects armors DR.
"[TYPE] Damage Reduction" is only the reduction that comes from Armour, and sorces of "additional [TYPE] Damage Reduction". Damage Reduction for each type is ususally capped at 90%.
Currently, there are sources of additional Physical Damage Reduction (most notably this is one of the base benefits players get for having Endurance Charges), but no sources of additional Damage Reduction for any other type. Armour by default only applies Physical Damage Reduction, but this patch introduces ways to change that, and thus the keystone has to account for those.
No other mechanics are Damage Reduction. Resistances are not Damage Reduction. "x% reduced Damage taken" is not Damage Reduction (although the name of the mechanic is unfortunately similar).
Related to this keystone: what does the word "Defend" mean, mechanically? Is that new phrasing for the concept of being hit, or is it something more specific?
We needed a verb to describe using armour to mitigate a hit. Since armour is a defence, "Defend" seemed appropriate.
Sounds like this keystone is good for low to medium investment armor builds to defend against big hits since double armor effect (not value, right?) is really strong against big hits but the trade off is that you likely reduce your phys reduction against small hits.
Really hard to guess breakpoints on this without running the armor calculation but it seems very good for early armor builds or just a brainless pickup if you're not scaling armor and it's nearby.
edit: Wording is different from our current "10% chance when Hit for double Armour effect" mods so now I'm just more confused. Doubling your armor number isn't very good AFAIK.
double armor effect (not value, right?)
It treats your armour value as double the actual value.
This mechanic already existed in PoE, but previously had a confusing and ambiguous description saying "double armour effect", which meant "uses the effect of doubled armour", but was easy to misunderstand as "doubles the effect of your current armour". This mechanic was already being renamed for that reason before this keystone was developed, and the existing source of the stat will match the new description on the keystone.
Hmmm, what about "less damage taken" on Fortify, is that a form of damage reduction in this sense?
"No other mechanics" means no other mechanics.
The only existing sources of Damage Reduction in the current version of PoE are: * Physical Damage Reduction from Armour * additional Physical Damage Reduction (from endurance charges and several other sources).
3.11.0 extends Damage Reduction from Armour to other types. There are no sources of additional Damage Reduction for non-physical types.
Why not call it damage suppression or some other synonym that would not be confused with reduced damage taken?
Edit: or rename “reduced damage taken” to “surpresses %x damage”?
This was considered, but Physical Damage Reduction has been in the game for a long time with that description and changing it would involve a lot of changes to stuff players are familiar with that would thus create other confusion. It hasn't traditionally caused huge amounts of confusion with regard to reducced physical damage taken. It's definitely an option we'll continue to consider moving forward.
Does that mean the double Armour Effect you can get on gear will still be available? I take it they work the same, so grabbing both wouldn't make sense.
E: nvm. I see you already answered.
Yes, the keystone uses the existing mechanic, and the description used on the keystone is the new description used for other sources of the mechanic as well. The description intentionally mirrors the one for chance to deal double damage.
Since the keytsone explicitly gives 100% chance, getting more chance from other sources is not useful.
So, can I use Transcendence + Imbalanced Guard and get the following results?:
- 70% elemental resists applies first to elemental damage
- then remaining 30% elemental damage can be mitigated up to 50% by using armour (which value would be doubled from Imbalanced Guard)
- physical hits would be reduced up to 50% by endurance charges and mitigated further with f.e. flask?
That all sounds about right but I am very tired so appologise in advance if I missed something.
Wait...wasn't there supposed to be patch notes? What is this thing?
Patch Notes come out tomorrow.
Will you guys change the notables available on https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2783927 to reflect the changed values/removed passives from the clusters?
Good question! I'll find out.
when is the skill gem reveal ?
thanks
Day after tomorrow. Thursday NZ/Wednsay USA
Mark, can you clarify that if the hit is comprised of multiple elements (i.e. due to a damage shift from a talisman or another source), and I also have Transcendence allocated, the same armor value will be applied to each? I.e. if the hit is 5000 damage after resistances, of which 50% is fire and 50% is lightning, and I have 10000 armor, it will be 2500 vs. 20000 armor for fire and 2500 vs. 20000 armor for lightning? And if so, is this really okay, balance-wise?
if the hit is 5000 damage after resistances, of which 50% is fire and 50% is lightning, and I have 10000 armor, it will be 2500 vs. 20000 armor for fire and 2500 vs. 20000 armor for lightning?
Yes.