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old.Elrond
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I worked this out, need verification if its true....
A shadowblade with capped resists will have 26% slash for example, lower this to 16% as leather is slash vulnerable. Now a caster can have 26% slash resist, then another 10% absorb from their melee buffer..hence 36% slash as cloth is neutral to all..therefore the caster has 20% more melee resist than the shadowblade? This can go for all damage types too so they will basically have 36% resist to all melee damage which is 10% more resist to crush and equal for thrust as sb is resistant.
also, when self-buffed the caster also has only about 40-50 AF less than an assasin which isn't much...
This would seem to explain why I often melee other sb's in duel for more than I do casters, and also why self buffed, well kitted out casters from alb/hib are so damn hard and I only style on them for about 170.
Any comment? Have I gone grossly wrong at some point?
A shadowblade with capped resists will have 26% slash for example, lower this to 16% as leather is slash vulnerable. Now a caster can have 26% slash resist, then another 10% absorb from their melee buffer..hence 36% slash as cloth is neutral to all..therefore the caster has 20% more melee resist than the shadowblade? This can go for all damage types too so they will basically have 36% resist to all melee damage which is 10% more resist to crush and equal for thrust as sb is resistant.
also, when self-buffed the caster also has only about 40-50 AF less than an assasin which isn't much...
This would seem to explain why I often melee other sb's in duel for more than I do casters, and also why self buffed, well kitted out casters from alb/hib are so damn hard and I only style on them for about 170.
Any comment? Have I gone grossly wrong at some point?