)Originally posted by Pin
From 1.52 notes:
- All "clerical" (i.e. Healer, Shaman, Druid, Bard, Warden, Friar, Paladin, Hunters, Rangers and Cleric) baseline armor factor buffs are now assessed "outside the cap". In situations where you were at your armor factor cap, and had one of these buffs on you, you would have gotten no additional armor factor, but now with this change, you will. There is currently a display problem where this additional armor factor is not being displayed, but it is being assessed.
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And it is still the case that your display does not include base AF buffs above the cap - and the cap is exactly what you get from wearing 100%qua armour of your level (or double this amount for cloth wearers)... afaik, it has indeed been tested and shown that the baseline AF buffs are having an effect... However, I believe Paladins are the only ones whose baseline self AF buff actually correctly updates the display (though someone might correct me on this).
So, how much AF do you have? Well, if you are fully clothed you have 10*level*[absorb factor]*[quality] (assume all the armour is the same quality, or this gets messy due to factoring in the amount each armour piece covers, etc).
So, if you are a level 50 paladin in full MP plate, you have 10*50*1.35*1 = 675af before buffs.
The top pally self-shield delves at 56af. This will increase the pally's af by 56*1.25*1.35 = 94.5af. (The 1.25 factor is there on all spec spells, af included).
The top pally group af chant delves at 127af. This will increase the pally's af by 127*1.25*1.35 = 214.3af.
So, in MP plate, the level 50 pally should have 983.8af.
If he gets RR5, he is effectively level 51 in the above calc, so has 688.5af before buffs, giving a grand total of 997.3af.
Now, a Paladin can buy Mastery of the Arcane (if he should want to), and this effects AF buffs correctly, so with MotA3 for example, he could get to 1025.1AF... or 1043.6AF with MotA5
Then there is Soldier's Barricade, which I believe delves for ~200af (not exactly sure because I haven't seen it as no-one buys it), so he could see higher still (SB overwrites the spec pally chant, replacing it, so doesn't just stack on top)... (So raises AF on a plate-wearer by ~200*1.25*1.35).
So, generally, the top pally group AF chant will reduce damage taken by ~24%, whereas Soldier's Barricade would reduce damage taken by ~33% - which is not much of an improvement for a 10point active RA on a 30 minute timer.
Note: The 'diminishing returns' on AF are due to armour factor being a divisor in the damage equation, so the results are inherently non-linear. e.g. the difference between 1/10 and 1/20 is much bigger than the difference between 1/100 and 1/110...
Note: The delve values above are just what the game reports, and could be rounded off slightly, so exact numbers may be slightly off.
Note: If you are wearing cloth, your buffless AF caps at 5*level*[quality] (there used to be bugs where it capped at 10*...).
Originally posted by Pin
Now, a Paladin can buy Mastery of the Arcane (if he should want to), and this effects AF buffs correctly, so with MotA3 for example, he could get to 1025.1AF... or 1043.6AF with MotA5
Originally posted by samildanachh
how do you know all this stuff
). The only change in display i see is that with an AF buff my AF goes up to my RR5 cap but no higher. Perhaps one day they sort out this display issue.Originally posted by sorusi
seems like you cap AF w/o baseline AF buff if you have Masterpiece armor and RR5+.
i got 606 af and with af buff still 606
soo many things in daoc that i cant understand why they coded it that way