Base potency 100
I’ve heard a lot of smart players suggest potency starts at 100. But that’s inconsistent with anecdotal experience and with abilities or modifiers based on potency. Does anyone have documentation tha...
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A characters potency is what is displayed on their character stats and any in battle changes. There’s no min starting point.
To be clear, if the trigger is met for a debuff to be applied, then it will be applied unless the character evades the attack or resists the debuff. This could be where people think there’s a base 100% potency. L
Potency is subtracted from tenacity to get a character’s chance to resist the debuff. So 100% tenacity minus 50% potency is a 50% chance to resist.
Keep in mind, Tenacity has a min value of 15%. So if your potency reduces their tenacity below 15% then they get the minimum 15% chance to resist. The only way to remove that 15% base chance is with an unresistable debuff.
It's funny to compare your response to the one below. I don't think either of you are wrong. But you represent exactly what I'm trying to clear up.
My information is based on datamined information from near the beginning of the game. Those posts all say the same thing. It’s tenacity minus potency. There is nothing added to potency. The only modifier in the calc is the min 15% chance. It seems like the reason the 100% potency idea comes up is because people try to explain the mechanisms as if the debuff is checking to see if it lands. Basically from the debuffs point of view. My understanding is that the check is from the characters point of view. Can it avoid the debuff. From that point of view, there is only one tenacity check. And coding wise it’s very simple to set a min value to any check, so it doesn’t require two checks. It’s one calculation to get the value needed and then a “roll” to see if it’s successfully avoided.
All of this is second hand info though. I did none of the research and am just repeating what others who did the research said. There’s an article on https://gaming-fans.com/2017/05/understanding-potency-tenacity/#:~:text=PsychoPoet,%20author%20of%20our%20popular%20speed%20optimization,%20offense/CC/CD,
you’re saying what he says here I think. But again, this is not documentation because CG hasn’t given its blessing. I’m wanting this because I don’t think we have all of the information and it’s important for how things work.
It’s based off information data mined from the game. You can see the development of the formula of you look through Reddit. I don’t believe CG ever released any specifics about how it works, but they seldom give details on how the game actually calculates anything.
For my purposes, it’s accurate enough. Much of the information we have on game calculations came through datamining and testing by players. I can understand wanting CG to give details, but without that I’ll trust this tested information versus speculation from people.
