"Crowny;c-1261249" wrote:
But with a (non-zeta'd) DN lead, he is supposed to get 100% health steal, so I figured he should regain health when he annihilates. I guess since he hits the rancor for 99,999 damage, I imagined him replenishing a lot of health if he annihilates a high health+protection character with the health steal from his lead. But it seems like the game just treats it like a zero-damage instant kill. Zero damage = zero health steal.
That seems to be how it works, yeah. The Annihilate isn't damage. It simply deletes the enemy character from the battle, and the damage to a raid boss is an exception to the rule.
Under any other circumstances (not a raid boss), Nihilus' max health, his potential health, increases on Annihilate but his current health percentage remains the same. So he actually does gain health, but the amount gained depends heavily on his current health. If Nihilus is at full health when he Annihilates a tank, he gains a huge amount of health. If he's almost dead when he Annihilates, he gains virtually nothing (besides making it slightly harder to chip away at the little health he has remaining) unless somebody gives him a big heal (Bariss or Chirrut style) soon afterwards.
Just as a hypothetical example with easy, round numbers: If Nihilus has 30,000 max health and he Annihilates a tank that has 30,000 max health, Nihilus will now have 60,000 max health.
Nihilus' current health will depend on the amount of health he had just prior to the Annihilate. If he had 6,000 health (20% of max) before, he is still at 20% and now has 12,000.
If he had 30,000 health (100% of max) before, he is still at 100% and now has 60,000.
The fact that his health bar may not appear different is purely cosmetic. It's an intentional limitation on how many dividers the game can display in the health bar. After DN uses Annihilate, the health bar will diminish by smaller percentages when he gets hit by damage. If he manages to use Annihilate more than once in a single battle, you will really notice that he barely seems to be getting hurt by subsequent damage. As long as that's happening it's functioning correctly, which is all that really matters.
