Official guide for game mechanics?
Game mechanics evolve over time. This is the way. When kits change, the in-game kit description is updated accordingly. When a game mechanic changes, we get a dev post and/or update release notes. ...
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I’m aware of that one. Was just about to post about it myself.
There are several ways in-game to find descriptions of buffs/debuffs (easiest is probably in battle by tapping the buff/debuff icons over a unit, which beats trying to remember that Sabine was the first toon with armor shred or that deathmark was introduced in the rancor raid) but that’s not always the same as their mechanics. The in-battle description sometimes fall short of being meaningful description (looking at you target lock but kit description for various characters do cover that).
This is a pretty good resource for buff/debuff mechanics by the way:
https://gaming-fans.com/star-wars-goh/swgoh-resources/buffs-debuffs-list/#google_vignette
But it, for example, doesn’t touch on the recent changes to advantage.
This was a great post the devs did a while back on protection up and max health. It would be great to have a single definitive source covering more topics like this.
https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/discussion/202854/protection-up-explanation
And if you want to know something more obscure like whether Darth malak under Darth Nihilus lead gets a double boost to max health from losing protection, where do you look for that? Common sense dictates no assuming the affects occur sequentially but how can you know for sure other than painstakingly attempting to calculate dmg taken before Malak first bonus turn is taken?
There are several ways in-game to find descriptions of buffs/debuffs (easiest is probably in battle by tapping the buff/debuff icons over a unit, which beats trying to remember that Sabine was the first toon with armor shred or that deathmark was introduced in the rancor raid) but that’s not always the same as their mechanics. The in-battle description sometimes fall short of being meaningful description (looking at you target lock but kit description for various characters do cover that).
This is a pretty good resource for buff/debuff mechanics by the way:
https://gaming-fans.com/star-wars-goh/swgoh-resources/buffs-debuffs-list/#google_vignette
But it, for example, doesn’t touch on the recent changes to advantage.
This was a great post the devs did a while back on protection up and max health. It would be great to have a single definitive source covering more topics like this.
https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/discussion/202854/protection-up-explanation
And if you want to know something more obscure like whether Darth malak under Darth Nihilus lead gets a double boost to max health from losing protection, where do you look for that? Common sense dictates no assuming the affects occur sequentially but how can you know for sure other than painstakingly attempting to calculate dmg taken before Malak first bonus turn is taken?
