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rsy17's avatar
5 years ago

Can amor/resistance be reduced below 0 by armor/resistance penetration?

After some messed up stuff and cleaning up, here is the third try:

Let's say you have a lvl 85 char with 20% armor, which would be a flat value of about 160 (637.5*20/(100-20)).
And let's say someone attacks with 10k dmg and 200 armor penetration.

Will the flat armor be reduced to about -40 aka -6%, so he would actually do 10.6k damage?
Or will the armor just be reduced to 0 and the attacker does 10k damage?

I couldn't find any answer for that yet. I got an answer from Bulldog 1205, who thinks it should not be reduced below 0, at least he hasn't seen/encountered that yet.

6 Replies

  • QuertySW's avatar
    QuertySW
    Seasoned Rookie
    5 years ago
    I think that like protection, it now cant be taken below 0
  • crzydroid's avatar
    crzydroid
    Hero (Retired)
    5 years ago
    My thinking is it will not go below 0. There is no way it would increase your damage output, or you could just stack up armor shred for huge hits.
  • hey crzydroid, thanks for the answer. yes that's what somebody else told me too, so I assume this at the moment when doing some calculations :)
  • I think Crit Avoidance and Accuracy are the only stats that can go negative.
  • crzydroid's avatar
    crzydroid
    Hero (Retired)
    5 years ago
    "Jarvind;c-2203298" wrote:
    I think Crit Avoidance and Accuracy are the only stats that can go negative.


    Well, I think that almost all stats can go negative, but I should say I don't think armor can go *functionally* negative, in that it won't subtract less than 0 from incoming damage. I think armor CAN go negative in the sense that if someone stacked Armor Up or unique ability stacking armor on top of a bunch of armor shreds, you could still end up with no armor. I just don't think negative armor would actually *increase* damage beyond what the attacking character's calculations were. Though it's just a guess but I don't think I've seen any evidence of it. A raid would be the place to test.

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