Return of Reckoning

Nameless wrote: Thu Feb 20, 2025 12:12 pm

Sinisterror wrote: Thu Feb 20, 2025 10:40 am

leftayparxoun wrote: Thu Feb 20, 2025 9:40 am

Reminder that, among other things, the new Ability Rework changed Piercing Bite to work additively instead of multiplicatively like before:


This means that when stacking high Weapon Skill (like in orvr) the 25% additive bonus is better than the old 50% multiplicative bonus:

Mara with 60% armor penetration from WS and items + Piercing Bite (Old/New)
vs
Enemy with 3300 (75%) armor

• Old Piercing Bite
  Physical Mitigation = 75% x ( 1 - 0.60) x (1 - 0.50) = 75% x 0.40 x 0.50 = 15%
  Damage Taken by them = 85%

• New Piercing Bite
  Physical Mitigation = 75% x ( 1 - 0.60 - 0.25) = 75% x 0.15 = 11.25%
  Damage Taken by them = 88.75%

Damage increase from this change = (88.75 - 85)/85 = 4.4%
It will always be better if you have/had more than 50% armor penetration (from WS, items and after reducing it by the enemy's reduced armor penetration) and the difference is more pronounced the more Armor the target has/had.

Im aware how it works. I was more refering spesifically Marauder Piercing Bite changed to everything even AA dmg. Before when Piercing Bite was bugged and affected everything +Auto Attacks 50% Armour ignore was pretty OP but 25% Feels Okay.

He want to tell you that because of new stacking rule 25% PB is better than old 50% PB when you stack armor pen. So 25 should be more op that 50 if effect all skills. And you consider old 50% being op so...