Damage Resistance and -Damage

Psyonico · 06-12-2009 12:06 PM

Ok, so I know that Damage Resistance resists damage debuffs, my question is: how much?

Basically, I'm leveling an Ice/Therm corrupter and will be getting Heat Exhaustion soon(TM)

Heat Exhaustion has a 50% damage debuff, which is sizeable, but what does that mean when I try to use it against Statesman who does mostly smashing damage, and since he's /invul has a large resistance to smashing

Is this a 1-to-1 thing, or is it on some sort of a curve?

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Sarrate · 06-12-2009 12:15 PM

Resistance resists damage debuffs as much as they resist damage.
Ex:
10% res vs a 50% dmg debuff resulsts in a 45% dmg debuff
50% res vs a 50% dmg debuff results in a 25% dmg debuff
90% res vs a 50% dmg debuff results in a 5% dmg debuff

An equation would look something like this:
FinalDamage = InitialDamage * (1 - ((1-Resistance) * DamageDebuff))

Don't forget the purple patch goes in there too, I think it gets applied at the end like this:
FinalDamage = InitialDamage * (1 - ((1-Resistance) * DamageDebuff)) * PurplePatchEffectiveness

But don't quote me on that, I may be remembering it wrong.

[edit: Oh, if the target has damage buffs of some sort, they'd be added, like this:
FinalDamage = InitialDamage * (1 + DmgBuffs - ((1-Resistance) * DamageDebuff))

Luminara · 06-12-2009 12:18 PM

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Ok, so I know that Damage Resistance resists damage debuffs, my question is: how much?

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The amount of the resistance.

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Heat Exhaustion has a 50% damage debuff, which is sizeable, but what does that mean when I try to use it against Statesman who does mostly smashing damage, and since he's /invul has a large resistance to smashing

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Again, the amount of resistance determines the resistance to the debuff. If Statesman has 85% Smashing resistance, then the 50% debuff will be reduced to 7.5% (15% of 50). If Statesman happened to have a Psi attack, but no Psi resistance, the full debuff would be applied.