A couple of random questions...

Got a few questions here that are completely unrelated. Here you go.

1) Say I set my difficulty to treat me as a four man group solo. With the same difficulty, I make a team of six people. Does this treat the team as a ten-man group? Or will it treat the team normally as a six person group?

2) I have a toggle that grants me defense to Smashing damage. I go and fight an enemy that does smashing and energy damage at the same time with his attacks. He attacks me with a smashing/energy damage attack, and my smashing defense rolls in my favor. Do I only block the Smashing portion of the attack, or do I still negate the whole attack?

Bonus) Did anybody else notice on the new difficulty options villain side, the fateweaver says she's a part of SRSLY? Goes to show the devs have a sense of humor. =D Go talk to a Fateweaver and read the opening dialog to see what I mean.

1) I think it will treat you as the higher of your actual team size or your difficulty team size; however, it might just add them and cap at 9 (like an 8-man team on Tenacious/Unyielding before I16). I'm not certain.

2) The whole attack. However, the fact that the attack deals Smashing damage not not necessarily mean it is tagged as Smashing_Attack (which is what allows your Smashing Defense to apply). For example, Fire Ball deals both Fire and Smashing damage. However, Fire Ball is typed as Fire_Attack, AOE_Attack, and your Smashing Defense wouldn't apply against it at all.

Also, only your highest applicable defense applies, it doesn't roll each defense separately.




Also: those aren't random questions!
For a random question, let's say...
3) Turnip?

To further expound on question #2....

It's important to keep Defense and Resistance in mind when figuring out damage.

Defense determines whether you got hit or not. If an incoming attack has three components (e.g., smashing/energy/AoE), then if you have any Defense against any one or more of those components, you take the highest Defense number, and that will be the one that determines if you got hit.

If you do get hit, then Resistance comes into play. If you have different values of Resistance versus smashing and energy, then each Resistance value is used against each component. Smashing Resistance reduces the amount of damage of the smashing damage and Energy Resistance reduces the amount of damage of the energy damage.

So, in short, with Defense, the highest applicable Defense value is used.

With Resistance, each applicable Resistance value is used.

3) Cabbage!

One more question.

Whenever I join a team, this window pops up asking me if the level changes are okay with the Super SK'ing feature. This window pops up every time I zone while on a team. How do I get this window to go away? I found two slidebars having to do with auto-accepting level changes above or below XX, but I honestly have no clue what it means.