Shield Charge has its own damage cap?
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Posted on: 2010-04-22 08:14 in Archetypes and Powers General Discussion
All pets are capped at 400%. I believe Lightning Rod is like this as well, for example. The damage they deal is done by an invisible pet created at the target location.
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IIRC, Shield Charge is labeled as a Pet (like Lightning Rod) and subject to the Pet Damage Cap.
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This is why stalkers can use lightning rod without breaking hide. The pet attacks, not the stalker, so the follow up attack can autocrit.
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Originally Posted by StratoNexus
The damage they deal is done by an invisible pet created at the target location.
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Doesn't that seem like a bug? Is there some technical reason why they can't flag summoning the pet as an action that breaks hide?
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Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison
This is why stalkers can use lightning rod without breaking hide. The pet attacks, not the stalker, so the follow up attack can autocrit.
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Shush you. I like being able to lightning rod then AS the boss as he gets up.|
Originally Posted by Rodion
Doesn't that seem like a bug? Is there some technical reason why they can't flag summoning the pet as an action that breaks hide?
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But really? Yeah, it seems like a bug. But that's also why LR doesn't (can't) crit, so I guess it's a tradeoff. If they make it break hide, they'd better make it crit.
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It kinda sucked when everyone had the same version of L-rod/SC cause brutes were frequently getting no benefit from buildup.|
Originally Posted by Beber
So, I'm leveling a new SS/Shield brute, and I noticed something odd.
It seems that Shield Charge damages are capped at some value, that is not brute's damage bonus cap. Here are my tests (testing an AE mission with invincibility activated) : While I was under 400% damage bonus, everything was fine, damages increased. Once I got over 400% (or something like that, I couldn't get the exact value since Fury and Against All Odds bonuses weren't constant), damages dealt with Shield Charge stopped increasing. I checked with every other power, and they didn't have that problem, damages still increased after getting over 400% damage bonus. So, anyone have any information regarding this? Bug or something else? I thought of MPing Castle, but maybe someone already know the answer. |
It really sucks relative to scrappers now that theirs was increased by ~70 base damage.
I think brute version should be increased a bit to compensate for them being unable to benefit from their high damage cap. They have low base damage and insane caps on normal attacks, but L-rod/SC just has the low base damage and a low cap.
*More for L-rod as SC is just ridiculously good in all versions considering it is better than L-rod in every way.
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Lightning Rod not critting is a bug in the same sense, so it works out all right.
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Originally Posted by Rodion
Doesn't that seem like a bug? Is there some technical reason why they can't flag summoning the pet as an action that breaks hide?
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So, I'm leveling a new SS/Shield brute, and I noticed something odd.
It seems that Shield Charge damages are capped at some value, that is not brute's damage bonus cap.
Here are my tests (testing an AE mission with invincibility activated) :
While I was under 400% damage bonus, everything was fine, damages increased. Once I got over 400% (or something like that, I couldn't get the exact value since Fury and Against All Odds bonuses weren't constant), damages dealt with Shield Charge stopped increasing. I checked with every other power, and they didn't have that problem, damages still increased after getting over 400% damage bonus.
So, anyone have any information regarding this? Bug or something else? I thought of MPing Castle, but maybe someone already know the answer.