Aegis Status Protection Not Working?
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Agonist_NA,
Posted on: 2010-06-23 12:04 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
Working as intended, although misleading.
The combat attributes displays a different mechanic. Aegis's status resistance of 20% is computed similar to recharge reduction:
New Time = Oldtime/(1+reduction) = oldtime/(1+0.20) = oldtime*0.8333
So a 20% reduction results in an actual 16.67% reduction of actual time.
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Thanks Aramar...|
Originally Posted by Aramar
Working as intended, although misleading.
The combat attributes displays a different mechanic. Aegis's status resistance of 20% is computed similar to recharge reduction: New Time = Oldtime/(1+reduction) = oldtime/(1+0.20) = oldtime*0.8333 So a 20% reduction results in an actual 16.67% reduction of actual time. |
Did the displays in the Real Numbers just recently change then? I have always seen it tick up to 20% (I keep it displayed since mostly I put Aegis into click powers and want to make sure I remembered to click it!). So, in the absence of other modifiers, I might see Sleep 80% in Real Numbers, now it is higher than that.
The display functioned as it does now when I first tested the effect of the IO (back when IOs came out and the combat monitor was made available...I do not remember which came first), but I do not monitor that particular value on a regular basis...so if there was a change its reporting that has since reverted I do not have know if/when that happened.
With all of that said, I would only have two guesses:
If you saw it hit an actual 20% number in the real combat numbers, it was either a bug (apparently since resolved) or possibly also having the other status resistance IO (the non-unique one whose name escapes me right now).
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Actually, I suspect this is a bug. The Aegis IO has long been a screwy IO in that it provided you 20% mez duration reduction, however it was applied in 5% segments as a set bonus until you had 25% resistance (the rule of 5s) and thus 20% duration reduction. When the IO was modified (very recently I suspect as I just noticed it today) It was modified to apply the entire buff at once. Furthermore the buff used to be permanently active until you zoned once you received it, but now in toggle powers only works as long as the buff is active. Unfortunately, the new buff is set to 20% instead of 25%.|
Originally Posted by Agonist_NA
On multiple toons, the Aegis status protection only goes to 16.67%, rather than 20%
Bug? |
I suspect this may just have been an oversight on the part of the programmer who fixed the power.
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The bug was that it used to give 25% bonus to Status Resistance, so 1/(1+0.25) gave a combat display of 20%.
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Originally Posted by Aramar
With all of that said, I would only have two guesses: If you saw it hit an actual 20% number in the real combat numbers, it was either a bug (apparently since resolved) or possibly also having the other status resistance IO (the non-unique one whose name escapes me right now). |
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If it was always the intention of the power to only provide 20% resistance the text (as well as that of Impervious Skin for that matter) should be updated to say that they provide 20% and 7.5% Status Resistance rather than reduction in duration. The Aegis at least used to be accurate.
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Originally Posted by Katze
The bug was that it used to give 25% bonus to Status Resistance, so 1/(1+0.25) gave a combat display of 20%.
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I just saw that it does stop after the power in which it is in deactivates, so I can confirm that Draggyyn. As I recall, it is supposed to be global, eg http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Aegis:...tus_Resistance
So I am going to call "bug!" on at least that part. That 20% going to 16.667% is definately a change, but I don't know if it is now WAI or if that is a bug.
On multiple toons, the Aegis status protection only goes to 16.67%, rather than 20%
Bug?