Earth Bless funkiness
 

I was playing Bandar Log in SP, and witnessed a weird thing. My pretender is an (imprisoned) Earth Mother with E9N6. I was having some fun with Yakshas (a nice summon for Conj4), kitting them and stomping on hapless indies. I happened to notice that my guys had an inordinate amount of protection after blessing themselves. Witness:



Devasilpa the Yaksha

http://www.helsinki.fi/~kaojala/Devasilpa_Yaksha.jpg



Devasilpa's protection at start of battle

http://www.helsinki.fi/~kaojala/Devasilpa_prot.jpg



Devasilpa's protection after casting Blessing

http://www.helsinki.fi/~kaojala/Deva...prot_bless.jpg


The guy gained a respectable +8/+7 head/body protection. I tried searching the forum, but couldn't find any threads on this subject. I managed to narrow the effect down to the bracers, and it only manifests when the blessee has a helmet AND armor AND bracers. Soo... anybody else notice this? Is it a bug, or what? +2 Def/+6 Prot is not too shabby for 5 Earth gems, but hardly game-breaking, as it costs a misc slot. Also, I assume it would work with any misc item that gives (all round) protection. I'll have to do more testing.

K.

Re: Earth Bless funkiness
 

Yep, bracers and fire helmet (all with adds global protection) are quite good with earth bless. There were some few threads including this feature.

You can even stack 2 bracers. Stacking works here!

Re: Earth Bless funkiness
 

It's a bug, although it seems it isn't listed in the shortlist. It has been reported in the bug thread IIRC.

Re: Earth Bless funkiness
 

Yes i know but i don't think its that relevant. Pendant of Luck is just too good for this second slot.

Re: Earth Bless funkiness
 

I'm guessing it's not a bug per se. E9 is meant to add +4 prot to each piece of armour worn, and that's what it seems to be doing. Your helmet and body armour are getting +4, so are your bracers.

Does E9 body+helm+bracers+krupps bracers add an overall +12, I wonder?

Re: Earth Bless funkiness
 

It's a bug because up to three items can get what's supposed to be a single bonus, AND it also works with Legions of Steel. I haven't tested it, but I think E9 bless and Legions of steel would give an obscene bonus to anyone with two Bracers, or Bracers and Flame Helmet.

Re: Earth Bless funkiness
 

I don't think it's a bug, any mor than it's a bug that E9 does nothing for your Prot if your armor is all natural. It's just a consequence of the way the armor rules work. You can argue that it's a design bug.

Prot over 25 is fairly pointless anyway. At that point your main worry is AP or AN attacks, and MR.

-Max