E9 bless buggy with Abysia ?

[thejeff]

That should qualify as a bug.

[Maltrease]

Yes if braces really give +6 protection with an Earth 9 blessing that invites all sorts of abus...cough... strategies.

[evil grin]

[Olive]

OK, I thought I understood, but no. Let's take the example of Abysians scorpion-men : I took the bonus for them and could at last summon some. Bonus for total protection is 21+2, so it's maybe not worth the cost of the bless.

They have a natural protection of 14 and wear a plate cuirass of 14. Here's how I try to calculate the values, but it doesn't fit. Where am I wrong ?

Without bless :

natural : 14
head : 0+14=14 (no protection, so no bonus added, just the natural value) : OK
body : 14+(14/2)=21 (armor protection + half the natural value as he wears an armor) : should be 23.
total : 14+(14/2)=21 (Highest+Half the lowest)

With bless :

natural : 14
head : 0+14=14 : no armor, so no bonus
body : (14+4)+(14/2)=25 (armor protection + half the natural value as he wears an armor) : should be 26
total : (14+4)+(14/2)=25 : (Highest+Half the lowest) : Argh, should be 23

[PhilD]

Back in Dom2, there was a "diminishing returns" protection formula, where protection values didn't exactly add up together. Putting, say, a 10 prot. armor on a creature with a 10 natural prot. didn't result in 20 prot, but something lower.

IIRC (but it's highly likely that I don't remember it 100% correctly), the formula was something like

FinalProt = 40 - (40-ProtA)*(40-ProtB)/40

That is, count a protection of 40 as "maximum", and, say, protection of 10 as "25% protection"; then protection values don't add, rather the "unprotected" percentages are multiplied.

Thus, a natural protection of 10 lets 75% go through, and an armor protection of 20 lets 50% go through - so adding the two together would let 37.5% go through, resulting in a protection of 62.5% of 40, that is, 25.

Now, I don't know how bonuses to protections would be taken into account with this formula, or even if it was completely correct, or if it could explain what you observed in Dom3...