State of the Game: Damage Calculation

State of the Game

So, how many errors can you pick out? besides the obvious "icy" and "air" damage...

Worst of all, there was no Damage Calculation! (i.e. 60 AL = 100% damage, 70% AL = 84% Damage, etc.)

Incredibly wrong. If holy damage was armor ignoring they wouldnt have to put "and your attacks have 20% armor penetration" in the skill description.

well holy dmg is ignoring armor, but not judge's insight...

gg

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Guildwiki puts the chest at only 37.5% hit, meaning just under 2 out of every 3 hits misses the 'main body'... or if chest + legs was the meaning of 'main body, then they are hit 62.5% of the time combined, still leaving more than 1 out of every 3 hits to stray from the 'main body'

Holy damaging skills ignore armour, holy damage typed weapons do not.
Also, this was either written some time ago, or the author hasn't been keeping up to date, because shields obviously don't have mods that reduce all types of damage, only physical :/
Poor show all round...

What about Dark, Shadow, Light, and Chaos? They arent elemental, physical, armor-ignoring or life stealing, are they?

Um.... I can't believe someone from Anet wrote that?

It appears either we the community are wrong or this is very wrong.

That wasnt written by a-net. It was written by a "qualified" fan.

Shadow and Chaos are armor-ignoring, Dark and Light are...uh...affected by armor.

"Christian Brellisford is a college student currently studying video game design in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in hopes of pursuing a career in the field. A gamer since an early age, Christian has been involved with Guild Wars since the E3 for Everyone Event in 2004, and currently leads the Spirits of War guild. You can find him in game under the name Saidin Writer."

Yeah, a smart person but not detailed enough.

I was about to start a thread about the "factual" errors in today's State of the Game article as opposed to the "editing" errors that have been present in previous ones, but I'm glad to see someone beat me to it

The author of this week's piece, Christian Brellisford, has been writing articles for the main Guild Wars website for a while now. Of the 13 articles currently linked from the State of the Game page, he's authored 5:

-May 1, Introduction to Ritualists and Assassins;
-June 22, Introduction to Alliance Battles;
-June 28, Advanced Ritualist Tactics;
-July 31, Arena Play Part 2;
-August 14, A Guide to Guild Wars Damage Calculations.

Before we start declaring him "a 'qualified' fan," I think we need to look at the other articles and see what we find. If this is a one-time thing we can assume the article was written a while back and never released until today, but if there's a pattern of misinformation someone at ANet isn't fact-checking the articles.

I mean, I know even New York Times got conned by a reporter once, but that's no excuse

Being affected by armor makes them Physical then? I wasnt sure if it was or wasnt. And Shadow/Chaos i didnt really know.

Look at the "Advanced Ritualist Tactics" one:

Soul Twisting had an instant recharge back during the 1/20 Factions PvP preview event.

Mayhaps that's a typo, and he meant to say "Soul Twisting grants an instant recharge..."

But yeah...shoddy article, really; forums and GuildWiki have better information than this.

All attacks that come from weapons adhere to the properties of Armour, regardless if the properties of the weapon had been changed. If the attack comes from the skill itself, then Chaos, Shadow and Holy ignore armour in those instances. Dark and Light are considered to be the same as Shadow and Holy.

shoddy article is all i can say

But, it makes you think, it's quite possible that the guy had this information pre-written for Anet if the sources date back to the FPE...

And that's precisely what I wanted to see but didn't want to go looking for

i think no kind of damage are armor ignoring , its the skill who is armor ignoring.

some of mesmer weapon are chaos damage but they dont ignore the armor.

Holy damage is armor ignoring. Judge's Insight is actually light damage, even though it is described as holy damage. At least according to Guildwiki.

Ok, now I've read the article...

So, shields don't protect attacks from behind ? Here we go again...

Except Jittes are swords that deal blunt damage. And there are other weapons that deal a different damage type than specified above.

Hammers can do piercing or blunt; Axes slashing or piercing...

Seems like an article that was done sometime ago but only published now...

yeah, and i have seen both on swords and axes too, lol, fun how many errors, hope this was old, if not poor guy isnt playing much these days