But I looked at the newest one "Miscellaneous Game Effects" and I am frightened by it. It seems Anet are letting people write their articles that don't even play the game. Now I know why half of the articles aren't signed by their author. I can't believe these people are paid.
This article, apart from being mostly just long lists of all the skills that do a certain thing (like reduce damage), actually has just plain FALSE information in it.
I can name 3 mistakes in it that I caught just quickly going through it a first time.
1) Incorrect description of Exhaustion. The article suggests that Exhaustion gained is equal to the cost of a spell (and even gives the example of a 5 energy spell giving 5 points of exhaustion). Anyone who has ever even used an exhaustion spell knows this is not true - Exhaustion takes a static 10 energy from your bar no matter the cost of spell.EDIT: BTW, this isn't even getting into the issue of percentage caps and reduction stacks. Like the article simply puts "all damage reduction stacks" when actually different skills stack differently with other skills.
2) When giving suggestions on how to kill yourself with health sacrifice it mentions using a +60 hp staff and Infuse Health'ing yourself down to under 60 HP and changing to a no +hp weapon set to cause "instant death". This is false. If you've ever done this or fooled around with a 55 monk with DP you'd know that you cannot kill yourself by switching weapon sets - If you switch to a set that would give you less than 1 hp then the game registers it as 1 hp left and you do not die. In his example the person would have to use Infuse Health 1 more time after switching sets to finally die.
3) The very next paragraph is also false. It mentions how Aura of the Lich "indirectly" reduces health sacrifice by reducing your health by half. It does that sure, but it also directly decreases the health sacrifice percentage by half (10% sacs become 5% sacs, on top of the lowered sac because of lower hp). This is most easily seen by using a 10% health sac and your normal 480 hp. It takes 48 hp. Under Lich your health is changed to 240 - so 24hp sacced right? nope..Aura further reduces the sac to 12hp.
