Short Questions Thread

Is there a write up of Fire/Cold/Lightning Absorb somewhere? If not can someone quickly explain how it works? Say you have 5% Fire Absorb and 85% Fire Resistance. You take a 10k fire hit. Does the absorb heal you for 500, 5% of the original hit, or 75, 5% of the 1500 you take after resistance.

Or does it work some completely different way and I'm just spitting nonsense here.

Ernie wrote:Does Bull Prince still have drop bias for UMO?

Yes, but it's probably faster to go and get all the gear for labs and then do labs instead.

Llewllyn wrote:Is there a write up of Fire/Cold/Lightning Absorb somewhere? If not can someone quickly explain how it works? Say you have 5% Fire Absorb and 85% Fire Resistance. You take a 10k fire hit. Does the absorb heal you for 500, 5% of the original hit, or 75, 5% of the 1500 you take after resistance.

Or does it work some completely different way and I'm just spitting nonsense here.

75. But technically, it doesn't actually matter for % sorb, because they're multiplicative. You're taking 1,350 damage no matter which order they work in.

Ernie wrote:Does Bull Prince still have drop bias for UMO?

5% chance for umo. Way too slow if you consider that you also have to grab the 2 legs each run.

75. But technically, it doesn't actually matter for % sorb, because they're multiplicative. You're taking 1,350 damage no matter which order they work in.

Ahh I was hoping maybe they were additive.

What does the Book of Cain do? I have 2 atm, they both look different... no clue what I'm supposed to do with them. :oops:

Marrt wrote:
jkfkl wrote:Why does my UHM paladin summon no servant of valor? (2 skill in SOV, 1 in Conclave)

You are using melee devotion, read the skill description

I'm sorry, but there is even "Transcendence" in UHM skill tree that buff servant, and Grim Presence allows Melee/Summoning/Buff/Debuff skill. Also the SOV skill doesn't say anything about Melee Devotion.

jkfkl wrote:
Marrt wrote:
jkfkl wrote:Why does my UHM paladin summon no servant of valor? (2 skill in SOV, 1 in Conclave)

You are using melee devotion, read the skill description

I'm sorry, but there is even "Transcendence" in UHM skill tree that buff servant, and Grim Presence allows Melee/Summoning/Buff/Debuff skill. Also the SOV skill doesn't say anything about Melee Devotion.

Melee Devotion is in the mastery tree and has a similar line to the blue one on Grim Presence but does not allow summoning skills.

There's a ssu zon helm called the deviant crown that gives a bunch of bonuses for not using any of the devotion skills. In the last build of median this meant that you could only use up to tier 3 talents from all the talent trees but with the new patch zons get locked to a specialization upon picking up the first talent rather than the tier 4 talent the way it used to be. Anyway it feels like the talent choices are extremely limited by using this helm. Was this taken into account? Feels like an oversight to me.

GoochMcNuts wrote:There's a ssu zon helm called the deviant crown that gives a bunch of bonuses for not using any of the devotion skills. In the last build of median this meant that you could only use up to tier 3 talents from all the talent trees but with the new patch zons get locked to a specialization upon picking up the first talent rather than the tier 4 talent the way it used to be. Anyway it feels like the talent choices are extremely limited by using this helm. Was this taken into account? Feels like an oversight to me.

its a designed rogue helm imo, not zon helm

Some time ago I asked how this oil of luck works and I got a partial answer. Well, the item falling out of the mob has a saved chance whether the lucky / lottery bonus will be or not. And here my friend could be right. Tested on around 20 Angel of Death Amulet. Some of them got a bonus for the first time, and the rest of them could sit for an hour and nothing.

In the case of gem making, it is more complicated. 1% / x to all attributes on the gem. Here, each attribute is considered separately. Separately Sstrenght, Dexterity ... Tested on dozens of gems.

If the item has the bonus added, you get it the first time you use the oil. Since the item is written in the code that the bonus will be granted and you get it the first time you use the oil, why are there two types, 20% and 40%?