Spell Resistance Revisited - Apprentice Constellation Confirmed Broken.

evedgebah

After extensive retesting today in Cyrodiil with my wife, I have obtained the following data and come to the following tentative Spell Resistance/Armor and Spell/Armor Penetration formulas. These are different than my previously derived values. Note, this is still a work in progress, and I'm currently not sure how to properly reconcile the small differences in my estimates vs my actual numbers. The premise and scaling should remain constant for extrapolation of optimal DPS setups.

http://imgur.com/RXqTaqN

Damage Multiplier = 1- (TRUNC((RESISTANCE - PENETRATION) ÷ 63000),2)

While the numbers are not posted here, Focus Rating is increased by the raw Spell Penetration % listed in a the Apprentice Constellation (+5% increases pen by 5, 12% by 12, etc). The Apprentice Stone increases Focus Rating by a set 3200. A Sharpened Weapon increases Focus by 240%.

evedgebah

[PLEASE DELETE]

danno8

Man, I really hope they have spent the last week focusing on all these extremely broken mechanics. If not the game is going to be an absolute joke for the first month afterward.

sabresandiego_ESO

Spell pen formulas appear to be completely broken, especially when you stack light armor spell pen with nirnhoned weapons such as nirnhoned staffs. This causes 100% or nearly 100% of spell resist to be completely ignored, making spell resist a worthless stat in pvp.

Teargrants

It's still a pretty number on your screen, don't you like numbers? ZOS thinks you do, seeing all the extra digits they've given us.

In the meantime, this is just more reason we need to shield stack 24/7.

evedgebah

Nirnhoned weapons work just like Sharpened weapons do, but with MORE Spell penetration. So that 240% is increased to nearly 4-500%. I didn't get to test them out myself, but since even top-tier tanks can only get about 35k Armor or Spell Resist, and average PVPers will only have around 10-20k SR then a Nirnhoned will indeed bypass all of their SR.

Sumpfheini

yep spell resistance/pen needs tweaking. Especially now with armor rating affecting it or heavy armor remains useless forever.

Yuke

Well, better stay in PvE for a while if a fix isnt part of the patchnotes tomorrow.

Ezareth

evedgebah wrote: »

After extensive retesting today in Cyrodiil with my wife, I have obtained the following data and come to the following tentative Spell Resistance/Armor and Spell/Armor Penetration formulas. These are different than my previously derived values. Note, this is still a work in progress, and I'm currently not sure how to properly reconcile the small differences in my estimates vs my actual numbers. The premise and scaling should remain constant for extrapolation of optimal DPS setups.

http://imgur.com/RXqTaqN

Damage Multiplier = 1- (TRUNC((RESISTANCE - PENETRATION) ÷ 63000),2)

While the numbers are not posted here, Focus Rating is increased by the raw Spell Penetration % listed in a the Apprentice Constellation (+5% increases pen by 5, 12% by 12, etc). The Apprentice Stone increases Focus Rating by a set 3200. A Sharpened Weapon increases Focus by 240%.

Well since light armor wearers are taking full physical damage now, it only makes sense for casters to do full magical damage.

Spell penetration has *never* worked right, even in Beta. Spell Resistance is a worthless stat in 1.6 for sure. The new Light Armor spell resistance increase is a joke. The new mitigation curves are probably designed with the fact in mind that it's impossible to roll with less than 6-7K spell resistance now and most people will be rocking 10-20K.

c0rp

ZoS doesnt care about that stuff. If its not obvious to a casual user they will just let it go for as long as they can till they are required to do something about it. It took FOREVER for sharpened to be fixed.