damage shields, do more harm than good?

phatbandit · April 2015

i am asking this, because i seem to remember from pre-1.6 days, that if u had a damage shield up, and got hit soooo hard it broke thru the shield, like maybe in one hit, the overflowing damage would be inflicted on HP regardless of the type of armour u were wearing.

in other words, if u had 3000 HP and a 200 point dmg shield, and got hit for 500 dmg, you would have an overflow of 300 dmg, bringing HP down to 2700. but if u had no dmg shield - but high armour rating, the hit for 500 would only do 250 HP damage, bring HP down to 2750. so u were actually better off without the damage shield.

it would be better if after the shield was broken, remaining damage would be re-calc'd to correctly account for damage mitigation of phys resist. but does it actually work this way yet? or still kinda flawed like pre-1.6???

Cinna · April 2015

Difference is, with current builds we have very big shields so they absorb more than an average hit when played right. Shields do not utilise any mitigation values, as you say, but also no vulnerability, therefore they are perfect solution to protect vampires or lightly armored characters. As a shielding dk healer I have not come across a situation where tank would have died due to the unmitigated overflow damage. I would however stay away from tiny shielding effects such as weapon enchant or spells scaling with wrong stat, unless you have proper shielding spells to stack those with.

olsborg · April 2015

afaik its still flawed

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damage shields, do more harm than good?

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