Shield size of Dampen Magic

fred4

The tooltip of Dampen Magic and Harness Magicka has always been the same, prior to Murkmire, even though Dampen gets a 6% bonus per light armor piece. In other words, the tooltip has never displayed the true strength of Dampen. As far as I can tell the tooltips of the two morphs are still the same, as long as you don't run into the lower cap of Harness Magicka, for example when you compare the tooltips in PvP with a relatively low magicka pool.

As of Murkmire, once you run into the cap, you can see that reflected in the tooltip. For Dampen the tooltip is exactly 50% of your health. However the tooltip has never displayed the actual strength of Dampen, and still doesn't appear to do so. My question, therefore: Is Dampen actually capped at 50%, or does it get the additional 6% bonus per light armor piece on top?

fred4

Well, according to this addon:

https://www.esoui.com/downloads/info1512-ScootworksShield.html

Dampen is truly capped at 50%. WIth 21K health and 56 points into Bastion, in 5 light, you reach that point at around 42K magicka in CP PvP. The tooltip will say 8400, but your actual shield is 10.5K, and at cap. And yes, only 5% per light armor piece it seems. That 6% Dampen tooltip has been wrong for a long time.

The smart money is probably still on Necropotence, but not using Bastion, if you want to keep maximising your magicka / shield(s) / damage.