Harness Magicka capped at 31%

Galarthor

The title pretty much says it all.

At 22.7k HP my Harness Magcika is capped at a size of 7.1k. But as some simple math well tell you, 7.1k / 22.7k = 0.313 and not 0.4.
In fact, Harness Magcika should cap at 9.1k given my max HP.

I also talked to other players and they have the same issue.

Spartabunny08

Seeing the same thing using dampen magic and empowed ward, unless my math is wrong. 30000 health should be 15000 dampen magic shield? Something isn't right...lol

Sharee

Galarthor wrote: »

The title pretty much says it all.

At 22.7k HP my Harness Magcika is capped at a size of 7.1k. But as some simple math well tell you, 7.1k / 22.7k = 0.313 and not 0.4.
In fact, Harness Magcika should cap at 9.1k given my max HP.

I also talked to other players and they have the same issue.

Is that 22.7k HP in PvP areas? If so, it looks as if the shield is being capped by your normal HP, not your PvP-boosted HP.

PvP areas boost HP by 5000. If you have 22700 HP in PvP, then you normally have ~17700 (outside PvP).
17700 * 0.4 = 7080, which is the shield cap you are observing.

Just a wild guess really, but the math seems to checks out.

Galarthor

Spartabunny08 wrote: »

Seeing the same thing using dampen magic and empowed ward, unless my math is wrong. 30000 health should be 15000 dampen magic shield? Something isn't right...lol

Well you also need the necessary amount of max magicka.


While typing this I noticed what the issue probably is. The Hardened Ward tooltip reads "Absorbs 20% more damage than Conjured Ward". So that would mean that when you hit the 40% cap of Conjured Ward you'd get 40% * 1.2 = 48%.

But in reality this might actually be additive, so when you hit the 40% cap of Conjured Ward you'd get an additional 20% giving you a total of 60%, which ofc is capped at 50%.

And since you choose your max magicka based on the cap of your main shield, you got just enough max magicka to get your hardened ward to 50%, which in reality is 30% base + 20% bonus. This means all other shields in reality only reach 30% since you have just enough max magicka to reach the 30% of the basic shield strength formula.

Not sure if that really is the explanation. But it would make all shields besides Hardened Ward a real joke ... not that they are used much anyway ...