Reduced Cost Applications

Sokre93 · March 2015

Hi, sorry if this is the wrong section.

Currently you can reduce the cost of an ability with either a hard number, or a percent.

If I can math, having the percent reduction apply first followed by the hard number, would give the most total cost reduction.

Let's say a spell costs 2000, and you have a 5% reduction, and a 150 reduction. Applying the percentage first, followed by the hard number, results in the spell costing 1,750. Applying the hard number first, followed by the percent, leaves the spell at 1757.5. The difference here is negligible, but over time and with higher costing spells, the difference is more clear.

My question is this: in which order are the reductions applied currently, I'm mostly just curious to know. I forgot my real reason for asking while typing the question... Because math.

Vandril · March 2015

I tested this way back when... I think it may have even been right after release.

If I recall correctly, back then at least, percentage reductions seemed to apply first.

Who knows if it changed since then, however.

Septimus_Magna · March 2015

I tested this yesterday and the difference seems to be 1% per cost reduction glyph. I heard someone calculated that there's a base cost of spell which cannot be reduced. In my situation I had a spell which costs 2500 magicka, with one 200 magicka cost reduction glyph the cost was reduced 7%, with two 14% and with three 21%. Which is 1% less than 2300/2500=92% > 8% reduction.

Nevertheless, its by far the best jewelry enchantment imo. A gold armor/spell resist glyph only give 2,1% dmg reduction for example.