Pandora Shoes Bugged.

The lower PB shoes give 15 pts, resistance to everything and 15% BONUS to Thrown Damage. A 15% bonus is rather large, I assume it's bugged.

Message Edited by krytical on 04-05-200606:40 PM

Hmm, that's why MKTs did so little damage to me. Nice find, if it is supposed to be pts.

They should change it to a +5% bonus to all 4.

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Faithlessness wrote:

It would only be better when your total thrown bonus without the shoues is above 100, if it is at 100 it gives the same bonus as if it had been giving 15 pts, and if its below 100 this "bug" would make the total resistance worse. Exception would be if you get a thrown resistance bonus (%) from something else, so that a regular stat would become better than this bonus.

eh something... to tired to explain correctly I think.

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i read it twice, but the second time i got what you said, and you're right.

15% does seem excessive, though, from what i've seen of other stuff.

a related question, though, is: are the bonus %s even working? from what i've seen the "bonus" things only effect the buff abilities, and not clothing. admittedly, i haven't had experience with all the new trees as they are, but from what i've seen abilities give defense, and not resistance, so the %, if it works as % and is not just mislabled, may not actually be doing anything, anyway.

this actually goes along with a question i've had since the opening of the EPS that i never got around to asking, about IS regen bonus %s working (or not working) the same way... but maybe i'll find the proper thread for that or start one.

as to the topic, though... like i said, i've not seen anything else with %s like that for resistance, so if it's really working that way, sounds like a mistake.


-uljhar

If the thing you wonder about is why you not are getting anything from buffs that ends with "Bonus" and gives a % number. Then this might be of interest.

any 1 finding them dieing fast ? the shoes i mean .. i lost 2 pts of purity in 1 day and there wasnt much pvp involved

actually, later when i considered it, i do of course know some abilities that give resistance... the awakened abilities that give resistance to each of the kinds of damage for 20 seconds apiece.

as to the "bonus" issue, i know how it is supposed to work, i just wonder if it really does. for instance, i have some coat that gives 3% thrown resistance bonus, yet it seems to have no effect, even with a high thrown resistance score. even if i only had a 50 thrown resistance, that should be 1 1/2 points more, say they round it down, so one more, but the score doesn't seem to be effected at all.

from your other post there:

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Faithlessness wrote:

This goes for all attributes given from clothing/abilities/everything.

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what i'm wondering if it really does consider the bonuses from clothing. that's what i was wondering with the IS question really... i've tried setting my vitality to maximum for the high "IS regen rate bonus", yet the IS regen rate of IS regen clothing i wear doesn't seem to be effected by the bonus.

some bonuses, i know they work, because i can find the results, like having a high perception giving a ballistic accuracy bonus, or a high vitality giving a max hp bonus. the effects of those bonuses will show in the buff abilities, when you mouseover the description of the ability in the actions window or on your hotbar compared to when you mouseover it actually being active in your active buffs area or whatever you'd like to call it.

so is clothing not effected? if not, is it by design or a bug? if by design, are there any abilities that give IS regen rate, or does it just make the IS regen rate bonus completely pointless?


-uljhar

yeah, that's definetly supposed to be

Thrown Resistance +15 pts

instead of the bonus %.

a simple typo.

/hotfix

Id agree if all the shoes didnt have the %.If it were a typo maybe the others would be diff but arnt the top shoes 25%?

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ReguIus wrote:
a simple typo.

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i mentally agreed with you when i saw your post earlier, but later when i logged in tonight i grabbed a pair to try it out they did an absolute nothing to my thrown resistance score. i think not only is it really bonus %, but of the bugged kind, unless it's as Tseng suggests and it's all being handled in the combat rolls and absorptions that we can't see anymore.

as faithlessness pointed out, though, with how bonuses work that 15% is only really powerful if 1) you have a thrown reistance score a bit over a hundred or more, because only then is it even equaling the +15 to the other resistances, and 2) Tseng and Faithlessness are both right, seperately, and it's really taking into account all the resistances you have from clothing and everything but just not really telling you on the combat tab of the status window that the resistance bonuses are taking effect, as the numbers there don't change. i didn't actually test it beyond that in a live way tonight, but perhaps tomorrow, or perhaps someone else wants to get a buddy to knife them a bit and check their own findings on the damage.

i've actually seen plenty of enhanced clothing with +XX resistance to three of the four types of damage, and then some low single digit % to the last one, so for those the % is really the vunerability for that particular article of clothing. maybe these % really are done on purpose, so that the resistance is variable depending on what you do. if that's so, though, and it's all really working properly like we think it's supposed to, it's definitely a very powerful item against thrown damage when used properly.


-uljhar

i was reading around, and found from another post of yours, kryt:

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krytical wrote:
Against people with 200-240 Thrown Resistance my knives do 100ish damage unless I use Find Weakness, which is probably getting fixed in the next patch.

But, check what HCFrog said here.

Sorry I didn't catch this thread earlier... yeah this is just a typo bug. If they gave you +15%, that means it's applied to any active buffs you put on yourself or others, rather than being added to your resistances.

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Faithlessness wrote:
But, check what HCFrog said here.

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ahh, that's interesting, about the cap. the % can still yeild a high number, though, and more than any other clothing i've seen.

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HCFrog wrote:
Sorry I didn't catch this thread earlier... yeah this is just a typo bug.

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is the typo setting the effect, then? when i put on any of those shoes, my thrown resistance isn't effected on the combat tab of the status window, where the other three resistances are, those that give +XX.

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HCFrog wrote:
If they gave you +15%, that means it's applied to any active buffs you put on yourself or others, rather than being added to your resistances.

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so does this also mean that bonus percentages aren't applied to clothing effects? if so, doesn't that, like in my question of it earlier, make the IS regen rate bonus useless? i may just be missing it, but i've seen no buffs/abilities that give IS regen.


-uljhar

ahh, a bit more reading and testing and i've found that answer. vegetto did find an ability that gives IS regen, and posted about it here:

http://mxoboards.station.sony.com/matrix/board/message?board.id=CR20Abil&message.id=1384

blindside had some interesting points in that post, as well.

so to answer my own question... yeah, bonuses only work for abilities, not clothing. so as far as the topic goes, this also makes the shoe bonus % only useful when you are using calm mind, calm body or some other ability that gives thrown resistance.


-uljhar