Discussion: Dev Blog: February 2022

[Yaffy]

Some ideas that I'm going to throw in:
-And speaking of damage calculation, by using that formula above, flat damage reduction is significantly less valuable than vulnerability reduction or % damage mitigation, and VUL reduction is better than %DR when both have the same values. My solution to this would be to put FDR at the back, so the formula becomes DMG=ATT*VUL*%DR-FDR. That way, FDR works as advertised, and VUL reduction has the same effect as %DR.

I made a post about this recently and why this isn't a good idea, because it does work this way for certain damage mitigation sources and it lets Staff/Shield become essentially invincible too easily.

I would love it if the flat damage reduction from armor scaled better, because it goes from god-tier at early game to basically useless at end game, but making flat damage reduction scale perfectly would be way too strong for staff players who can get hundreds of flat damage reduction compared to a normal player who probably won't even reach 50 flat damage reduction in a level 80 armor set.