RoBF damage/AC? (in General)


Flamey October 17 2007 8:30 AM EDT

It's not in the wiki and I don't want to sift through 100 replies in the changelog to find it. How does the RoBF damage work in regards to AC? I know that GA can't reflect it, so is it counted as physical or magical?

Eurynome Bartleby [Bartleby's] October 17 2007 8:44 AM EDT

All I can say for sure is that AC DOES affect damage.

Else I would not witness the insane damage fluctuations I see. (I tried fighting various ACs, and if my results are not only due to luck, higher AC minions take less damage.) Now, is it magical or physical? I think it used to be neither. But at present, I have no idea.

Talion October 17 2007 8:59 AM EDT

From the results I am getting so far, the RBF damage is like damage from a physical attack. So AC affects it like it would affect other weapons.

Flamey October 17 2007 9:07 AM EDT

That's better, if it counts as magical damage, I will cry. I'll have no reason to be a tank, RoBF's around my level practically do the same damage, for a lot of nothing, actually, it's not even exp, they're doing almost the same damage from nothing, and I can't do anything about it, I can't even reflect the damage, I can't hit them with my +100 weapon, and ohh, even if I use DD, they only need a decent amount of HP and I would stalemate them from the DD reduction from the RoBF.

RoBF is underpowered.

AdminQBnovice [Cult of the Valaraukar] October 17 2007 10:10 AM EDT

it's magical Flamey, start the water works

Nerevas October 17 2007 10:28 AM EDT

As best as I can tell, RoBF reduction is at the very end after AMF/AC/Protection. So the more its been reduced before RoBF kicks in, the greater the chance of taking "no damage".

Talion October 17 2007 10:29 AM EDT

It doesn't have a magical behavior novice... AMF does not affect it and base AC reduces it.

Kong Ming October 17 2007 10:32 AM EDT

Damage from RoBF works like damage from GA so it is only reduced by the + on your armor.

AdminQBnovice [Cult of the Valaraukar] October 17 2007 10:44 AM EDT

Kong: GA works like whatever damage you're dealing out.

After thinking about it, I do remember seeing pretty drastic reductions in RoBF damage on my small farm, So you're right Talion.

Talion October 17 2007 11:44 AM EDT

"Damage from RoBF works like damage from GA..."

That was before change month. It works differently now.
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