Earth Bless funkiness

[Kaljamaha]

I was playing Bandar Log in SP, and witnessed a weird thing. My pretender is an (imprisoned) Earth Mother with E9N6. I was having some fun with Yakshas (a nice summon for Conj4), kitting them and stomping on hapless indies. I happened to notice that my guys had an inordinate amount of protection after blessing themselves. Witness:



Devasilpa the Yaksha

http://www.helsinki.fi/~kaojala/Devasilpa_Yaksha.jpg



Devasilpa's protection at start of battle

http://www.helsinki.fi/~kaojala/Devasilpa_prot.jpg



Devasilpa's protection after casting Blessing

http://www.helsinki.fi/~kaojala/Devasilpa_prot_bless.jpg


The guy gained a respectable +8/+7 head/body protection. I tried searching the forum, but couldn't find any threads on this subject. I managed to narrow the effect down to the bracers, and it only manifests when the blessee has a helmet AND armor AND bracers. Soo... anybody else notice this? Is it a bug, or what? +2 Def/+6 Prot is not too shabby for 5 Earth gems, but hardly game-breaking, as it costs a misc slot. Also, I assume it would work with any misc item that gives (all round) protection. I'll have to do more testing.

K.

[calmon]

Yep, bracers and fire helmet (all with adds global protection) are quite good with earth bless. There were some few threads including this feature.

You can even stack 2 bracers. Stacking works here!

[Endoperez]

It's a bug, although it seems it isn't listed in the shortlist. It has been reported in the bug thread IIRC.

[calmon]

Yes i know but i don't think its that relevant. Pendant of Luck is just too good for this second slot.

[Gregstrom]

I'm guessing it's not a bug per se. E9 is meant to add +4 prot to each piece of armour worn, and that's what it seems to be doing. Your helmet and body armour are getting +4, so are your bracers.

Does E9 body+helm+bracers+krupps bracers add an overall +12, I wonder?

[Endoperez]

It's a bug because up to three items can get what's supposed to be a single bonus, AND it also works with Legions of Steel. I haven't tested it, but I think E9 bless and Legions of steel would give an obscene bonus to anyone with two Bracers, or Bracers and Flame Helmet.

[MaxWilson]

I don't think it's a bug, any mor than it's a bug that E9 does nothing for your Prot if your armor is all natural. It's just a consequence of the way the armor rules work. You can argue that it's a design bug.

Prot over 25 is fairly pointless anyway. At that point your main worry is AP or AN attacks, and MR.

-Max