Chalice and Amon Hotep

[Taqwus]

If you want truly obscene prot, go for an undead commander (Wraith Lords and Vampire Lords are the obvious picks, both being immortal, if you're not going to do this to a Prince of Death) since they basically ignore encumberance.

Then give 'em the flaming helmet (prot 7, and undead ignore the fatigue it gives, or at least did in Dom I), a good shield like the Aegis (hard to go wrong with "save or die" damage shields), and a heavy armor like Asfetik or Monolith. For even more prot consider the stoneskin boots instead of, say, quickness. At least in Dom I, you could get to 40.

Then your opponent hits you with armor negating effects.

[Kristoffer O]

The external armor value (prot gained from items) is reduced if the body protection of a unit is high. Max prot is always 40. With base prot 20 you get only 50% of the armor protection. With base prot 10 you get 75% of the armor etc. Invulnerability gives 30 base prot and thus only 25% of the armor counts.

[Saber Cherry]

That seems a bit odd. Does a natural protection 19 unit with a 20 protection armor get total protection 19+15=34, or does it scale evenly?

I had always thought it might be some sort of root-sum-square (base^2+armor^2)^.5, with exemptions for values below a certain level...

So, basically, is the scale linear or step-wise, with 4 steps (0-9, 10-19, 20-29, 30+) and major discontinuities?

-Cherry

[johan osterman]

Pb = base protection, intinsic, from stone skin etc
Pa = protection from armor
Pt = total protection

Pb<41, Pa<41

Pt=Pb+Pa -[Pa*Pb]/40

So a unit with intrinsic protection 10 and a total of 18 in equiment armor would have an effective armor of: 10+18 -[10*18]/40 = 28 -4.5= 23.5 rnd up = 24

[ November 27, 2003, 23:23: Message edited by: johan osterman ]

[Saber Cherry]

Ah, thanks!

[PvK]

Aha! I knew there were reduced benefits when combining internal and external armor, but I was far from deducing the formula. An interesting formula - thanks for posting it!

PvK