2014-05-16, 21:31:39
It works like this:
when one tank is under the shield, the damage that the tanks takes will be substracted by 100% from the blockable damage.
Example: The shield can still block 1000 damage and the tank takes 500 damage, those 500 damage will be substracted from the shield and he will be left with 50% of his total blockable damage
When there are two tanks under the shield and one of them takes damage, 50% of that damage will be substracted from the blockable damage (33% when there are 3 tanks, 25% with 4, etc).
Example: The shield can still block 1000 damage and one tank takes 500 damage, 250 damage will be substracted from the shield and he will be left with 75% of his total blockable damage. If both tanks would be hit by 500 damage, the total blockable damage would actually be reduced by those 500 damage.
I hope you can see where I'm going with this. This mechanic has been implemented mainly, so that aoe skills would not simply destroy the shield. In other words: when there are 5 tanks under the shield and all of them take the same damage (from an aoe skill for example), then bascially the damage the skill dealt to a single tank, will be taken from the shield. This is the same, as if one tank would be under the shield and take the same damage.
But if there are more than one tank under the shield and only one tank takes damage from a certain source (for example a tank weapon), only a certain percentage of that taken damage will be taken from the shield ( = damage / number of tanks under the shield ). This is why it says, that the shield becomes more efficient, when there are more tanks under it.
I hope this wasn't too confusing :) But it was pretty hard to explain a concept like this in a short tooltip.
when one tank is under the shield, the damage that the tanks takes will be substracted by 100% from the blockable damage.
Example: The shield can still block 1000 damage and the tank takes 500 damage, those 500 damage will be substracted from the shield and he will be left with 50% of his total blockable damage
When there are two tanks under the shield and one of them takes damage, 50% of that damage will be substracted from the blockable damage (33% when there are 3 tanks, 25% with 4, etc).
Example: The shield can still block 1000 damage and one tank takes 500 damage, 250 damage will be substracted from the shield and he will be left with 75% of his total blockable damage. If both tanks would be hit by 500 damage, the total blockable damage would actually be reduced by those 500 damage.
I hope you can see where I'm going with this. This mechanic has been implemented mainly, so that aoe skills would not simply destroy the shield. In other words: when there are 5 tanks under the shield and all of them take the same damage (from an aoe skill for example), then bascially the damage the skill dealt to a single tank, will be taken from the shield. This is the same, as if one tank would be under the shield and take the same damage.
But if there are more than one tank under the shield and only one tank takes damage from a certain source (for example a tank weapon), only a certain percentage of that taken damage will be taken from the shield ( = damage / number of tanks under the shield ). This is why it says, that the shield becomes more efficient, when there are more tanks under it.
I hope this wasn't too confusing :) But it was pretty hard to explain a concept like this in a short tooltip.
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