...and Protect me from Harm

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...and Protect me from Harm
Ascendancy Notable Passive Skill
35% less Evasion Rating
Physical Damage Reduction from Armour is based on your combined Armour and Evasion Rating [1]

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...and Protect me from Harm is a notable Ascendancy passive skill for the Invoker that incorporates your evasion rating into the Physical damage reduction (PDR) calculation, but also imposes 40% less Evasion Rating.

Mechanics

The notable skill modifies the calculation for Physical Damage Reduction (PDR) by treating your evasion rating as additional armour. The 40% less Evasion Rating modifier reduces your total evasion before it is added to the PDR calculation. The new formula for PDR becomes:

PDR = (Armour + Evasion) / ((Armour + Evasion) + (12 × Damage))

Example Calculation

  • If the player's base evasion rating is 10,080 and armour is 119:
    • Applying "...and Protect me from Harm" reduces evasion to 60%, resulting in 6,048 evasion.
    • The total defensive value becomes Armour + Evasion = 119 + 6,048 = 6,167.

For a hit of 500 damage:

PDR = 6,167 / (6,167 + (12 × 500)) = 6,167 / 12,167 ≈ 50.7%

If combined with Acrobatics (which imposes 70% less evasion rating), the reductions are multiplicative:

  • Final Evasion Rating = Base Evasion Rating × 0.6 × 0.3 = 1,814
  • Total Defensive Value = Armour + Evasion = 119 + 1,814 = 1,933
  • PDR = 1,933 / (1,933 + (12 × 500)) = 1,933 / 7,933 ≈ 24.4%

Important Notes

  • The added evasion does not modify the actual armour value for interactions such as Iron Reflexes or any other effect that directly scales with armour.
  • This interaction allows evasion-based characters to mitigate physical damage effectively while reducing their chance to evade hits entirely.

Version history

Version Changes
0.1.0d
  • Updated the wording on the Invoker's "...and Protect me from Harm" Ascendancy Passive Skill to clarify its functionality.
0.1.0
  • Introduced to the game.