Influence that Skill Level has on Locked Item Modifiers

[Silver_fox 397]

This guide was written by Mibbs in russian and sent to me via PM. I merely made a translation.

 

Influence that Skill Level has on Locked Item Modifiers

 

Some Item Modifiers require specific skills to be unlocked. Bonuses this modifiers grant to the character depend on the level of a skill required to unlock them.
For example, some types of armor drop with Detrimental magic effects -X% modifier that requires Armor Lore Mastery and scales with it.
Every hard point invested in the respective skill (255 points maximum) increases the bonus from such locked modifier.

 

1. Item modifiers whose bonuses from different sources are normally added to each other (1+1=2) and Block chance: Close Combat/Projectiles/Combat Arts +x%.

 

You can calculate the resulting bonus for these modifiers using the followin formula:

Resulting Bonus from a Locked Item Modifier = Base Bonus^note + Base Bonus*Skill Level/255

Where Skill Level is capped at 255.

Additional bonus is applied directly by multiplying with the Base value^note for the Item Modifier Bonus. The Bonus' dependency on the Skill level is linear, when the Skill level reaches 255 the resulting bonus is approximately 2 times bigger than its base value.

Approximate increase in the bonus granted by an Item Modifier after n points were invested in the respective skill:

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n | Bonus increase

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1 | 2%,

50 | 18%,

75 | 27%,

100 | 36%,

150 | 54%,

200 | 72%,

255 | 90%

If a modifier requires Skill to be Mastered, it would have its bonus value increased by 27% immediately after being unlocked.

Note: It is necessary to keep in mind that the Base Bonus for each Item Modifier depends on a difficulty level. The higher the difficulty is, the bigger Base value bonuses have. Inctances of the same unique item found on Niob and Silver would have 33% difference in Base Bonus values.

 

2. Item Modifiers whose bonuses from different sources are applied in layers or have diminishing returns, for example Opponent's Chance for a Secondary Effect, Detrimental Magic Effects -x% and others.

 

For these modifiers the skill bonus is either multiplied by the base value, but the additional bonus granted at each skill level is significantly smaller than in previous example. Bonus increase for these modifiers is a linear function and for n points invested in skill results in following values:

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n | Bonus increase

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1 | 1%

50 | 6%

75 | 9%

100 | 12%

150 | 18%

255 | 30.5%

If a modifier requires Skill Mastery (75+ points invested), it would have its bonus value increased by 9% immediately after being unlocked.

3. Item Modifiers that appear on Shields

 

Locked Block chance modifier that appears on shields has its own dependency on skill level (it does NOT apply to similar modifiers that appear on armor pieces!) For n points invested in skill it would be the following:

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n | Bonus increase

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40 | 50%

80 | 75%

192 | 100%

255 | 110%

For example, if Kira's Wall has 43.7% Block chance at 1 point in Shield Lore, than at 255 points it would have 43.7*2.10 = 89.4%.

If a block chance modifier requires Skill to be Mastered, it would have its bonus value increased by 72% immediately after being unlocked.

Edited March 7, 2014 by Silver_fox

[mibbs 29]

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[mibbs 29]

4. "Max. Shield Energy +x%" Item modifier, depending on "warding energy lore" skill.
Bonus increase for these modifiers is a linear function and for n points invested in "warding energy lore" skill results in following values:
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n | Bonus increase
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75 | 45%,
150 | 90%,
55 | 153%
This item modifier has never required skill mastery (75+ "hard" points).

5. "Chance to Find Valuables" item modifier, depending on "Enhanced perception" skill.
Bonus increase for these modifiers is a linear function and for n points invested in "warding energy lore" skill results in following values:
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n | Bonus increase
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75 | 21%,
150 | 42%,
55 | 71%
This item modifier has never required skill mastery (75+ "hard" points).

Edited March 16, 2014 by mibbs

[Augmint 109]

Very interesting. Explains something recent I found with damage mitigation. seraphim shopper found a chest piece with 23% all channel damage mitigation (only one silver socket unf.). Pretty happy,except when I played next (without all the +skills) the same piece was only 19%.

[Augmint 109]

This also means amulets with +skills and +armour lore is pretty handy to squeeze out extra % for damage mitigation and -% detrimental magic effects. I'd set aside a few thinking they weren't high priority.