Guide to Armor Glow and Resistance Bonuses

[myles 2]

Ok folks, I have decided to rewrite the whole thing, to make it more simple and more clear.

 

So for those who wasn't here before, this is a modification of an old test thread by Ring, Nazacra and Pispotje. It is now verified for UW 2.28.

 

I have borrowed a bit from the discussion on this thread, namely to include the maximum possible glow points for all characters. Thx Dr_Indy13 and welcome b. :thumbup:

 

Questions and comments welcome.

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Armor Glow and Resistance Bonuses

 

Modification of an old test thread by Ring, Nazacra and Pispotje. I still have the original, if you would like it give me a shout.

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Section

 

1) Armor Glow/ Resistance Bonuses?

2) Glow Points Requirement

3) How to Get a Glow Point?

4) Possible Glow Points for a Character

5) How Many Glows Can You Have?

6) Worth It to Keep Track and Maintain Three Glows?

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As always, copy the full section name to search jump.

 

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1) Armor Glow/ Resistance Bonuses?

 

Armor Glow- The visual representation of resistance bonus(es). I.e. A vivid color change in how your character looks when you acquire one or more of the resistance bonus(es).

 

Resistance Bonuses- There are four resistance types: physical, fire, magic and poison. When you combine items (armor/jewelry/weapons) in a systematic way, you can acquire a +15% bonus to a selected resistance type. They are reflected in the inventory screen , in the Sacred circle that show your set bonus. I.e. there are four basic kinds of armor glow: physical, fire, magic and poison.

 

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2) Glow Points Requirement

 

Explanation: In order to acquire a resistance bonus and its glow, one needs to collect enough points, and these points are known as "glow points". The requirement is as shown below:

 

Physical

: 8 glow points

 

Fire

: 6 glow points

 

Magic

: 6 glow points

 

Poison

: 6 glow points

 

Sadly, there is no in game counter to keep track of your glow points. These numbers are gotten from testing. I.e. you have to keep track of the glow points yourself.

 

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3) How to Get a Glow Point?

 

1) 1 point from an armor with a dominant resistance.

2) 1 point from a weapon with a dominant damage.

3) 2 points from an item (armor/weapon) with a dominant resistance and a dominant damage.

4) 1 point from a jewelry with a dominant damage/resistance.

5) 0 point from an item with more than a single dominant damage or/and dominant resistance.

 

 

Explanation for 1):

 

A boot with only poison resistance will give you one glow point in poison.

 

Explanation for 2):

 

A weapon with 100 physical damage, 50 fire damage will give you one glow point in physical.

 

Explanation for 3):

 

How to get 2 points from an item? The power of socketing.

 

We know that weapon only spawn with damage, armor with resistance.

 

So the trick here is to socket the opposite (damage vs. resistance) into a socket. Thus, socket resistance to weapon, socket damage to armor.

 

Explanation for 4):

 

Jeweleries have either damage or resistance (but never both), and they cannot have socket, so only one point is possible.

 

Explanation for 5):

 

Note that on the topic of Armor Glows, only the maximum damage/resistance comes into play.

 

So on a sword with 50-70 physical and 10-70 fire damage, only the 70 maximum on both are counted. And this sword will yield no glow point since it has two dominant damages.

 

Socket comes into play on this as well. If you have a helm with 30 fire resistances, it yields a glow point for fire. But if you socket a ring with 30 physical resistances into the helm, the helm will no longer yield any glow point. To expand even further, if you socket yes another ring with 10 poison damage into this helm (with the ring), the helm now yields a glow point for poison.

 

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4) Possible Glow Points for a Character

 

Following the above rules, we can now calculate the maximum possible glow points for each character based on how much they can wear.

 

Battlemage

: 24

 

Daemon

: 25

 

Dark Elf

: 25

 

Dwarf

: 25

 

Gladiator

: 23

 

Seraphim

: 21

 

Vampiress

: 25

 

Wood Elf

: 24

 

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5) How Many Glows Can You Have?

 

Three Glows?

 

With all of the above, this is now a simple math problem. Recall that we need 8 for physical, 6 for fire, 6 for magic, and 6 for poison.

 

So in order to have all four glows we will need:

 

8 + 6 + 6 + 6 = 26 glow points

 

Conclusion:

It is impossible for any character to have all four glows at a time.

 

Three Glows?

 

But all the characters can have up to three glows, any three glows:

 

Physical, Fire, Magic: 8 + 6 + 6 = 20 points

 

Physical, Fire, Poison: 8 + 6 + 6 = 20 points

 

Physical, Magic, Poison: 8 + 6 + 6 = 20 points

 

Fire, Magic, Poison: 6 + 6 + 6 = 18 points

 

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6) Worth It to Keep Track and Maintain Three Glows?

 

Probably not, except for the super cool look and maybe pure casters.

 

1) There are WE runes with +15% to all resistances.

 

2) At later character levels vendors start selling jewelry with higher bonuses.

 

3) Basically you will always get an armor glow of some sort on your character just because class-specific armor and weapons tend to bear certain dominant resistance or damage type. You will probably unwillingly get physical glow on melee fighters and magical - on casters.

 

4) Going mono-elemental damage is more efficient than multi-elemental, so by having a lot of similar-type damage on your weapons, jewelry and socketable items you will win a distinct armor glow (not three, even not two).

 

5) its a good idea to concentrate on resistances against the damage type used by deadly monsters, I.e. fire and poison. Getting a third glow is associated with going multi-elemental or sacrificing damage rings for resistance-bearing rings and amulets.

 

Thus having three glows is generally a bad idea, except for pure casters who do not benefit from damage ring.

[Therion X 19]

Myles, this is awesome.

It's so much more understandable for me, than the german Description

 

There's just one Thing I have to disagree:

It is possible, to get a 4-Resistance-Glow.

 

Just for you, I'll rebuild it and tell you the "Trick"

I'll show you in a few Hours

 

edit:

 

Okay, haven't been "Hours"

 

By therionx at 2007-06-27

 

Here's a Link to a Pax-File, so you can check it out "live"

 

The Trick is this:

http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff165/S...ngofthedead.jpg

 

This Ring is for all Character Classes and gives two Glow Points at once.

When equipped into a Ring Slot, it gives one Extra Glow Point

 

The Wood Elf has an Amulett, that gives two Glow Points:

With this Amulett and the Sneaking Ring, she easily can get that 4-Resitance-Glow.

 

Looks good...but how useful?

Edited November 16, 2007 by gogoblender

[myles 2]

I know about the four glows with the unique rings, I just don't have one. So yeah show me the rings!

[Therion X 19]

*updated*

 

Should have started a new Post for that

[Sylph 0]

Wasn't this post also on SIF? I know I have seen it before,

Was that you aswell Therion? Respect

[Guest FrostElfTwin]

Wouldn't any ring with both damage and protection count twice?

 

Why would they need to be unique?

 

(oops. should've posted this elsewhere... admins! Please clean me up! (move to appropriate section!)

[myles 2]

Wouldn't any ring with both damage and protection count twice?

 

Why would they need to be unique?

 

(oops. should've posted this elsewhere... admins! Please clean me up! (move to appropriate section!)

 

Because only unique rings can have both damage and protection.

 

(And its fine for you to post here, I will move the comments when I do a big update - which may or may not happen )

[Guest FrostElfTwin]

I'm pretty sure in my shopping trips I've come across rings that have both damage and protection. They're not common, but they exist.

 

Or: I'm just going crazy. You pick!

[gogoblender 3,304]

Myles contributed the content of his guide to SacredWiki as a base for us to work with and with some help from the team it's up!

 

http://www.sacredwiki.org/index.php5/Armor_glow

 

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