Dragoon Manifesto thoughts

[Sasaraixx]

SCH had its two-hour spells named a couple of weeks ago and BLU was told it is getting White Wind next update. I'm not sure if there are others, but nonetheless good news for your wyverns

[Camate]

While some fine tuning is still being performed, the stats for abilities to be introduced in the upcoming version update have been pretty solidified, so here is some follow up information.

Steady Wing (Lv. 95)
Creates a barrier that temporarily absorbs a certain amount of damage dealt to your wyvern.

The amount of damage nullified:
In instances where the wyvern’s HP is full: 20% of the wyvern’s max HP
In instances where the wyvern’s HP is not at max: 20% of the wyvern’s max HP + the amount of HP lost.

The amount of damage wyverns take will be reduced.

The amount of damage reduction is 40%.

Looking at the details of Steady Wing, some of you might be thinking, “Only 20%!?” However, please take into consideration that a constant 40% reduction in damage will now be applied to wyverns as well.

[Leonlionheart]

Holy crap, that's amazing.

[Limecat]

Hrm, interesting. The 40% damage reduction alone is going to help a lot.

[Babekeke]

So when wyvern is down to 1% hp it's 119% of max HP is nullified o.0

[Thala]

No, I'm pretty sure it works like this.

Reasonably presumed Wyvern max HP (for example purposes): 1200
Wyvern HP at 1%: 12
Formula under Steady Wing: 20% * (Max wHP + wHP lost)
Actual numbers: 0.2 * (1200 + (1200-12)) = 0.2 * 2388 = ~478

That's...quite nice actually, particularly on top of the other 40%.

Also, question. The ability description says absorbs, but your details say nullified. Which is it?

[Sekundes]

No, I'm pretty sure it works like this.

Reasonably presumed Wyvern max HP (for example purposes): 1200
Wyvern HP at 1%: 12
Formula under Steady Wing: 20% * (Max wHP + wHP lost)
Actual numbers: 0.2 * (1200 + (1200-12)) = 0.2 * 2388 = ~478

That's...quite nice actually, particularly on top of the other 40%.

Also, question. The ability description says absorbs, but your details say nullified. Which is it?

They most likely mean the effect absorbs it like you would say stoneskin absorbs something, not that it cures the wyvern.

[Thala]

Oh, hmm, I was thinking on per hit terms. Reading things over again, a Stoneskin effect sounds more accurate. Makes sense!

[Deadvinta]

I would EXPECT it to be more like Phalanx than Stoneskin, based on the description.

[Sekundes]

I would EXPECT it to be more like Phalanx than Stoneskin, based on the description.

I'm not really sure I quite understand how this conclusion was reached? Depending on duration, I wouldn't mind that but the way the description is worded could not possibly mean phalanx.

"The amount of damage nullified:
In instances where the wyvern’s HP is full: 20% of the wyvern’s max HP
In instances where the wyvern’s HP is not at max: 20% of the wyvern’s max HP + the amount of HP lost."

When your wyvern has max hp he gets 20% of his hp as a barrier that nullifies damage. Wyvern has about 1300 hp at level 90 iirc. 1300*.20=260 I would not believe for a moment that se would give anyone a 260 phalanx effect. Now the next part. If your wyvern does not have full hp then it gets the 260 base and then you add the amount of hp lost. Lets say he has 100 hp left. he's missing 1200 hp. 260+1200 is 1460. This amount is rather insane for a stoneskin effect as it is but as a phalanx effect my wyvern could solo god.