Confused by Inner Beast

[Virin]

Tried to search for something about this but didn't see anything. Decided to add War to my list of jobs to level and finally got inner beast. So if you read the tool tip it's a 300 potency attack that ignores defiance. cool. additionally it absorbs 300% of the damage done by it as HP. sounds cool.

So I went out to test it while waiting on stuff to do and..

You use Inner Beast.
 The dung midge swarm takes 225 damage.
 You absorb 380 HP.
You use Inner Beast.
 The cork bulb takes 189 damage.
 You absorb 167 HP.


In what world is that 300%?

[Omegaone]

I'm guessing there are resists to it's dmg type. Couldn't say for sure just throwing that out there.

[Garnatian]

I believe it's designed in such a way that you cannot get more Health back than the remaining HP on the enemy you are attacking.

[Virin]

Best I have seen in my tests

You use Inner Beast.
 The jungle coeurl takes 223 damage.
 You absorb 484 HP.

Still not 300%
I can see the resist idea but that should count on the actual damage portion not on the absorb after the fact.

[Virin]

I believe it's designed in such a way that you cannot get more Health back than the remaining HP on the enemy you are attacking.

Thank you now it tests out right.


You use Inner Beast.
 The jungle coeurl takes 220 damage.
 You absorb 660 HP.

[Giantbane]

I believe it's designed in such a way that you cannot get more Health back than the remaining HP on the enemy you are attacking.

Which is dumb, I don't see how it makes any sense for balance reasons.

And it's not even a limitation of battle system. DRG's Life Surge, even though worded the same doesn't work that way. Go use it on lvl 1 creatures outside of town. You'll get back something like 50 for an Inner Beast, but you'll get the full amount back from your Life Surge attack, regardless of what you hit or how much life it has left.

You may note that the result is not worded the same.
Inner Beast: you absorb 51 hp
Life Surge: you recover 365 hp

They should change it to use the Life Surge method of "absorption" instead of the stupid one that exists now.