Item passive ability 87

[Kiexcolo]

Does this passive ability actually work?

 

87 - Does damage to person hitting wearer with a melee attack. Does amount of damage up to

ability strength.

 

Or do I have to set a very high value for it to see it work.

[Kelandon]

It does work, but there are a handful of caveats.

 

• The damage done seems to depend on the damage received by the party member; that is, if a creature does 40 damage to me, I can't do more than 40 damage back to it.
• It only applies to melee combat.
• The damage done appears to be magic damage, meaning that if you're fighting a magic resistant creature, the damage will be reduced (although I'm not 100% sure of this).
• For reasons I can't entirely ascertain, the damage also varies wildly based on other statistics, possibly including the relative levels of the PCs and the monsters.

But yes, I have gotten it to work with an excessively high amount of the ability (it_ability_str_1 = 100).

[Donald Hebb]

So basically, it's a magic damage-based attack that can deal no more than what the damage you received and the damage you can deal back in return dictate.

(There's a few of those items in Canopy if you want to try one out...)

[Kiexcolo]

Meaing its just Martyrs shield. But at strength 10 I can't seem to affect anything hiting me, oh well thanks for the info anyway.