Runes of Magic US / AU

Ok so Chmp/m 60 elite (EM Is how I will refer to it from now on) deals like at the very least THOUSANDS of points of damage to someone. At the very best its a 1 shot for millions of damage.

My first strange observation doesn't directly relate to the skill itself, but rather to an oddity that occurred while using the skill in siege. There was a druid I would like to name but am unable due to forum rules, that took 1 dmg from it. That's right 1 point of damage. Now I would like to clarify I AM NOT accusing hacks. But an immune would cause a miss effect, or absorb, maybe even resist in the log. But this hit, for 1 point of damage. I'm assuming its a massive damage reduction. For reference the druid was d/wd. I am aware of the 99% damage reduction they get. But that means 100 damage did 1 point after reduction applied. So even at 300k of damage of EM. 300,000 at 99% dmg reduction = 3,000 damage still. How on earth they got it to 1 damage exactly, I am clueless to. But that's not the weird part. My next skill, which was a follow up intsa rune pulse hit for, YOU got it. 1 DMG exactly again. So, I'm thinking it was an absorb (like) thing? The druid died about 3 seconds later from a m/wd flam spamming him. I'm just curious is it possible.

I don't mean to sound like a QQ'er. So don't take it that way, I think I already know how it was done; but it would require more dmg% reduction. Which I didn't know if the druid had as they had full visible buff limit (and then some). Just something to be aware of on druids from now on.

Second observation, enough PDEF will reduce EM damage SIGNIFICANTLY. Through some testing on my opponents. If I break their pdef, its game over. But there is a chance I don't break their pdef. In which case my millions of damage EM goes down to about 78k, now that's a lot still but its not gonna 1 shot you. So enough PDEF will overcome the massive dmg that is caused. Which should be fairly easy to achieve if you consider that chmp/m HAS to be in shield form to use the skill which reduces strength. So unless your wearing T10 crazy statted gear, I doubt most champions in shield form will break 150k, even 100k is stretching it a lil, in a FULL burn. So that's only like over 300k pdef needed. Mages sorry, rouges you to. But for tank and healer combos like p/k. EM shouldn't be hitting you that hard.

Am I wrong on observation 2? Because I've seen people survive my EM's as healers and tanks with lots of pdef.

EM also seems to be level based to some degree, same gear on my 'opponnent' but 5 level difference, (pdef was broken both times,) same buffs on me same buff on him. And the damage went up like 25%. So could level difference play a factor, in why PVE EM sucks but in PvP its ok?

tl;dr

EM is OP, but pdef can greatly reduce DMG.

Interesting about the mdmg part, as I mentioned they were a wd/d, whether or not the pdef was broken I haven't a clue. Could go either way. I'd also like to mention that the skill CANT be used if the chmp/m is under 50% hp. So the best way to counteract one is to have a r/m silence them then dps their face off it looks like. (r/m cause of OP hide xD).

Again just observations, I really cant speak on much in the way of pdeff vs pa etc... but I thought it was 1 pa break 2 pdef. 5 seems a little high TBH. Since 350k Pdef seems to be enough for me to not take damage from most rouges in siege. Unless were talking like those one in t8 gear with full orange stats.

So ideally were looking for a chmp/m with a 2-H staff as a weap? since it deal mdmg? With lots of PA?

Or are we looking for a chmp/m sattted full pa and lots of PDMG, and at the very end after all the calculations using pdmg does the pdmg get converted to mdmg? Kind of confusing?

Your last post sounded a little aggressive at the end, I assume you didn't mean it that way though. Thank you for clarifying that the mdmg conversion happens at the end of the calculation. I was confused by that until post #4 in the thread (one above this one).

I was simply trying to understand how it worked, and list some of my observations of the skill.

'Assume a rogue as 120k patk.
With 350k pdef, you reduce damage of this player by 83%.
with 601k pdef, you reduce the damage of this player by 90%.'

I would like to know where those numbers come from? Observation based or hard code? And is there a table that lists how to calculate that, cause that is very helpful. Literally the first time in years I have heard/seen of this, must be blind/dumb on my part, since this seems to be common knowledge. (No sarcasm as it could be taken that way.) Seriously the first time I've seen this.

'There's no way for a player to actually know "when" the conversion occurs, only that it does in fact happen.'

Well thanks ROM! In any case I apologize for overthinking the MDMG thing, I assume that's the bucket you put me in. (If not I apologize for my stupidity to D I am aware that the exact position of MDMG conversion can't be determined of the EM calculation. But we could take guesses if we did some math. (For example if hammers do more dmg then staves that means the weapon damage is calculated before conversion etc...)

In any case thanks for clarifying some things for me.