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Physical Light Damage = Physical Damage, affected by "Light Masteries"

Light Mastery Skills:
Devotion [passive]: 20% Light Damage boost @lvl 80
Hatred Strike [active]: 20% Light Damage boost for 15secs

Some have reported that boost provided by Hatred Strike does not affect physical skills, but i need to confirm myself too.

Afaik Light Mastery from Devotion skill affects all kind of knight light dmg.
But yes, the boost from Holy Strength affects only magic light dmg. idk though yet if is intended or not

Quoted from "achilleas1"

Physical Light Damage = Physical Damage, affected by "Light Masteries"

led light Mastery Skills:
Devotion [passive]: 20% Light Damage boost @lvl 80
Hatred Strike [active]: 20% Light Damage boost for 15secs

Some have reported that boost provided by Hatred Strike does not affect physical skills, but i need to confirm myself too.

Is it exactly work like this or there are some other factors on which it depend?

Erm, there is no such thing as Light physical damage, afaik. Any damage that has an element, Fire, Earth, Dark, Light, Water - are by definition magical.

True, but if you'd notice that each knight skill now has "% main hand weapon Physical Light Damage per second", then you'd see where that came from. From what I can tell it is supposed to be a weapon mastery of sorts, effecting only the knight skills that say that directly instead of the weapon itself. I'd like to think hatred strike is supposed to be like a temporary bonus to devotion, but unfortunately it didn't work out that way.

So, basically, we get a little bit of % increase to our skills, instead of a weapon mastery which would help our aggro more. Personally, I wouldn't mind an aggro mastery either, but I can see why they didn't implement it.

Having been a Knight since Ch1, I was so excited for the recent Knight changes. And they were really good. But Warden has already found it's role in the tanking world, as an "aggro" tank. Warden's don't bring as much to the table as knights do in terms of CC and party survival and support.

Back then, Wardens were useless, anyone remember?

Yeah and scouts were the only classes around haha. But either way, the light increase is still a damage increase in the long run I suppose, so maybe a bit more aggro? I like the changes, definitely an improvement, but if it's enough idk. I guess at least it wasn't a monstrous improvement that'll get nerfed in the next patch. Knock on wood.

Quoted from "KatalanOrk"

Erm, there is no such thing as Light physical damage, afaik. Any damage that has an element, Fire, Earth, Dark, Light, Water - are by definition magical.

katala u seem to be completely unaware of the knight changes.
- a m/k does magical light damage
- a knight does physical light damage

thats the reason they emphasize in the descriptions the term "PHYSICAL light dps". and this is increased by "devotion" passive "mastery" skill, although abit lame only 20% at lvl 80

I think completely unaware is a slightly over-blown, but yes, I don't play Knight nor am fully up-to-date with the current theory craft of the class.

Light damage is by definition magical, so what exactly the changes are seems extremely vague. If this refers to damage that works off physical damage and pattk vs. pdef, then it would just be physical damage, no Light factor. The only other chance would be that it also includes an element of Light elemental resistance - but it seems unlikely as elemental resistances are largely a forgotten (and useless) feature of Chapter One.

Logic would dictate that it must use either mdamage, mattk or the mdef of the target to meaningfully be called Light damage of any sort. Logic perhaps is not the best rule to apply to RoM, but it is the best that I have Testing should be fairly straightforward, for this at least, as it would not be a subtle difference. But that would be up to others to try, can't bothered myself

My sig, and indeed in my reply, did make completely clear that I was only talking about as far as I knew.

Well even before there were skills, that was pdef based, but they were somehow magical. It changes nothing in therms of DMG, but it have great impact on accuracy, so you have plenty of resists. As from light mastery have no idea how it works, but probably as skills are still pdmg, than it doesn't work at all, what Is still bad programming imo.