bramble vs facets if i put 4x 5/5 poison facets in a 4 sockt armor ill get -20% Poison Resistance +20% Poison Skill Damage if you compare that against a bad bramble in pure poison effect ? does i get most poison dmg from the facet armor or the bramble ? u have 2 excuse my English...
I'd go even with a 25% Bramble over 4xPSN facet armor, the other mods are welcome also. If the game's calculations are as "basic" as possible, 4 facet armor would equal a +40% Bramble.
Well it is quite difficult to answer since it depends on the other equipment you have that can lower resist. And Bramble has some very nice other mods that could be useful to a Necro using poison that a 4 facet armour will lose. Here are some simple numbers to illustrate the point about Poison Damage. But assuming that you only have Trag ouls wing giving -25% resist the 4 facet armour will be better than Bramble against those poison immunes that Lower Resist can break. These monsters will be left with very high residual resistance to poison. Say P Nova does 2500 poison damage per shot to a monster without including either of the two armours. The basic damage is 2000 and Trangs gloves add 25% for 2500. The Trang Oul wing -25% would reduce the poison resistance to 75% and the 2500 would become 625 per Nova. A perfect 50% Bramble would increase the damage. The basic damage is 2000 and trang gloves plus bramble would increase this by 25% plus 50% = 3500. So the monster would take 875. The 4 facet armour would increase damage and reduce resistance. The basic damage would increase form 2000 by 25% plus 20% = 2900. The facets would mean the monster resistance would be reduced from 75% to 55%. The damage taken would be 2900 * 45% = 1305. So in this circumstance the facets do 50% more damage than a perfect Bramble. Including other lower resistance gear would change the relative worth of 4 facet armour over Bramble.
@Varg: Welcome Newcomer to The Darkness. Grab a brew :drink: and feel free to raise some corpses. For pure Poison Damage a 4 Facet would be better as illustrated bu JoJeck. But you will be missing out on some great mods.
ill go for the 100 life + 4x 5/5 poison then... are you guys sure that ill get more dmg from 4x facets ? i mean 4x 5/5 is so much cheaper then bramble = ohm+sur and with the facets you know what you get. bramble is 25-50% and 25% sucks big time. someone knows how muck beter ? in dmg...
It is not simple to answer your question. I did some sums above that shows it can be more damaging when you face poison immunes... which is just when you really want to do the damage. However, it depends on the exact type of necro you're building and your other equipment especially the amount it can reduce poison resistance. So if you'd like a definite answer post your necro build and the equiment you plan to use. Then we can make a comparison of 4 facet versus Bramble for you.
How about PvP?... i would guess that in that case it could be more desirable to use the facets just because it could help against those players that overstack poison resist... (-20% from facets, -25% from trangoul´s wings+claws+belt and a possible -45-55% from a death´s web socketed with another facet= total of -90 to -100 there)...
my necro skills: nova:max dagger:max Explosion:max lower res:10-15 eq: death web:48% +2 5/5 facet "died with my 50% +2 last week" maras soj or bk "i like bk more because hc" to belt to Wing 5/5 facet to Claws crown of ages 2x 5/5 facets annihilus 10 p&b skiller the BIG ? to me is the armor.... is it no biger differenc ill go for bramble.. i know nothing about res and poison dmg calculations...
Since it's HC, I think the other mods on Bramble outweight the possible higher damage on 4 facet armor.
bramble: Level 15-21 thorns = manage without "i think 8--)" +50% FHR = coa have 30% and if i get past 48% = 5 frames im satisfied.im no warrior. +25-50% To Poison Skill Damage =this is the BIG ?? +300 Defense = ok but not necessary Increase Maximum Mana 5% = manage without Regenerate Mana 15% = manage without +5% To Maximum Cold Resist = its ok but i manage without this one 2 Fire Resist +30% = but i almost have max res Poison Resist +100% = same as above +13 Life After Each Kill = manage without Level 13 Spirit of Barbs = manage without so what is so great with bramble ? is bramle as great as they say ? im a noob...dont know...only my second necro. for that reason,i ask you necro oldtimers about bramble..
So your basic equipment without armour has: total plus skills for P&B are 4 + 2 + 1 +1 + 2 + 1 + 1 + 10 = 22 total plus skills to curse are 2 + 2 + 1 + 1 + 2 + 1 + 1 = 10 so Lower Resist will be about -64 (not sure exactly) and you have 4 facets and Trang Gloves giving + 20 + 25% = 45% poison damage and total negative to monster poison resist is -48 -20 -25 = -93% PR I don't know exactly what damage your Poison Nova will do but it doesn't matter for the comparison since it is all relative. Taking the same assumptions used before and a notional 2000 damage Poison Nova we get Without any armour 2000 * (1 + 45%) = 2900 and monster has 7% Poision resist so 93% is done 2900 * 93% = 2697 With 50% Bramble 2000 * ( 1 + 95%) = 3900 and poison resist is still 7% 3900 * 93% = 3627 With 25% Bramble 2000 * ( 1 + 70%) = 3400 3400 * 93% = 3162 With 4 facet armour 2000 * (1 + 65%) = 3300 But the extra 20 negative resist now means that PR = -113% and the monsters resist would now be -13% 3300 * 113% = 3729 Therefore it is clear that the 2 armours are roughly the same when dealling with poison immunes with the 4 facet being better by 3729 / 3627 = approx 3% over a perfect Bramble and 3729 / 3400 = 9.6% over a worst Bramble. When dealing with basic monsters with no poison resistance the -100% cap on negative resistances comes into play if you use Lower Resist (assumed to have - 64%) In all cases the cap will be reached and poison damage will be doubled. So for a 50% Bramble Armour 2000 * ( 1 + 95%) = 3900 3900 * 200% = 7800 for 25% Bramble Armour 2000 * ( 1 + 70%) = 3400 3400 * 200% = 6800 and for 4 facet Armour 2000 * (1 + 65%) = 3300 3300 * 200% = 6600 Overall I would say that your other equipment is so good that it really doesnt matter much what you use Incidently the crown of ages has a horrible 174 Str requirement. I'm sure you could use another helm with lower requirements and hence have more life for your hc build. Good Luck.
k...bramble it is then. after i have seen all your calculation jojeck i settleld for bramble. just traded sur+ohm rune. offerd 2x storm+tr armor+shako so now when i sock my dusk shroud it will be anything between 25-50% its so unfair.. if the stats is 25% the bramble only is a expensive crapy bramble 8--( if i would sock me like honor or enigma...then i would know what i would get... but with bramble only have one word 4 it.. unfair thx anyway for all the god advices
