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As you can see, the icons i were attacked with were 2 air, 3 earth, 2 physical, 3 light.

I have used sink, which should have taken care of 99% of the lights and physical, and I used my cloudy wand of storm, which should have taken care of the 3 earths, and lastly, my Shiny Shoal Shell Shield should have taken all the air.

Yet for some reason, i still got 6 damage even after blocking all of the icons? Why?

I believe it largely has to do with you defence boost and sink would block 97.5% of all icons except for earth and air

ultrashadowlord1974 Wrote:I believe it largely has to do with you defence boost and sink would block 97.5% of all icons except for earth and air

right, well if i blocked like 100% of the icons, i would get no damage

Ummm well that is where fractional damage comes in...even though it shows that you blocked it all there had to have been fractional damage dealt

Shiny shoal shield blocks 2.7 of air, 2.7 water, 2.7 earth and .08-2 icons of physical

His strength boost is higher than your defence boost. You have to ignore the actual icons and concentrate on the damage he can do and the damage you can block.

If, for example, a 125 strength-booster uses a weapon that does five earth and five water, and a 35 defence-booster uses a leaf shield (which blocks five earth and five water) to try and stop it, the 35-booster will stop some of the damage, but the opponent is just so much stronger that he will overrun the little guy's shield. Basically, a 125-booster with a 10-icon weapon will do 30 damage. A 35-booster with a weapon that blocks 10 icons can block 15 damage... so 15 damage will still get through. (That is assuming that both use cautious attack; using other stances changes things.) Try playing around with the damage calculator.

Just like Amy to be a better member to explain things very clearly...I often times have a difficult time of putting things in simpler terms

ah ic, i always thought if u defended all icons, no damage would ever be done

well if you actually did block all icons but there is a thing called fractional damage and higher str boost vs defence boost

ultrashadowlord1974 Wrote:well if you actually did block all icons but there is a thing called fractional damage and higher str boost vs defence boost

Fractionals don't really have anything to do with the discussion at hand. A fractional icon is one that shows as a whole icon of damage, but only does partial damage. Take the Essence of Esophagor as an example; 10 icons are shown, but only 4.5 actual icons of earth/water are done, making the true total 9 icons.

You used sink when you had 22% left at power, right? Then it will only block partially, instead of the usual 97,5%, AND the strenght boost difference cran explained clearly.