Damage Reduction from armor skill

[flushfire]

I tried searching but didn't find any info on this so I did some testing myself. I dunno if this is already present in the boards somewhere, anyway just sharing. I took a hex editor and noted DR change with light armor and heavy armor skills. quality of armor seems irrelevant as long as its the appropriate type. anyway here are the results (I omitted the levels where there was no change in DR):

Seems like DR from Light Armor is 30% LA for Head, 30% LA for Torso and 20% LA for Legs, always rounded down. For Heavy Armor it seems it's 50%, 50% and 30%. Looking at the table you get the best DR per point ratio every 10 levels for both skills.

Also, hoping a Skill Effects thread (similar to the Stat Effects thread) is put up.

[Krafen]

That is some useful information. Thanks for going to the trouble to derive it.

[Slarty]

Agreed, thanks for sharing it. I take it there is no DR for other armor slots? (feet, cloak, belt, etc... and shield with shield skill?)

[flushfire]

yes only the head, torso and leg armor counts. I've been trying to find if there are other factors that affect DR & haven't really found any so far, seems like only skill level counts.

btw, is DR percentage?

edit: oh wow this sucks. did some more testing with light armor & DR. I had 4 skeleton archers attack me while having 0 DR, 24 DR, 50 DR & 96 DR. based on the combat log it seems that DR is a % chance to reduce damage by half (had the same message "[damage modifiers]: damage halved by damage reduction" no matter how high the DR, just the frequency changed) If so then armor skill completely sucks in comparison to dodge. can anyone confirm this?

[cal1s]

.:[like]:.

thanks for sharing ...

[Slarty]

Ewwww. That sucks.

Well, there goes all possible motivation to buff DR with high armor skills + Stoneskin. Bleh.

This is very useful information though -- thanks for sharing it, as well!