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Veterancy (Skill) Icon   Veterancy

Mastery:

Soldier

Tier:

3

Skill Type:

Passive

Max. Level:

12

Cooldown:

none

Associated Skills:

none


Experience in some of the toughest theaters of the colonial wars has given you the ability to survive ordeals that would be fatal to others.

Notes[]

This skill, while seemingly subject to usual diminishing results, instead behaves almost linearly due to the way blocking. The threshold values of L1/L4 are thus of lower importance here.

With Y meaning the shield's block amount, e.g. 25% base block chance, +5% block gives 30% change, i.e. 0.3*Y damage blocked overall, but +35% gives you 60% block, i.e. 0.6*Y damage blocked, effectively doubling the blocking strength of a shield. The gain is of course more noticable on low-block-chance, high-block-amount shields, than on high-block-chance, low-block-amount ones.

Also, with -% requirement note that each additional reduction will get relatively more and more visible; still, the results are obviously very logarithmic here. If you're a shield build you'll probably want to max this skill anyway, otherwise getting L4 or L1 should suffice.

Skill Progression[]

Level +x% Constitution -x% Physique Requirement for Armor Increases Shield Block Chance by x%
1 8 3 5
2 15 5 10
3 20 8 14
4 24 10 18
5 28 12 20
6 32 14 22
7 35 15 24
8 38 16 26
9 40 17 28
10 42 18 30
11 45 19 32
12 50 20 35
Ultimate Levels
13 52 20 35
14 54 21 36
15 56 21 36
16 58 22 37
17 60 22 37
18 62 23 38
19 64 23 38
20 66 24 39
21 68 24 39
22 75 25 40





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Active Skills
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