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Shadow Priests are mostly brought to raids to buff the damage of your shadow-damage dealing allies through Shadow Weaving, so you never need more than one Shadow Priest in your raid. Your raw damage was not as good as what a Warlock could do, even when we take away the inhibitions of threat and Mana, on top of taking up too many debuff slots in. Shadow Auspicious Spirits damage reduced to 70% (was 100%). This trait/talent whatever is usually top 1 or 2 on dmg meter, gj blizz nerfing sp and boomie and still not touching ww/uh/fire mage the game is getting wor. Every ability, power, or spell belongs to one of seven magic schools which define what can be done to absorb, immunize against, or resist it. Your resistance against five of these schools are displayed in your character information. The magic schools are also used as damage types, but even abilities that don't cause damage have schools.

WoW Classic General Discussion. Dragomear-kelthuzad 2019-07-27 19:57:50 UTC #1. Yeah, prior to 1.9 Lupos’ basic white damage would do pure shadow damage which was what they changed. Any special ability with non-physical damage still does non-physical damage in 1.12. It’s just the basic attacks. Learn about Disc Priest Spells and how to use them. Heals, Buffs, Utilities and cooldowns. Updated for 8.0.1 (Battle for Azeroth - BfA).

• The boss hits about 50k and crits for 100k, but this damage is severely reduced by soul link. The unending resolve glyph is also super useful (passive 10% dmg reduc). I just ran circles around him with KJC to stay out of all of the AOE and popped ember tab for healing. Healthstone with glyph could also be useful, but not necessary at my ilvl (526).
• Sorry to start yet another WoW thread, but I’ve tried finding this info elsewhere and I can’t find anything useful. Maybe one of the WoW hardcore here can help me out. What, exactly, does an item that says “+3 shadow spell damage” do for me? Or one that say “+9 healing spells”? I mean obviously those are boosts to my spells.

Armor reduces physical damage done against you by a certain proportion. It depends entirely on the level of the monster (or player) hitting you and your own armor. Your level doesn't matter. By hovering your mouse over Armor on your Character screen, you can see the percentage value of this reduction for damage done by enemies that are at your current level. This percent reduction will actually fall as soon as you gain a level if you're still wearing the same armor. You haven't lost anything, it's merely showing you that your armor isn't as effective against monsters one level higher than you used to be.

The most important thing to remember about armor is: An X% increase in armor means an X% increase in armor's contribution to the amount of damage you can take.

The formula for the base armor value is:

Gear armor is the armor value from the gear you are wearing. Magic armor is the extra armor from buffs such as scrolls, mage armor, armor kits etc.

Note that talents which give a percentage bonus to armor (like druid bear form) do not include magic armor in their boost to the armor rating. This is especially important for druids since bonuses received from armor kits, sets and green effects in general are not affected by Bear, Moonkin, or Tree Form or armor-increasing talents.

For enemies from level 1 to 59, the reduction to physical damage, as a percentage, is given by the following formula:

For enemies from level 60 and up, the reduction to physical damage, as a percentage, is given by the following formula:

For level 80 and raid bosses, this simplifies to:

Note that the maximum damage reduction is capped at 75%. The 15232.5 and 16635 numbers in the denominator are often confused. The constant is based on the attacker's level, not the target's level. Use 15232.5 for your attacks (outgoing) and 16635 for damage received.

For level 83 bosses, as described below, armor caps at 49905. The Diminishing Returns on armor as you approach the cap are rather harsh; both functions are graphed below.

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Damage Soak

Although the character sheet tooltip gives the amount of damage that the armor absorbs, it is more useful to think of how much more damage the player can take.

In general, the armor reduction formula can be written as

If the enemy is lower than level 60, X = 85 * Enemy_Level + 400. If the enemy is level 60 or higher, X = 467.5 * Enemy_Level - 22167.5 Therefore, the amount of damage that the player takes after their armor's damage reduction is applied is:

So the ratio of damage dealt to damage taken is:

Therefore, the increase in the amount of damage the player can take compared to having no armor at all, as a percentage, is:

Therefore, an X increase in armor (compared to 0 armor) means an 100% increase in the amount of damage the player can take. e.g. For a level 70 enemy, X = 10557.5. So a player with 10557.5 armor attacking a level 70 enemy would be able to take 100% more damage. A player with 31672.5 armor would be able to take 300% more damage than a player with 0 armor (which is the maximum).

Armor required to get X% damage reduction

To calculate the amount of armor needed for maximum mitigation against a lvl 59 or below enemy, one can use the following formula:

Thus a lvl 59 character who wants to achieve 75% reduction vs. lvl 59 mobs would need 16245 AC. Note that this changes beyond lvl 59, as the formula to calculate damage reduction for levels 60 and up requires much more armor to get the same mitigation. Despite the much higher armor values required for 75% reduction at levels 70 and higher, it is currently possible for a well-geared druid to reach this point (see this page).

Or a more general formula. The amount of armor needed for a specific reduction is:

Against a level 59 and less:

Against a level 60 and up:

Armor required to get 50%, 60%, 70% and 75% damage reduction against lvl 60, 63, 70 and 73 mobs.

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That EXTRA armour that I need - General formulae

This section is written to answer the question 'What's the amount of extra armour that I should add in order to gain extra 5% or 7.3% or 27.4% or whatever EXTRA percentage that I wish to gain in damage reduction?'.

The most straightforward/obvious solution is to use the 'armour-damage-reduction' formulae given in the section above. However, there is an exact general formula to find the answer for each case - either against a level 59 or lower mob or against a level 60 or higher mob. The formulae are given below the example of straightforward solution.

Example of straightforward solution: (you may skip this part)

If your current total amount of armour provides you with 35% in damage reduction and you wish to add extra 10% to get a total of 45%, what is the amount of extra armour that you should add?

Against a mob with level no higher than 59, you could do the following subtraction:

Extra armour = new armour - current armour

'Current armour' is the total amount of armour that you currently possess. 'New armour' is the new total amount of armour that you want to have in order to gain that extra percentage in damage reduction.

From the previous section, 'new armour' = (400 + 85 * Enemy Level ) / ( 100 / 45 - 1) and obviously you get the value 'current armour' by summing the amount of your equipments armour. Then, by doing the subtraction you get the amount of 'extra armour' you need in order to gain extra 10% in damage reduction.

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Note though, that you need to calculate your current percentage in damage reduction by solving the armour formula with your current armour value.

The general formulae

Before looking at the formulae, please note the following representations:

A = current amount of armour
= extra amount of armour that you need to add to your current amount of armour to get certain extra percentage in damage reduction
R = current percentage in damage reduction provided by your equipments, buffs, etc
= extra percentage in damage reduction that you wish to add to your current percentage in damage reduction
L = enemy's level

Please also note that these formulae are derived based on the equations given in the previous section which are still lacking in citation.

Against a level 59 or lower mob:

Against a level 60 or higher mob:

These formulae are in fact more general than the formulae given in the section above. In addition to using these general formulae to calculate difference, if you take R to be 0, these general formulae are in fact the same as the formulae given in the previous section.

Example:

From the table in the previous section we have the following figures:

If your current armour provides 50% in damage reduction against a level 63 mob, you have 7285 armour. However, if you want to add another 25% on top of your 50% to get 75%, you'll need 21855 armour. So the EXTRA amount of armour that you need to add is 21855 - 7285 = 14570.

Let's see if we can get the same extra amount of armour (14570) by using the formula given above (note: please punch the numbers into your calculator carefully or use wolfram alpha). For level 60 or higher mob, we have:

A = 7285
R = 50
= 25
L = 63

Proofs

Warning: college level calculus is required.

There are only two steps in each of the proofs.

1. Differential
2. Integrate both sides with the following limits:

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