I don't understand how armor works entirely.
I read the
How Armor Works thread, and thought I understood things.
I decided to do a test to see that I understood things and that their calculations are correct and that other information is correct...
So, I put on some Shogun. Just 3 pieces; Harness, Foot, and Shin; Other body parts are uncovered. Shogun protects at 10 versus Stab as well as some other areas for a total of (I think) 45.
I found a lone Sabakuma Young not too far from a turret and ran out and took one hit. (Sabakuma make a nice test because they run slow and I can assure only one hit easily) According to Entropedia dot info they do a maximum of (I think) 15 damage which is 100% stab. According to what I wrote down at the time, (I'm pretty sure this is right) I took 8.7 points of damage.
Then I ran to the turret to let it die and ran on to check the decay on the 3 Shogun parts.
I found decay on all 3 parts. .01, .02, and .01
Harness 38.24 to 38.23
foot 12.74 to 12.72
shin 12.74 to 12.73
This doesn't seem right at all. If the mob does a max of 15, then I should recieve a max of 5 if it hits me where I have armor and quite likely just 1. If it hits me where I do not have armor then I get the full hit, but the armor should not decay at all.
Shogun has a total protection of 45hp so it should have a minimum decay of .45pec, but what I am seeing is a decay of a full 1 pec on 2 parts and 2 pec on another part.
Here's what doesn't make sense:
Should I have decay on 3 pieces of armor for just 1 hit?
Should the decay on the armor be exact amounts of pec rather than fractional amount? (like .45)
(The method I used to calculate the pre- and post- value of the armor parts was to put the in the TT Sell window along with some sweat. They all had the values stated above without any sweat and also the same values with up to 999 sweat. Then on the one-thousanth sweat added, it tripped over to one higher value. So, I think that means that in all cases there was no fractioal hidden value.)
Does my method of determining exact value not work anymore?
There is certainly something that I'm not understanding, here.
I'll do it again if anyone thinks I should, but it's so simple I don't see how I could have messed it up. Misunderstanding on my part is more plausable than poor execution.
Any suggestions would be apprecieted.
--BillM