Thread:ClariS/@comment-3017217-20141026134417/@comment-1330314-20141029202022

But that simply raises the issue of which equations are statements and which follow logically from previous statements. You could set any variable to any other variable if it suited you, but that would produce nothing of worth. The reason I use equivalence signs ("<=>") is to show that the two equations are logically equivalent and interchangeable, and each equation can follow from the other.

It also makes no sense to assimilate D2 to H2 and D1 to H1. D1 is damage taken after reductions, i.e. after applying armor and magic resistance, which effective health is about. D2 is damage taken before reductions, which would be closest to raw health without the associated resistances and therefore H1. It is this level of disorganization and confusion that has been bogging down a discussion that, by all rights, should have been resolved in one paragraph.