Thread:ClariS/@comment-3017217-20141026134417/@comment-1330314-20141030215201

Ntoulinho wrote: Damage Reduction = 0.9900990099 ^ Resists

Let's test that little formula of yours. I have exactly 100 armor, which according to your formula would give me ~0.3697 damage reduction. Whether this is a percentage or a decimal ratio is irrelevant, because the result is wrong: 100 armor gives you exactly 50% damage reduction against physical damage.

Your formula makes no sense on multiple levels: aside from the fact that it has no relation to any actual damage reduction formulas, it also causes you to become squishier if you build resists: you're multiplying a number between 0 and 1 by itself, which means that the higher the exponent, the smaller the result.

"Moonleaf said so" is also not a valid argument. Perhaps he said that resistances had diminishing returns, and perhaps he looked at how it affected damage reduction, but as established above that is not the correct metric by which you measure diminishing returns here. Not only has your own formula been disproven, but it's also been proven that resistances have no diminishing returns. Continuing to argue will not improve on anyone's opinion of you here.