Shield

[Vampirate]

Since each level of shield reduces damage to the shield by 25%, does that mean the shield skill maxes out at 4?

 

[Cataphract]

Hehe, good question i never thought about that.

 

[Flaming Eyes]

No, I have reached level 8, but I never thought about it... hmmm

 

[Elias_Maluco]

And you shield still gets damaged?

 

[Flaming Eyes]

Yes, still is damaged, but not always, and when is damaged, takes damage of 1.

 

[ThVaz]

Maybe each level reduce a further 25%. This is, at first level you reduce the damage in 25%, the next reduce more 25% of the last level, or, 56.25% of the damage received for a person who havent the skill. Hope I made this clear

 

[DaLagga]

I think it works something like this. Lets just say an attack would ordinarily deal 100 damage to your shield at shield level 0. At level 1, it will inflict 75 damage(blocks 25%). Now, if you put a second point into it, it will reduce that 75 damage by another 25%, meaning at level 2 that attack will deal 56 damage (75 x .25 = 18.75, 75 - 18.75 = 56.25) to your shield. Here's a table.

Shield 0 = 100% of damage dealt directly to shield
Shield 1 = 75%
Shield 2 = 56.25%
Shield 3 = 42.15%
Shield 4 = 32.05%
Shield 5 = 24.04%
Shield 6 = 18.04%
Shield 7 = 13.5%
Shield 8 = 10.1%

Or, you could look at it in terms of percentage of the damage negated based on level, like this.

Shield 0 = 0% of damage negated
Shield 1 = 25%
Shield 2 = 43.75%
Shield 3 = 57.85%
Shield 4 = 67.95%
Shield 5 = 75.96%
Shield 6 = 81.95%
Shield 7 = 86.5%
Shield 8 = 89.9%

I'm not entirely sure that this is how it works, just my best guess...but it seems correct. Basically, the more points you assign to the skill, the less effective the skill becomes with each additional point. IMO, its a waste to put more than 3 or 4 points into this skill, since a steel shield (800hp) with 4 points into the skill basically has more than 2400hp!

 

[Sir Prince]

Interesting.

 

[Hardclyff]

Beep ... ... Beep ... ... Beep ... Beep ... Beep Beep BeepBeepBeepeepeepeep

...went my sarcasm meter.

 

[holybandit]

Waste of skills....

 

[Daimyo]

Most useless skills:

1-Prisoner handling
2-Shields
3-Tactics

 

[sharp_spike]

tactics is important.it increases the number of soldiers at the beginning of war.

 

[WhoCares]

tactics is important.it increases the number of soldiers at the beginning of war.

And that's why I do not increase tactics as I want to be challenged by the enemy and don't want to win by sheer numbers.
Prisoner Management is required when you ever want to have Borcha join your club. And it can be a good source of credits early in the game.

 

[sharp_spike]

i don't like two heroes in my party.so now i only take borcha.marnid is powerless

 

[katank]

Marnid give you trading skill. Increase tactics, surgery, etc. for the two heroes so you can get more combat related skills.

Shield is pretty useless. I have a reinforced steel shield and it has never even come close to being broken.