Damage & Mitigation

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Like every other MMORPG, Asheron's Call 2 has in own damage and mitigation system.

Damage

Like many other MMOs there is a lot of information you need to know about damage: Sources, type, modifiers and more.

Sources

1. Melee Damage
2. Missile Damage
3. Magic Damage

Damage Types

1. "White" Damage
2. Fire Damage
3. Cold Damage
4. Poison Damage
5. Disease Damage
6. Lightning Damage

Damage Modifiers

1. Accuracy
2. Combat Delay
3. Damage Skills Buffs
4. Damage Weapons Buffs
5. Damage Potions
6. Damage Perks
7. Damage Items

Damaging Skills

Damage Skills List - Consult here all the Damaging skills available in AC2 (work in progress).

Damage Mitigation

Damage can be avoided, prevented or reduced by armor, skills, effects or items. All of these are called damage mitigation mechanics. Heals are not mitigation because they usually act after the damage landed, so they are a cure and not mitigation. All shields (armor, skills, buffs) are mitigation because they alter the damage before landing.

Evasion

• Evasion - Ability to evade attacks from others.

While Evasion may allow you 'evade' incoming attacks, it will not stop you from getting hit.

Natural Armor

Natural Armor its the defensive natural skill that any player has due to its buffs only. Players can only check they're natural armor value if naked.

These are the skills that increase your natural armor. Some are fellow wide and others are self only. Also some are like "auras" (toggle on/off) and others are temporary.
Most Temporary Buffs last for 120s and will reset in 5min (600s), so are usually nicknamed "2/5" (2 min on for each 5 min).
Note: Spells that stack, can still be overwritten by a skill of greater effect or Spell Craft.

For example: Shield Wall overwrites Encase, unless for some reason Shield Wall skill is very low, and would provide less armor than Encase.

Name	Tree	Race	Lv1	Lv50	Lv100	Target	Notes
- Shield Wall	Defender	Human	10	60	120	Fellow Toggle Buff	Doesn't Stack with others
- Encase	Magic Tree	Human	5	50	-	Fellow Toggle Buff	Doesn't Stack with others
- Impenetrability	Enchanter	Human	6	60	120	Item Buff	Half effect will stack with others
- Lumbering Might	Feral Intendant	Tumerok	10	100	150	Self Toggle Buff	Doesn't Stack with others
- Armor of Faith	Zealot	Tumerok	1	50	100	Self Toggle Buff	Stacks with others
- Thunderous Motion	Claw Bearer	Tumerok	20	200	-	Self 30 secs Buff	Stacks with others
- Earth Skin	Magic Tree	Lugian	6	60	-	Self 120s Buff	Doesn't Stack with others
- Fortify	Sage	Lugian	10	100	-	Self 120s Buff	Doesn't Stack with others
- Sigil of Valor	Templar	Empyrian	1	100	-	Self Toggle Buff	Doesn't Stack with others
- Protecting Sphere	Missile Tree	Empyrian	6	60	-	Self 120s Buff	Doesn't Stack with others
- Tasty Centipede	Melee (Drudge)	Drudge	6	60	-	Self 120s Buff	Doesn't Stack with others

Debuffs

As a simple definition, Debuffs are all spells that reduce one or more of the target Stats, either the Natural Armor, Attack Speed, Velocity, Defenses, Acuracy, etc.
In AC2 Debuffs are very important, mainly because AR and defenses influence a lot the damage characters can do to a mob.

Debuff Effects

Most skill effects that debuff enemy targets, will fall into one of these categories. It should be noted that the Physical and Elemental debuffs have identical effects.

Physical	Bleed (Health Damage Over Time ) Numb (Movement Speed Reduction ) Poison (Attack Speed Reduction ) Disease (Vigour Damage Over Time ) Shock (Instant Vigour Damage )
Elemental	Fire (Health Damage Over Time ) Cold (Movement Speed Reduction ) Water (Attack Speed Reduction ) Lightning (Vigour Damage Over Time ) Energy (Instant Vigour Damage )
Other	Stun (Unable to Move and Attack) Root (Unable to Move ) Knockback (Propels target backwards ) Armour Reduction (Increases Damage Taken) Skill Reduction (Decreases attack or defensive masteries)
PVE (monster only)	Mezz (Puts the target monster to sleep) Confuse (Monster acts randomly) Opening (A combo that hits for massive damage when monster is vulnerable) Taunt (Makes the monster think you've done more damage) De-Taunt (Makes the monster think you've done less damage)

Armor Debuffs

The most relevants for damage and the main reason people search debuffers for a fellow.
These debuffs reduce the AR from target. So a Debuff value of 100 means that the Mob will have a new AR value of his Base AR-100.

Name	Tree	Race	Lv50	Lv100	Lv150	Target	Notes	Compare with Goss (Lv50)
- Gossamer Flesh	Sorcerer	Human	170	225	280	Single	Doesn't Stack with others	100% (the top AR debuff)
Localized Destruction	Raider	Lugian	150	200	250	Area-of-Effect	Doesn't Stack with others	88% of Gossamer Flesh
- Rend Armor	Claw Bearer	Tumerok	150	200	250	Single	Doesn't Stack with others	88% of Gossamer Flesh
Ritual of Agony	Hieromancer	Empyrean	100	160	220	Single	Doesn't Stack with others	59% of Gossamer Flesh
- Tattercoat	Enchanter	Human	100	200	-	Single	50% effect Stacks with others	59% of Gossamer Flesh
- Vacuum	Sorcerer	Human	100	140	180	Area-of-Effect	Doesn't Stack with others	59% of Gossamer Flesh
- Subjugate	Missile Tree	Lugian	100	-	-	Single	50% effect Stacks with others	59% of Gossamer Flesh
- Lure	Melee Tree	Lugian	50	-	-	Single	50% effect Stacks with others. Also 50% self debuffs.	29% of Gossamer Flesh

Defenses Debuffs

Another important defuff that adds to the previous in getting more damage in. Reducing all defenses means more melee, magic and missile damage to the target.
These Debuffs reduce the Mastery of the target, so a Debuff value of 100 means that the target will loose 100 Mastery points of avoidance in all types of defenses.

Name	Tree	Race	Lv50	Lv100	Lv150	Target	Notes
- Expose	Claw Bearer	Tumerok	100	-	-	Single	reduces all defenses: melee, magic and missile

Attack Skills Debuffs

These are also important so the target does less damage. The most common ones reduce attack speed and they all share CD time. But there are also others that reduce the damage output by itself. Its like reducing the target mastery accuracy.

Damage Skill Debuffs

These Debuffs reduce the Mastery of the Target, so a Debuff value of 100 means that the target will loose 100 Mastery points of accuracy in all types of attacks.

Name	Tree	Race	Lv50	Lv100	Lv150	Target	Notes
- Ataxia	Sorcerer	Human	200	-	-	Single	reduces all attacks: melee, magic and missile
- Fling Sand	Claw Bearer	Tumerok	200	-	-	Single	reduces all attacks: melee, magic and missile
- Bloodloather	Enchanter	Human	40	100	-	Single	reduces all attacks: melee, magic and missile

Combat Speed Debuffs

These Debuffs reduce the Combat Speed of the Target, so a Debuff value of 50% means that the target will do half of the attacks per second it would normally do.

Name	Tree	Race	Lv50	Lv100	Lv150	Target	Notes
- Still Water	Sorcerer	Human	50%	-	-	Single	attack speed
- Anemia	Bounty Hunter	Human	50%	-	-	Single	attack speed
- Blinding Serum	Juggernaut	Lugian	50%	-	-	Single	attack speed
- Ritual of Torpidity	Hieromancer	Emperian	50%	-	-	Single	attack speed
- Barbed Stings	Hivekeeper	Tumerok	50%	-	-	Single	attack speed
- Envenom	Raider	Lugian	50%	-	-	Single	attack speed
- Poison Arrow	Missile Tree	Human	30%	-	-	Single	attack speed and run speed

Stuns

These are really a combat speed debuff of 50% and run speed of 50%, with added damage and sometimes a taunt.
They all last 10 sec and share cooldowns (1 min). This means neither will stack and only the first one will be applyed.

Name	Tree	Race	Attack Range	Weapon Type
- Victimize	Melee Tree	Tumerok	Melee	Shield attack
- Bash	Defender	Human	Melee	Shield attack
- Shield Bash	Melee Tree	Lugian	Melee	Shield attack
- Blindside	Templar	Empirian	Melee	Shield attack
- Interpose	Defender	Human	Melee	Main Weapon attack
- Stun	Melee Tree	Empirian	Melee	Main Weapon attack
- Disable	Zealot	Tumerok	Melee	Main Weapon attack
- Stunning Blow	Magic Tree	Lugian	Ranged - Magic	Main Weapon attack
- Headshot	Claw Bearer	Tumerok	Ranged - Missile	Main Weapon attack
- Ringing Ears	Raider	Lugian	Ranged - Missile	Main Weapon attack

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